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Inmate suicides are almost always preventable, and Epstein attempted last month. Huge failure by the feds here.
“If you run a jail with an appropriate degree of suicide prevention, you get almost zero.” highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/sa… 
Suicide has been the no. 1 cause of deaths in jails in every year since 2000. The rate of jail suicides in 2014 — the last year when data was available — was the highest on record. huffpost.com/entry/jail-dea…
“We have allowed our jails to become places of disease, neglect, and everyday brutality.” huffpost.com/entry/jail-dea…
“I don’t know of any other developed country where it’s really impossible to say how many people died in jails and prisons in a given year.” m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58…
“How often was he supposed to be checked on, and when was his last contact with a correctional officer? Was his prison cell designed with suicide prevention in mind, or retrofitted to reduce ligature points an inmate could use to hang himself?” huffpost.com/entry/aaron-he…
Jeffrey Epstein's Death Underlines A Nationwide Problem. @JessReports: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Lindsay Hayes was a tremendous resource in our reporting on jail suicides. Read his piece on Epstein’s death: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
BOP lacks a confirmed director, and staffers have been raising the alarm about shortages for years. The problem got worse due to Trump’s hiring freeze.
“The morale is pathetic within the federal Bureau of Prisons. There’s a breaking point right now, and we’re at that point where the bough breaks. huffpost.com/entry/federal-…
(Should’ve said permanent director here. Prior director resigned in May 2018.)
“I feel that the administration is setting our agency up for failure.” huffpost.com/entry/federal-…
