Many Suicides in Prisons Could Have Been Averted, Justice Dept. Watchdog Says
Dozens of inmates, including disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, have died needlessly in federal prisons due to lax supervision, access to contraband and poor supervision of vulnerable inmates, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s watchdog agency. The Bureau of Prisons, which has jurisdiction over about 155,000 inmates, routinely subjects prisoners to conditions…