Jeffrey Epstein's remaining days — and chlamydia remedy — are revealed in 4,000 pages of paperwork. Listed below are the highlights.

• The Bureau of Prisons launched over 4,000 pages of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein’s demise.
• Docs present he had sleep apnea, constipation, hypertension, prediabetes, and was handled for chlamydia.
• Different revelations embrace a letter he tried to ship to a different high-profile pedophile: Larry Nassar.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks earlier than ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat within the nook of his Manhattan jail cell together with his palms over his ears, determined to muffle the sound of a bathroom that would not cease working.

Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officers noticed in data newly obtained by The Related Press.

He referred to as himself a “coward” and complained he was struggling to adapt to life behind bars following his July 2019 arrest on federal intercourse trafficking and conspiracy expenses — his lifetime of luxurious lowered to a concrete and metal cage.

The disgraced financier was underneath psychological remark on the time for a suicide try simply days earlier that left his neck bruised and scraped. But, even after a 31-hour stint on suicide watch, Epstein insisted he wasn’t suicidal, telling a jail psychologist he had a “great life” and “can be loopy” to finish it.

On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was lifeless.

4,000+ pages of paperwork

Almost 4 years later, the AP has obtained greater than 4,000 pages of paperwork associated to Epstein’s demise from the federal Bureau of Prisons underneath the Freedom of Data Act. They embrace a detailed psychological reconstruction of the occasions resulting in Epstein’s suicide, in addition to his well being historical past, inner company stories, emails, memos and different data.

Taken collectively, the paperwork the AP obtained Thursday present essentially the most full accounting to this point of Epstein’s detention and demise, and its chaotic aftermath. The data assist to dispel the numerous conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s suicide, underscoring how elementary failings on the Bureau of Prisons — together with extreme staffing shortages and workers slicing corners — contributed to Epstein’s demise.

They shed new mild on the federal jail company’s muddled response after Epstein was discovered unresponsive in his cell on the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Heart in New York Metropolis.

In a single e-mail, a prosecutor concerned in Epstein’s legal case complained a couple of lack of know-how from the Bureau of Prisons within the essential hours after his demise, writing that it was “frankly unbelievable” that the company was issuing public press releases “earlier than telling us primary data in order that we are able to relay it to his attorneys who can relay it to his household.”

In one other e-mail, a high-ranking Bureau of Prisons official made a spurious suggestion to the company’s director that information reporters will need to have been paying jail workers for details about Epstein’s demise as a result of they have been reporting particulars of the company’s failings — impugning the ethics of journalists and the company’s personal staff.

The paperwork additionally present a contemporary window into Epstein’s conduct throughout his 36 days in jail, together with his beforehand unreported try to attach by mail with one other high-profile pedophile: Larry Nassar, the US gymnastics workforce physician convicted of sexually abusing scores of athletes.

Epstein’s letter to Nassar was discovered returned to sender within the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s demise. “It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned again to him,” the investigator who discovered the letter informed a jail official by e-mail. “I’m not positive if I ought to open it or ought to we hand it over to anybody?”

The letter itself was not included among the many paperwork turned over to the AP.

Epstein’s demise revealed lapses inside the Bureau of Prisons

The evening earlier than Epstein’s demise, he excused himself from a gathering together with his legal professionals to make a phone name to his household. In keeping with a memo from a unit supervisor, Epstein informed a jail worker that he was calling his mom, who’d been lifeless for 15 years at that time.

Epstein’s demise put elevated scrutiny on the Bureau of Prisons and led the company to shut the Metropolitan Correctional Heart in 2021. It spurred an AP investigation that has uncovered deep, beforehand unreported issues inside the company, the Justice Division’s largest with greater than 30,000 workers, 158,000 inmates and an $8 billion annual finances.

An inner memo, undated however despatched after Epstein’s demise, attributed issues on the jail to “significantly lowered staffing ranges, improper or lack of coaching, and comply with up and oversight.” The memo additionally detailed steps the Bureau of Prisons has taken to treatment lapses Epstein’s suicide uncovered, together with requiring supervisors to evaluation surveillance video to make sure officers made required cell checks.

Epstein’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg, stated folks detained on the facility endured “medieval circumstances of confinement that no American defendant ought to have been subjected to.”

“It is unhappy, it is tragic, that it took this type of occasion to lastly trigger the Bureau of Prisons to shut this regrettable establishment,” Weinberg stated Thursday in a telephone interview.

The employees tasked with guarding Epstein the evening he killed himself, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, have been charged with mendacity on jail data to make it appear as if that they had made their required checks earlier than Epstein was discovered lifeless. Epstein’s cellmate didn’t return after a court docket listening to the day earlier than, and jail officers didn’t pair one other prisoner with him, leaving him alone.

Prosecutors alleged they have been sitting at their desks simply 15 ft (4.6 meters) from Epstein’s cell, shopped on-line for furnishings and bikes, and walked across the unit’s frequent space as an alternative of constructing required rounds each half-hour.

Throughout one two-hour interval, each appeared to have been asleep, based on their indictment. Noel and Thomas admitted to falsifying the log entries however prevented jail time underneath a cope with federal prosecutors. Copies of a few of these logs have been included among the many paperwork launched Thursday, with the guards’ signatures redacted.

One other investigation, by the Justice Division’s inspector normal, remains to be ongoing.

Epstein was upset about sporting an orange jumpsuit and had been handled for chlamydia

Epstein arrived on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart on July 6, 2019. He spent 22 hours within the jail’s normal inhabitants earlier than officers moved him to the particular housing unit “as a result of important enhance in media protection and consciousness of his notoriety among the many inmate inhabitants,” based on the psychological reconstruction of his demise.

Epstein later stated he was upset about having to put on an orange jumpsuit offered to inmates within the particular housing unit and complained about being handled like he was a “dangerous man” regardless of being nicely behaved behind bars. He requested a brown uniform for his near-daily visits together with his legal professionals.

Throughout an preliminary well being screening, the 66-year-old stated that he had 10-plus feminine sexual companions inside the earlier 5 years. Medical data confirmed he was affected by sleep apnea, constipation, hypertension, decrease again ache and prediabetes and had been beforehand handled for chlamydia.

Epstein did make some makes an attempt to adapt to his jailhouse environment, the data present. He signed up for a Kosher meal and informed jail officers, by way of his lawyer, that he needed permission to train exterior.

Two days earlier than he was discovered lifeless, Epstein purchased $73.85 value of things from the jail commissary, together with an AM/FM radio and headphones. He had $566 left in his account when he died.

Denied bail and dealing with as much as 45 years in jail

Epstein’s outlook worsened when a choose denied him bail on July 18, 2019 — elevating the prospect that he’d stay locked up till trial and, probably longer. If convicted, he confronted as much as 45 years jail. 4 days later, Epstein was discovered on the ground of his cell with a strip of bedsheet round his neck.

Epstein survived. His accidents did not require going to the hospital. He was positioned on suicide watch and, later, psychiatric remark. Jail officers famous in logs that they noticed him, “sitting on the fringe of the mattress, misplaced in thought,” and sitting “together with his head towards the wall.”

Epstein expressed frustration with the noise of the jail and his lack of sleep. His first few weeks on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart, Epstein did not have his sleep apnea respiration equipment he used. Then, the bathroom in his cell began performing up.

“He was nonetheless left in the identical cell with a damaged rest room,” the jail’s chief psychologist wrote in a e-mail the following day. “Please transfer him to the cell subsequent door when he returns from authorized as the bathroom nonetheless doesn’t work.”

The day earlier than Epstein ended his life, a federal choose unsealed about 2,000 pages of paperwork in a sexual abuse lawsuit towards him. That improvement, jail officers noticed, additional eroded Epstein’s earlier elevated standing.

That, mixed with an absence of great interpersonal connections and “the thought of doubtless spending his life in jail have been doubtless components contributing to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” officers wrote.

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Related Press writers Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland, Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, Sam Metz in Salt Lake Metropolis, Jake Offenhartz and David B. Caruso in New York, Russ Bynum in Savanah, Georgia, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Brooke Schultz in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.