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Fwd: RE: Follow up requests from UK re: extradition From To Date 2019/09/05 09:18 Subject: Fwd: RE: Follow up requests from UK re: extradition TEXT.htin, - 30.08.19 - Further Report - Epstein.pdf, 5 Attachments: - 12.08.19 Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan - BBC New....pdf, II - 14.08.19 Federal prison staffing_ Union and lawmakers have long war....pdf >» Good afternoon all, 9/3/2019 2:19 PM > » We are assisting the AUSA's in an extradition request out of the UK and have to respond to the below points. Most of the response will be that we cannot comment on an open investigation. However, there are points to be made as to some of the statements (new wardens, post orders and training, staffing, inmate numbers, sanitation and pest control, alleged racial unrest, and how psychology staff interview suicide watch inmates). Is anyone aware of stock language Central Office has used to address these inquiries? Thank you, Supervisory Staff Attorney CLC New York Metropolitan Correctional Center 150 Park Row New York, New York 10007 f. pi= >>>' (USANYS)" < > 9/3/2019 1:51 PM > » I forgot to attach the additional report and news articles. From: Sent: Tuesda Se•tember 3 2019 1:49 PM To: Cc: (USANYS) Subject: Follow up requests from UK re: extradition Hi MI (USANYS) I'm sure you're inundated with inquiries right now, so I apologize for adding to your load. You may remember that we had consulted with you and BOP HQ regarding conditions at the MCC and M DC in connection with defendant Jabir Motiwala's opposition to extradition from the UK. Following Jeffrey Epstein's death, Motiwala has filed an additional report by former-warden and attached news articles RArr Page 7941 EFTA00057899

OUVUL LI IC 1V11UILIVI0 CL LI IC IVILL. The attorneys in the UK handling the extradition have asked for our response. They recognize that we may not be able to address all of their questions in light of ongoing investigations, but is there any information we can provide with respect to the following (or could you let us know the proper person/people to talk to)? i. With regards to the warden of the MCC and two staff members whom are said to have been reassigned since the death of Mr Epstein, are you able to confirm that their roles have been filled with suitable alternatives? In particular please provide any information about the knowledge and experience of the new warden that you are able to. [page 1, Report, dated 22 August 2019] Is it possible to comment on the decision to take Mr Epstein off suicide watch and whether either, that decision was justified in the circumstances or if considered to be the wrong decision, that new measures are now in place to ensure any mistakes are not repeated. Please detail any new measures on this particular issue now in place if you are able to. [page 2, Report, dated 22 August 2019] Can you provide any explanation as to why Mr Epstein did not have a new inmate sharing his cell in the Special Housing Unit ("SHU") on 9 August 2019 after his other cellmate was moved? Do you accept that there should have been someone sharing his cell in light of his recent apparent suicide attempt? If so, have any new protocols been put in place to ensure this does not happen again? If you do not accept that this occurred or cannot comment on this directly, what general measures are in place to ensure people who have been moved to the SHU following a suicide attempt share a cell with others where possible? [page 2, Report, dated 22 August 20191 iv. Is it correct that the two correctional officers due to be carrying out half-hourly checks on Mr Epstein did not carry out any check upon him for a period of several hours before he was discovered in his cell and were instead sleeping? If you accept this is correct what steps have been taken, if any, to prevent this occurring in future? If you do not accept that this occurred or cannot comment on this directly, what general measures are in place to monitor those who have been moved to the SHU following a suicide attempt, and how is it ensured that those measures are safely carried out by staff members? [page 2/3, Report, dated 22 August 2019] v. Is it correct that the correctional officers concerned falsified records in regards to the checks they should have carried out? If you accept this is correct what steps have been taken if any to prevent this occurring in future? If you do not accept that this occurred or cannot comment on this directly, what general measures if any are in place to ensure correctional officers do not falsify records and carry out their duties as required with regards to those who have been moved to the SHU following a suicide attempt? [page 3, Report. dated 22 August 20191. Page 7942 EFTA00057900

VI. Ms , as well as a number of news reports, state that of the two staff members assigned to monitor Mr Epstein, one of them was not usually a corrections officer but rather was employed by the warehouse and had volunteered to work an extra shift. If you accept this is correct, do you consider it to be appropriate to have such staff members carrying out that type of task and if so what measures are in place to ensure they are able to carry out that particular role safely? If you do not accept that this occurred or cannot comment on this directly, what general measures if any are in place to ensure staff members who do not usually work as correctional officers carry out the task of monitoring those who have been moved to the SHU following a suicide attempt in a safe manner? [page 3, Report, dated 22 August 2019] vii. In a news article, it is said that the BOP had tried to address staffing shortages "in part by using a practice called augmentation to temporarily assign employees who aren't corrections officers to staff posts intended for detention guards". Do you accept that this occurred at the MCC? If so, is this practice still in place and what general measures if any are in place to ensure staff members who do not usually work as correctional officers are able to safely carry out the work of correctional officers, (for example do they receive special training on security or monitoring prisoners considered to be a suicide risk). [CNN Politics Website, "Union and lawmakers have long warned of 'dire' federal prison staffing shortages", 14 August 2019] viii. Ms , as well as a number of news reports, state that of the two staff members assigned to monitor Mr Epstein, one of them (the corrections officer) had been working overtime and the other staff member was in the midst of an 80 hour week. Do you agree that many of the correctional officers at the MCC are required to work 60 - 70 hour weeks and if so what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that the prison is still run safely and suicidal prisoners are properly monitored? [page 3, Report, dated 22 August 2019] ix. Ms further states that the MCC is currently operating with less than 70% of the needed correctional officers. Do you accept that the MCC is operating with less than 70% of the needed correctional officers and if not, how would you describe the current staffing levels? If you agree that the MCC is 70% staffed, what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that the prison is still run safely and suicidal prisoners are properly monitored? [page 3, Report, dated 22 August 2019]. x. Ms states that the MCC was designed to house 474 inmates but that on the day of Mr Epstein's death its population was 763. Do you agree with those figures, and if so is the prison able to safely house that sized population, and what measures, if any, are in place to deal with a prison population of that size and ensure the conditions they are housed in remain humane? [page 14, Report, dated 22 August 2019]. vi Mc RAirrl ctatpc the fnllnwino with rovArrIc ten the canitatinn rnnilitinric at MCC• Page 7943 EFTA00057901

0 "Three current MCC Staff Members very recently described to me the current sanitation conditions at the facility. One stated, "The facility is so disgusting it's like a prison in a third-world country. Cleaning supplies are not issued on a regular basis!" The individual further advised, "Pest Control is horrible and ineffective, rats, mice and bugs are everywhere!' Another Correctional Officer told me, "There are mice and bugs everywhere including inmates' cells." This information is consistent with my Court testimony on July 3, 2019, and my assessment in Paragraph 20 of my Declaration in the case of Mr. Motiwala. Further, it corroborates the many news reports, regarding the "rodent-infested MCC." Do you have any comment to make on those observations? [page 15, Report, dated 22 August 2019]. xii. Ms further states: "On a different, yet equally concerning topic, an MCC Correctional Officer advised me this past week, that there is blatant racial discord within the institution, especially amongst Correctional Officers. I did not witness this when I was Warden at MCC, and my contact advises it began a short time following my departure." Do you have any comment to make on those observations? (page 15, Report, dated 22 August 2019]. xiii. One news article referred to the fact that there was only one psychiatrist shared between the MCC and the other federal prison in New York, and a "handful of psychologists on the staff". It further states that conversations between psychologists and individuals on suicide watch occur "through a slot in the door" rather than in person. Is it still the case that there is a single psychiatrist shared between the MCC and the M DC? Do you agree with the characterisation that there are a handful of psychologists and consultations are carried out through a slot in the door? Have any changes or improvements been made to psychiatric and psychological care provision and staffing in the wake of the death of Mr Epstein or are any planned in the near future? Do you have any comment to make on the observations made generally? [News article "Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan", 12 August 2019] Our response is due to the UK September 16. Thank you so much, Assistant United States Attorney Page 7944 EFTA00057902

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August 22, 2019 Report of Suicide of High Profile Inmate at MCC New York Provided by at the request of Amirah Ajaz, Solicitor, ABV Solicitors Jeffrey Epstein, a high profile, pre-trial inmate, Southern District of New York, was found unresponsive in his cell at MCC New York on August 10, 2019, at approximately 6:40 am. A short time later, he was taken to an outside community hospital where he was pronounced dead. His death was ruled been a suicide by hanging following an autopsy which was performed by the New York Medical Examiner. Two investigations, to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Office of Inspector General(OIG), were ordered by United States Attorney General (AG), William Barr and are currently ongoing. At a press conference held on Monday, August 11, 2019, AG Barr stated, "the Department of Justice is learning about those "deeply concerning" irregularities at the MCC New York. I was appalled - and indeed the whole Department was - and frankly angry to learn of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner." AG Barr further commented, "Mr. Epstein's death raises serious questions that must be answered." On Tuesday, August 12, 2019, AG Barr directed the Warden of MCC be reassigned to the Bureau of Prisons Northeast Regional Office and two other MCC employees, who had been assigned to Mr. Epstein's housing unit (9-South-Special Housing Unit), were placed on Administrative Leave. A Justice Department spokesperson stated "Additional actions may be taken as the circumstances warrant." On August 19, 2019, AG Barr appointed a new Director and new Deputy Director to the Bureau of Prisons. The Acting Director will return to his regular duties. While it is a positive step to have these top positions filled, the concerns within the prisons remain unchanged. Chronology of Events July 23, 2019 - Law enforcement sources state Epstein was found unconscious in his jail cell with injuries to his neck. It was not clear if the injuries were self-inflicted as a result of a 1 EFTA00057908

suicide attempt or if he had been the victim of an assault. He was placed on Suicide Watch. July 29, 2019 - Epstein is reportedly removed from Suicide Watch and returned to the Special Housing Unit (SHU), where he is placed with a cellmate. It is common practice to place inmates whose suicide watch has ended in a cell with another inmate, rather than to be housed alone. This provides some measure of safeguard. Termination of a Suicide Watch can only be made by a trained member of the Psychology Department. Dr. Chief Psychologist, MCC New York, would have been involved in the decision to terminate Epstein's July 2019, Suicide Watch. Dr. provided a Declaration o the Court in the case of Motiwala. In this case, because of Epstein's notoriety, it would not be uncommon to have several levels of review, to include the Warden's input and possibly officials at a higher level. Details outlining the reasons Epstein's Suicide Watch terminated are uncertain. In my experience, inmates are not kept on suicide watch indefinitely. A typical suicide watch would normally last two to four days. If an inmate is persuasive, they can formulate an argument to talk their way off of a suicide watch and manipulate the Psychologist into believing they no longer pose a danger to themselves. August 9, 2019 - Thousands of documents are unsealed in Court in connection with a defamation case against a woman accused of recruiting underage girls for Epstein. These documents revealed the names of dozens of high-profile individuals who were connected to Epstein. They allegedly indulged in parties with him and flew on his private plane. These documents included allegations of impropriety against several of these "prominent individuals." At some point on Friday, August 9, 2019, Epstein's cellmate was moved to another location or or transferred. For reasons the investigators are still exploring, he did not receive a new cellmate. This contradicts usual protocol as Epstein should not have been in his SHU cell alone, having recently been removed from Suicide Watch. The Washington Post reported in an article published on August 11, 2019, the Correctional Officers assigned that night to the SHU Unit, had not checked on Epstein for several hours before he was found hanging in his cell Saturday morning. This was just 2 EFTA00057909

one in a series of missteps in the hours leading up to his death. The New York Times and Associated Press reported the Correctional Officers slept through the 30-minute required checks and then falsified records to cover that up. They cite their source as Law Enforcement Officials. Surveillance video reviewed following the incident is said to have confirmed this information. Procedure and Post Orders require Officers to conduct physical checks of all inmates every 30 minutes. It has been reported by several sources that these 30-minute checks were not being conducted by either of the two staff members working that morning shift in SHU unit. Additionally, the Union President of MCC advised both staff were working overtime and one of the individuals did not normally work as a Corrections Officer. It is my understanding from a source who currently is employed at MCC that the second individual assigned to SHU that shift is employed by the Warehouse and he had volunteered to work the overtime on Friday night/Saturday morning in SHU. The Union President stated that MCC is currently functioning with less than 70 percent of the needed correctional officers, forcing many to work mandatory overtime and 60 to 70 hour work weeks. The Union President went on to say in an interview, "If it wasn't Mr. Epstein, it would have been somebody else because of the conditions at the institution. It wasn't a matter of how it happened or it happening, but it was only a matter of time for it to happen. It was inevitable. Our Staff is severely overworked." August 9-10, 2019 According to several sources, Correctional Officers assigned to SHU did not check on Epstein for several hours, despite policy requiring physical checks of all SHU inmates every 30 minutes. Both staff were working overtime at the understaffed facility. One of the Officers was mandated to work the overtime and the Warehouse Employee volunteered to work the overtime in the midst of an 80-hour work week. August 10, 2019 3 EFTA00057910

Epstein is found unconscious/unresponsive in his cell. He is later pronounced dead from an apparent suicide. Further it has been reported that Epstein committed suicide by hanging with the use of a bed sheet. August 11, 2019 The investigations begin and the autopsy is performed. It is anticipated it will be several days before any official information is reported. 4 EFTA00057911

Conditions of Confinement at MCC New York Aviva Stahl, an Investigative New York Journalist, has extensively covered conditions of confinement at MCC New York over the last several years. Much of what she claims have recently been reported by numerous media outlets. The following excerpts were written by Ms. Stahl and published August 2019, in the Columbia Journalism Review and June 2018, in the Gothamist. Additional excerpts from the June 2018 and August 2019 publications of the Gothamist, of former inmates of MCC, Attorneys, Prison Experts, Professors and other sources are also provided in the following section. August 20, 2019 Columbia Journalism Review - (Aviva Stahl) "WHEN I AWOKE LAST SATURDAY to the news of Jeffrey Epstein's death, I realized that the moment had come: the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), the federal prison where he died, was about to get its fifteen minutes of fame. As a freelance investigative reporter who frequently covers the prison system, I'd spent years trying to pitch stories about that facility, often without success. Last summer, I managed to publish an investigation into conditions at the MCC on the website, Gothamist. The story documented that MCC was overcrowded and understaffed, plagued by vermin and overflowing toilets, dogged by allegations of corruption and abuse, and beset by an almost total lack of medical care. None of that got much attention at the time. But as soon as news of Epstein's death started circulating, so did my piece." "There are no advocacy groups focused on improving conditions at federal prisons, in large part because there aren't really any elected officials responsible for safeguarding these institutions. Congress is technically charged with overseeing the Bureau of Prisons, but Congress is busy. And because federal institutions hold individuals from across the country, federal prisoners don't form a natural constituency, or represent a single newspaper readership." June 19, 2018 5 EFTA00057912

"Half a block behind Manhattan's federal courthouse, two blocks from City Hall, three blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, and less than a mile from the hustle-and-bustle of Wall Street, sits a detention center that has been condemned by a United Nations human rights expert for exposing its inmates to conditions akin to torture. While reports of the horrendous conditions on Rikers Island helped spur Mayor Bill de Blasio's pledge to shutter the jail's violence-plagued facilities, far less attention has been paid to the environment inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal jail which mainly holds people who have been charged but not yet convicted of crimes, who in the eyes of the law are still presumed innocent. Yet those locked up at the MCC are subject to their own indignities and rights violations, say those who have spent time there on both sides of the bars. These include filthy conditions, vermin infestations, substandard medical care, and violence and abuse at the hands of guards. Interviews with a dozen people who have spent time locked up there as recently as 2017, as well as with attorneys who have represented clients at MCC, human rights groups, and others with direct knowledge of the prison, confirm that those incarcerated at MCC often endure a rat-infested, high-rise hell just yards from the federal courts that send them there. "I thought there was nowhere worse than Rikers Island," Melvin Rodriguez, who spent three weeks at MCC, told Gothamist. In October 2016, Rodriguez was arrested in the Bronx on federal charges for selling drugs to a confidential informant, as part of the largest gang raid in New York City history. Rodriguez said the bug and rodent infestation at MCC was particularly horrifying. "The cells (are] very small and at nighttime you hear the mouses, see waterbugs in the shower," he told Gothamist. At least one former MCC prisoner said the mice would find their way into commissary boxes, and gnaw away at their food. "You asked about the conditions," wrote Ricardo Stewart, another young man indicted as part of the Bronx gang raid. "We saw rats so big it seemed like they could only be in the sewer." "But they wasn't in the streets or the sewers," Stewart added. 6 EFTA00057913

"They were more like roommates." In a special jail-within-a-jail called 10 South, alleged terrorists, mobsters and drug kingpins are subject to some of the most brutal conditions of solitary confinement in the nation. This extreme isolation, reserved for those charged with the most heinous crimes, was described as "a punitive measure that is unworthy of the United States as a civilized democracy," according to a former special monitor on torture and punishment for the United Nations who investigated the case of one prisoner held there for three years." "Hundreds of people indicted in the Southern District of New York, as well as many individuals indicted in the Eastern District, based in Brooklyn's federal court across the river, end up at the jail awaiting trial for federal offenses including drug-related crimes, fraud, bribery, and sex offenses. Defendants facing terrorism charges have spent more than three years at the facility, attorneys say. But even those facing less high-profile charges generally spend at least one or two years there before their criminal cases are resolved." New York attorney Joshua Dratel, who has represented clients at the notorious U.S. facility at Guantanamo, says "in some regards, MCC—particularly 10 South - is worse." Dratel said he has represented nearly a dozen people who have served time on 10 South, and countless others in MCC. He describes the prison as "soul-negating." "It's physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally—as unaccommodating to the idea of being human as any place I've been," Dratel told Gothamist. Bruce Barket, a New York Attorney who has visited clients at MCC described the institution as "infested with rats and mold." He went on to state, "The Facility is run with a bad combination of laziness and cruelty," citing the Epstein death is one of the results. He describes the Special Housing Unit as "a place where an inmate sits in a box and stares at the wall." Jeanne Thesharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political 7 EFTA00057914

Science at Brooklyn College who has written extensively about conditions at MCC. "If I described these conditions to you—filthy, freezing, no natural light, isolation so extreme that you're punished for speaking through the walls, absurd rules like prisoners not getting to see the newspapers unless they're 30 days old, secrecy so deep that people are force-fed and lawyers can be punished for describing the conditions their clients are experiencing—you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was Iran or Russia," she said. "But in fact this gulag exists right here in lower Manhattan." Andrew Laufer, a civil rights attorney who has filed several lawsuits challenging conditions at the BOP's two federal jails in New York City, recalled suing the BOP on behalf of a prisoner at MCC who had had his fingertip chopped off by a cell door. Rather than being placed in an ambulance, alleges Laufer, the man was chained at his ankles and wrists and brought to the hospital by correctional officers, bleeding profusely. "I think it's a human rights violation," Laufer says of the medical care at MCC. "I think it's an Eighth Amendment violation—deliberate indifference." In the past 15 years, at least one correctional officer at MCC has been convicted of beating an inmate, and at least three guards have been convicted of sexually assaulting inmates. In 2016, a former correctional officer at MCC was sentenced to seven years for raping an inmate. Most recently a former MCC Staff Member was convicted of taking bribes to smuggle food, alcohol and cellphones into the facility. In a 2011 letter to then-Attorney General Eric Holder, Amnesty International expressed concern that conditions on 10 South "fall short of international standards for humane treatment" and "appear incompatible with the presumption of innocence." The brutal nature of life on the unit, including its extreme conditions of isolation, were also documented in a 2014 Human 8 EFTA00057915

Rights Watch Report, about human rights abuses in US terrorism prosecutions. During his six-year term as the UN Special Rapporteur for Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which ended in October 2016, the BOP prevented Juan Mendez from speaking to suspected or convicted terrorists. Mendez was able to investigate the conditions at 10 South by interviewing family members of the incarcerated and contacting the State Department about the allegations. He ultimately determined that international human rights protections had been violated. While there has been increasing advocacy for reforms to local jail and prison conditions, federal prisons remain a kind of political orphan, a situation compounded in the Trump era. "Rikers is a good example of the power of people in a democracy to hold their elected officials accountable," said Fettig, "but in the federal context—federal facilities house people from all around the country, and so there's no natural constituency in the state, city, county they're located in" to express concern about what's happening on the inside. As a result, for people locked up at MCC, there's little hope that conditions will improve anytime soon. That could be exactly the way jailers and prosecutors want it. Pre-trial detention, which often lasts years, can become not only unsafe, but coercive; as a result, individuals are pressured to provide information to prosecutors or accept plea deals in their desperation to be released, say former prisoners. "You want to plead guilty and get out of this dump to a prison," said Nicky, the former inmate. "The feds have a 98% conviction rate for a reason," Melvin Rodriguez, another former prisoner said. "They mentally break you." Asked why he thought MCC has received so much less coverage than Rikers, Rodriguez replied, "I think [MCC] went unnoticed because people think just because it's the feds the conditions are better. There are certain things that go on in these places that the government covers so the public would never know." 9 EFTA00057916

But for years, MCC has been plagued by filthy conditions, abusive guards, and a severe lack of medical care, as Gothamist documented in an extensive investigation last year. Defense attorneys, former inmates, and others with direct knowledge of conditions at MCC said Epstein's death epitomized how all individuals, even the most infamous people on the planet, are treated in the facility. Susan Kellman has been working as a federal defense attorney and representing clients at MCC for about 30 years, and described the MCC's recent condition as "the worst that it's ever been." Kellman said that one of her clients, a young man, has been in the Special Housing Unit—the unit where Epstein died—for the three and a half years. "His entire window is covered in mold," she said, and because the hot and cold water in the cell come out of different taps, her client can't even take a shower without getting frozen or scorched. She recalled that she'd had one client at the facility who was charged with observing and safeguarding suicidal prisoners, since there weren't enough correctional officers to do the job. "So they have inmates patrolling the suicide block so that they keep an eye on the people rather than people (who] get paid by the government doing it," Kellman said. "Do they really care? Do they watch? Who knows!" Kellman described a third client who suffers from mental health issues as well as severe asthma, but has been unable to get the nebulizer treatment she says she needs to control the disease. During one visit, Kellman said her client's breathing was so labored she couldn't carry on a conversation: "I couldn't talk to her, because she couldn't breathe." Over the spring, Gothamist was in touch with two women held at the facility, who said they were denied basic medical care, and that their cells routinely flooded with sewage. "Toilet waste and feces were all over the floors of all the cells, common area, and other departments on the floor and the female inmates were the ones who had to clean it all up without proper equipment," one detainee wrote in a message. The woman, whose name is being withheld at her request out of fear of 10 EFTA00057917

retaliation, described how her floormates got feces on "their hands, legs, faces, hair, all over" and said the "difficulty breathing due to the smell was and is indescribable." Kellman said that it makes little difference to the Correctional Officers at MCC whether an inmate is a billionaire financier or not—everyone is regarded with disdain. "(The prisoners would] be lucky if they were treated like dirt under somebody else's shoe, but they're not even treated that well." These conditions persist at MCC despite the fact that people held there have not yet been convicted of a crime, and thus are supposed to benefit from the presumption of innocence. The following excerpt was taken from an article published in the Intercept, February 3, 2019, edition, written by Martin Gottesfeld, an inmate incarcerated in the 10 South Unit of MCC New York. "AT THE TAIL end of the Obama administration, I was locked up a stone's throw away from Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at the Federal Bureau of Prisons' infamous Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, or MCC NY, in downtown Manhattan, where Guzman is currently being held during his ongoing federal trial. I was there writing and waging a hunger strike when El Chapo first arrived. Much has been written about El Chapo's trial, but close to nothing about the conditions of his confinement, as the security around him has made access off limits to any journalist other than me. I'm an imprisoned human rights activist and political journalist focusing on protecting institutionalized children from common tortures in America like these: I'm currently suing the Bureau of Prisons and MCC NY for both state and federal civil rights violations, related to the conditions where El Chapo is held, and I'm exploring classaction certification. My lawsuit against MCC NY offers a new and rare glimpse into prison life in the solitary confinement cells that El Chapo has now called home for nearly two years. Besides simply recovering my fees and costs, however, my goals aren't 11 EFTA00057918

financial. Instead I'm asking the court to force MCC NY to respect human dignity, the First Amendment, federal regulations, and other human and civil rights." In a letter written from MCC to officials at the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Office of the Inspector General at the Justice Department, Mr. Gottesfield calls attention to what he describes as appalling conditions inside the facility. In his letter, he alleges there are severe threats to health, including rodent and insect infestations at the facility. "Roaches are found in the food, and I have personally observed insect eggs as well," Gottesfeld adds. He describes how the heat is, for the most part, not functioning during the winter. A number of the cells are in the "50-degree range while others are much colder." Meanwhile, pools of water stand in the facility from leaks and are a "breeding ground for infections." "The facility itself is trash, with cockroach-infested meal trays and frigid, leaky cells. One inmate resorted to drinking from his toilet when the water was shut off." There's a lot of mystery surrounding the 10-South unit at MCC where El Chapo is being housed. Much of that is fueled by the effects of it being a "SAMs" or "special administrative measures" unit. As such, the inmates aren't supposed to come into any visual or other contact with other inmates. Even magazines they receive in the mail must be prescreened by the FBI for the supposed reason of intercepting hidden messages. Outbound communications are similarly restricted and monitored in real time. Amnesty International Amnesty International previously condemned the use of MCC to "house pretrial detainees in solitary confinement for months or even years before they face trial." With regards to the Special Housing Unit at MCC, the human rights organization says "detainees have little access to natural light and no provision for outdoor exercise." Amnesty International characterized 12 EFTA00057919

"the combined effects of prolonged confinement to sparse cells with little natural light, no outdoor exercise and extreme social isolation amount[ing] to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." United States Representative Nydia Velazquez - August 1, 2018 and August 14, 2019 August 1. 2018 - A federal lawmaker is demanding officials running a prison in lower Manhattan detail how long it takes for those in the lockup to get medical care. U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez is demanding answers as allegations of abuse continue to surface at the Metropolitan Correctional Center some prisoner advocates have compared to a gulag. "When inmates are placed at the mercy of our government, we have a moral responsibility to ensure they are treated humanely, something which MCC has allegedly failed to do," Velasquez said in a statement. "I am asking for a full explanation and immediate steps to ensure the safety of prisoners housed there." On Wednesday, she sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons citing "alarming conditions" at the prison which houses highprofiled terrorists and drug lord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman. The missive demands the number of violent incidents as well as the time it typically takes for prisoners to receive medical care. The allegations of abuse, including prisoners forced to wait two months to be seen by a doctor, were first reported in Gothamist. Prison advocates have long argued that the facility is more restrictive than the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. August 14, 2019 - Rep. Nydia Velazquez on Wednesday joined the growing number of officials calling for a soup-to-nuts investigation into the apparent suicide of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. 13 EFTA00057920

Velazquez said she wrote a letter to the Justice Department's inspector general and the head of the FBI demanding answers not only about Epstein's death but about what she called other rampant abuses of detainees at the lockup. "I write to voice concerns about the continued alleged culture of mismanagement and inadequate leadership at this facility," she said. She cited several other incidents at the MCC, in which corrections staff allegedly abused detainees. Representative Velasquez posted the following on her Facebook Social Media account on August 14, 2019: "MCC is in our District, #NY7. I've been pressing for greater oversight of this institution for many years now!" "Not only does Epstein's suicide raise questions about how his custody was handled, but it hearkens back to a litany of previous problems we've seen at this facility," Velazquez told The News. "I'm glad DOJ and FBI are looking into this most recent episode and all of us, including his victims, need to know how Epstein died," she added. "Still, I think what's also needed is a comprehensive review of the culture and management problems at MCC." Conclusion/Opinions/Observations MCC New York, like many other Federal Prisons nationwide is overpopulated and understaffed. It is reported the MCC was built to accommodate 474 inmates. On the day of Mr. Epstein's suicide, the prison's inmate population count was 763, almost twice the number it was designed to house. Much talk and attention has been on the staffing shortages. Mainly, as a result of the 2017 Trump Administration Hiring Freeze, the Bureau of Prisons lost 7,300 employees. MCC New York was recently described by Attorney General William Barr as an institution with "deeply concerning irregularities." AG Barr expressed outrage and says he was "appalled and angry" to learn of MCC's "failure to adequately secure this prisoner." Other sources familiar with current conditions at MCC described it as "deplorable," and "bordering on inhumane treatment." 14 EFTA00057921

I personally maintain contact with several individuals who are currently employed with the Bureau of Prisons as well as MCC New York. Three current MCC Staff Members very recently described to me the current sanitation conditions at the facility. One stated, "The facility is so disgusting it's like a prison in a third-world country. Cleaning supplies are not issued on a regular basis." The individual further advised, "Pest Control is horrible and ineffective, rats, mice and bugs are everywhere." Another Correctional Officer told me, "There are mice and bugs everywhere including inmates' cells." This information is consistent with my Court testimony on July 3, 2019, and my assessment in Paragraph 20 of my Declaration in the case of Mr. Motiwala. Further, it corroborates the many news reports, regarding the "rodent- infested MCC." On a different, yet equally concerning topic, an MCC Correctional Officer advised me this past week, that there is blatant racial discord within the institution, especially amongst Correctional Officers. I did not witness this when I was Warden at MCC, and my contact advises it began a short time following my departure. It is my belief that the excerpts I've cited in this report and statements from various sources of the MCC are credible and honest. The Staff have nothing to gain by sharing this information with me other than to express their dissatisfaction and frustration with current practices and conditions at MCC. In my July 3, 2019, testimony in the London Court for the extradition case of Sadiq Motiwala, I expressed concerns with MCC New York in regards to staff shortages, staff from other departments being "augmented" to fill in for correctional officer vacancies on a regular basis, conditions of confinement at MCC and various other matters related to the institution. I stated in my testimony and also in my Declaration that MCC New York or any other federal prison could not prevent anyone who is persistent from taking their own life. At best, they could only delay an inmate from committing suicide by placing his on a suicide watch. A suicide watch does not continue indefinitely. As previously stated in this report, a usual amount of days for a suicide watch would be two to four days, depending on circumstances. Once the suicide watch ends, that also ends the 24 hours of continuous inmate observation. 15 EFTA00057922

If Mr. Motiwala is extradited to the United States and housed at MCC or MDC, I am confident his mental health needs, given his propensity to commit self harm, will not be adequately addressed. I am more convinced of this now, following the Epstein suicide, numerous documents and recent information revealed, than I was during my testimony to the Court in July 2019. It appears the current conditions within the prison are extremely dire and certainly far worse than when I was assigned at MCC as Warden. Numerous individuals have come forward in the last few weeks, including some former Bureau of Prisons' Wardens. They fervently state some serious missteps occurred at the MCC surrounding the death of Mr. Epstein. These individuals have been quick to point fingers and assign blame to top executives, psychology staff and correctional officers. Many are quick to say that Mr. Epstein should not have been removed from Suicide Watch or if he were removed, extra precautions/safeguards should have been in place. Some sources view the actions of staff who were assigned to Epstein's Housing Unit, as a blatant indifference to the care and welfare of inmates. Others, including Union Officials, are suggesting the Officers' disregard of conducting the required 30-minute cell checks were justified because of the long hours staff are forced to work, as a result of the institution being so understaffed. While all of the investigations continue, it is premature to conclude exactly what did occur leading up to the death of Mr. Epstein. What we do know is that several policies were not followed or were simply ignored, several departments within MCC were involved and shortcuts were taken. MCC New York is heavily in the spotlight and under a microscope these past two weeks and likely for the next several weeks. It is my opinion that this only received such widespread attention because of the notoriety of Epstein. Had this been another inmate, less known, who was not a public figure, they likely would not have received media attention. Once the investigations are concluded, it is probable that several recommendations will be provided. In order to correct problems that exist, one must look at the root of the cause and be willing to fix that also. Only time will tell if any future additional measures put in place will be adequate. If what is being reported by countless sources, is in fact what actually occurred, and staff completely ignored their responsibilities, 16 EFTA00057923

no recommendations and no additional measures would have changed the unfortunate outcome of what occurred on August 10, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York. The current problems at the MCC cannot, in my opinion, be cured by any quick fix solution. Even with the current spotlight on MCC, and assuming the Bureau of Prisons will put forth their best efforts to eradicate the broken parts, one still must account for human error and agency needs. Staff will continue to work overtime, staff will continue to take shortcuts, staff will continue to be tired on the job and fall asleep. No amount of effort on anyone's part can change that and one can only hope that when these things occur, nothing bad happens. It would take many years to resolve the issues and problems that plague MCC, provided there is a real desire to make changes. This will not give any comfort to Mr Motiwala or the U.K Courts as to whether he or his mental health needs will be adequately managed if extradited to the United States. 17 EFTA00057924

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Let us know you agree to cookies We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Please let us know if you agree to all of these cookies. Yes, I agree No, take me to settings Home News Sport Weather iPlayer Sounds Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan 12 August 2019 Jeffrey Epstein death dpi* ir • OH 0 Questions are being asked how Jeffrey Epstein died in custody in New York while being held on sex trafficking charges. So what is the detention facility like where he spent his final days? Built in 1975, the 12-story Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan - where the financier died in a suspected suicide on Friday night - holds around 800 people awaiting trial or sentencing at the federal court house just a few blocks away. EFTA00057926

The brick building has detained such high-profile criminals as Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo, Gambino mafia crime boss John Gotti and World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. Like other federal prisons, the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) suffers from shortages of staff and resources, prisoner overcrowding and is plagued by violence and poor sanitary conditions. The conditions The jail was built to accommodate 474 inmates, but held 763 male prisoners at the time of Epstein's death, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prisoners have described seeing large rats in their cells, air conditioner units so noisy it is impossible to sleep, and absence of any natural light or sanitary water. As he was sent down for the rest of his life, Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman took the opportunity to call the place "torture". "Since the government will send me to a jail where my name will not ever be heard again, I take this opportunity to say there was no justice here," he said at his sentencing in July. "It has been psychological and mental torture 24 hours a day." Brooklyn College professor Jeanne Theoharis, who has written extensively about MCC, told the Gothamist website in June that the jail resembles conditions found in countries such as "Iran or Russia". Calling the place a "gulag", she described conditions as "filthy, freezing, no natural light, isolation so extreme that you're punished for speaking through the walls, absurd rules like prisoners not getting to see the newspapers unless they're 30 days old, secrecy so deep that people are force-fed". EFTA00057927

GETTY IMAGES Lawyer Andrew Laufer, who is suing the US government after his client was beaten to death in MCC in 2015, says the Riker's Island prison, which is run by the city, is much more violent than MCC. He says it's too early to know whether Epstein's wealth may have played a role in his death, amid speculation in the US that he could have bribed guards to be left alone. He notes that other ultra-rich white collar criminals from Wall Street, only blocks away, are frequent guests of MCC, including Bernie Madoff who was arrested in 2008 for running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. Mr Laufer says that more important than a client's profile or means is the crime itself and the publicity it receives in the media. Sex criminals like Epstein, he says, are more likely to face issues from other inmates, making it unusual that Epstein was not being more closely watched. EFTA00057928

The staffing A representative for workers at the jail told CBS News in New York that the Epstein death is not surprising. Staffing, the representative says, is "completely inadequate", with many workers putting in more than 60 hours per week leaving them "overwhelmed" and "not alert". According to the Associated Press (AP), the jail is so under-staffed that correctional officers are being offered a $10,000 bonus to transfer there from other facilities. Guards sometimes work 16 hours a day, according to the AP. A person familiar with the Epstein case told the news agency that a guard overseeing Epstein was working a fifth straight day of overtime - and another was working mandatory overtime - on the day the wealthy financier's body was found. Staff shortages were worsened after a government shutdown triggered by a budget stand-off between the White House and Democrats over President Donald Trump's insistence on funding for a southern border wall. In January, during the shutdown, inmates staged a hunger strike over claims they were being denied family visitation rights. The Bureau of Prisons is already under scrutiny for the death of Boston gangster James Whitey Bulger, who was fatally beaten by another inmate shortly after arriving at a West Virginia lock-up last October. In February 2018, a British court ruled against extraditing accused hacker Lauri Love - who is diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome and would have probably been held in the MCC - on the grounds that he would present a high-risk of suicide if he was sent there. ■ Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal Where Epstein stayed According to the New York Times, Epstein had recently been moved from suicide watch to the Special Housing Unit where he was meant to be on 24-hour monitoring and given daily EFTA00057929

psychiatric evaluations. He was ordered there after he was found on the floor of his cell two weeks earlier with neck injuries, in an apparent attempted suicide. According to the paper, two guards were meant to check on him every 30 minutes, but those procedures were not followed on the night of his death. He was also meant to be housed with one other inmate, but his cellmate had reportedly been transferred and no replacement had yet arrived. REUTERS Mr Laufer, the lawyer, says CCTV captures what goes on in the Special Housing Unit, as well as for those prisoners being kept on suicide watch. He says it's too early to know what contributed to Epstein's death, until an FBI investigation is complete, but either way the prison is facing a "grossly negligent situation". Investigative reporter Aviva Stahl, who spent a year researching the conditions at MCC, found that the facility shared a single psychiatrist with the other federal prison in New York, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and only had a handful of psychologists on staff. The two facilities had only one psychiatrist to oversee the more than 500 prisoners with diagnosed serious mental illnesses, she says, in addition to any prisoners that have been temporarily placed on suicide watch. "When you're on suicide watch and a psychologist comes to speak with you, it's not as though you're in a private room having a conversation. It's like through a slot in the door," she tells BBC News. EFTA00057930

REUTERS Experts on prison safety say they are puzzled as to why Epstein, who had attempted to take his own life earlier, was not kept under closer watch. Cameron Lindsey, a former warden at the federal jail in Brooklyn, told the limes that the psychological evaluation can only reveal so much about a prisoners state of mind. He said that the steady release of embarrassing and incriminating evidence against Epstein could have made him wish to kill himself, and that other prisoners would consider him a target due to his fame and the nature of his alleged crimes. "A psychologist is going to think one way, but a warden needs to think a different way," said Mr Lindsey. "You have to take the conservative, safe route and keep an individual like this on suicide watch." • Who was Jeffrey Epstein? Related Topics Prisons United States New York City Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein death Share this story About sharing More on this story EFTA00057931

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Union and lawmakers have long warned of 'dire' federal prison staffing shortages By Evan Perez, Mark Morales and Kara Scannell, CNN Updated 0223 GMT (1023 HKT) August 14, 2019 Source: CNN politics New Orleans August 12, 2019 Barr: Appalled and angry over failures to secure Epstein 00:45 (CNN) — Staffing shortages at the Bureau of Prisons are dire and widespread, according to agency employees and lawmakers who say they've been warning the Justice Department about the problem and demanding changes for years. Attorney General William Barr has launched investigations into Jeffery Epstein's death. But earlier this year, he referred to delays in hiring new people at the Bureau of Prisons as a "snafu" caused by bureaucracy in the federal prison system. Epstein's suicide has exposed what the employee union says are chronically overworked and short-staffed conditions at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan, including forced overtime and officers reassigned to guard duty. A key US Senate committee has also repeatedly told the Justice Department to hire full-time correctional staff and end an "overreliance" on the type of reassignments that have existed in the MCC and elsewhere. The Justice Department said Tuesday that it was reassigning the warden at the MCC and it was suspending two guards at the facility. The department didn't identify the guards or say whether they were the ones on duty and assigned to monitor Epstein when he died. Days after Epstein's death. BOP officials and FBI investigators are still piecing together even basic details of the incident such as how he was found and how long he was dead before an employee found him, people briefed on the matter said. Some employees have refused to cooperate with investigators and have hired lawyers. people briefed on the matter said. EFTA00057934

Related Article: CNN Exclusive: The rise of the Jeffrey Epstein mystique There were cameras with a view of the hallway outside Epstein's cell but whether they showed anything or were operational -- and if not. why -- remain in question. That some basic details aren't clear suggests that whatever video exists doesn't show what happened. A BOP suicide reconstruction team began working Tuesday to try to determine why Epstein killed himself. A BOP after action team, which looks into major incidents, is slated to arrive Wednesday to begin its work. That team is led by BOP's southeast regional director and will bring in others from outside the northeast to review the Epstein case. Two MCC guards were on duty and responsible for checking on Epstein every 30 minutes -- checks that weren't made for hours. Of the two officers who would have had responsibility to monitor Epstein. one is not currently a detention guard, but was temporarily reassigned to that post, according to a person briefed on the matter. The guard, a man not identified by officials, had previously been trained as a corrections officer but had moved to another position. BOP rules allow for people who work in other jobs, such as teachers and cooks, to be trained to fill in at posts usually manned by corrections officers. TJaaemnnN n. invel nn Cnetnin ele eh, n int-sm.-An .. tee n fi tlho trninnel nnernntionnn nffinn, nnnnerlinn to then convenn Inrinfrul nn politics Eric Young, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Council of Prison Locals, which represents BOP employees, says a hiring freeze put in place at the start of President Donald Trump's presidency is the root of nationwide problems at federal prisons. He called the situation "dire." with decreased staffing levels the root cause of issues from contraband getting in to safety of correctional workers and inmates. AFGE represents workers at 122 facilities nationwide and BOP employs roughly 33.000. according to Young. That number was once at 38.000 workers but after the Trump hiring freeze, the problem was never fixed. The Justice Department says Barr lifted the freeze in April and that BOP has been recruiting to fill positions. It typically takes months to bring on new federal employees. "We felt betrayed," Young said of the hiring freeze. "Mr. President, we work for you. You say you're a law and order president and we thought we were going to reap the benefits of that, but we didn't." In addition, more vacancies could soon be on the way; Young says an estimated 5,000 people are eligible for retirement at the end of the year. A Justice official says the department's hiring freeze applied to positions in BOP regional offices and at the bureau's headquarters, not to prison facilities. The official said the BOP's hiring practices -- filling positions one at a time -- caused delays in hiring. The bureau also faced staff losses from retirements. Barr in April ordered the bureau to speed up hiring by filling open positions concurrently. The Justice official also disputed perceptions that BOP faced a Trump budget squeeze. BOP's budget increased from nearly $6.8 billion in the 2014 fiscal year to $7.25 billion in fiscal 2019. At the same time, employee and inmate numbers decreased. Prisoner releases have accelerated as a result of criminal justice revisions in the Obama and Trump administrations. The bureau had 38.496 employees in 2014. compared with 35.123 in fiscal 2018. BOP held 214.149 prisoners in 2014. compared with 181.698 in 2018. EFTA00057935

politics How Jeffrey Epstein's death became a political football 05:34 Bonuses, augmentation To combat the drop in workers, BOP officials have been offering a retention bonus, which gives workers a 5% bonus if they decide to stay instead of retiring, Young said. They also have allowed retired correctional officers to come back on a part-time basis to ease the staffing issues at hard-to-staff prisons, Young said. The agency also approved the addition of 3,000 temporary positions for entry level workers. Officials also offered workers a 10% relocation bonu8 if they opted to work at facilities that are hard to staff like MCC in New York, Hazetton in West Virginia, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and others. Part of the relocation agreement is for staffers to stay at the facility for at least two years. Young draws the correlation of fewer guards to safety, saying the problem came to a head early Saturday morning in New York. "Time was not on our side before Epstein killed himself." Young said. "We were on the right course of hiring but we just couldn't do it fast enough. We were stalemated by Trump." The BOP has tried to address staffing shortages in part by using a practice called augmentation to temporarily assign employees who aren't corrections officers to staff posts intended for detention guards. In October, four senators led by Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing their "deep concerns" about the use of augmentation and staffing levels at federal prisons in Pennsylvania and West Virginia following the deaths of a correctional officer and inmates. "We cannot allow these dangerous staffing practices to continue," Related Article: For Jeffrey Epstein's the senators wrote. accusers and their quest for justice, what now? They noted that twice when approving BOP's budget, a Senate committee had issued a report that 'included clear directions' to the Justice Department to stop "its overreliance on augmentation" in favor of hiring full-time correctional staff. EFTA00057936

Four days later. James "Whitey" Bulger. the Boston mob boss was brutally beaten and killed at the federal prison in Hazelton. RELATED: Questions raised about decision to transfer 'Whitey' Bulger to prison where he died Last June, the Senate Appropriations Committee reiterated its demand. "The Committee again directs BOP to curtail its overreliance on augmentation, particularly in housing units" the committee's report said. "BOP should instead hire additional full-time correctional staff before continuing to augment existing staff? A February 2018 letter from 52 members of Congress was sent to Sessions asking him to reconsider eliminating 6,000 unfilled positions at federal prisons nationwide. "Augmentation was designed as a temporary solution to short-term staffing conflicts, not a long-term solution to respond to budget pressure," the lawmakers said. Soon after Barr took office this year, he acknowledged to lawmakers that the Justice Department had "stumbled" in addressing the problem. In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in April. he called the staffing shortages at prison facilities a "snafu" and blamed bureaucracy within the prison hiring system, not the hiring freeze. "TheSportaoes out in the orison facilities themselves was not the freeze? Barr said. think what it is is. frankly. politics Barr said he believes the agency begins the process of hiring a new person into a position vacated by internal job shifts too late. "It takes months and months and months to get that person on board. That makes no sense because every year we lose 2.600 of these correctional officers. So my view is we just have to turn on the spigot and keep these new entry level people coming in at a rate where we're going to be able to get up to and maintain our enacted level," Barr said. "I think this is largely a snafu by the department and that's how I interpret it and that's how I'm approaching it," he added. Search CNN... World US Politics Business Health Entertainment Tech Style Travel Sports Videos Features More EFTA00057937

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