You won’t believe the shocking details that have just been released about Jeffrey Epstein’s prison suicide!

Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, prison officials noted in records recently obtained by The Associated Press. He described himself as a “coward” and lamented that he was having a hard time adjusting to life behind bars after his death in July 2019 Arrested for federal sex trafficking and conspiracy allegations – his life of luxury reduced to a cage of concrete and steel.

The disgraced financier was under psychological scrutiny at the time because he had attempted suicide a few days earlier, in which his neck was lacerated and lacerated. But even after 31 hours of suicide surveillance, Epstein insisted he wasn’t suicidal, telling a prison psychologist he’d had a “wonderful life” and that it was “crazy” to end it.

On August 10, 2019, Epstein was dead.

Almost four years later, under the Freedom of Information Act, the AP has received more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s death from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. This includes a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading up to Epstein’s suicide, as well as his medical history, internal agency reports, emails and memos, and other records.

Taken together, the documents obtained by AP on Thursday offer the most comprehensive account yet of Epstein’s imprisonment and death, and the messy aftermath. The records help disprove the many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s suicide and underscore how fundamental failings by the prison authority – including severe staff shortages and staff austerity – contributed to Epstein’s death.

They shed new light on the confused response by the federal prison authorities after Epstein was found lifeless in his cell at the now-closed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

In an email, a prosecutor involved in Epstein’s criminal case complained about a lack of information from the Bureau of Prisons in the critical hours after his death, writing that it was “actually incredible” that the agency was issuing public press releases issued “before she told us”. Basic information so we can pass it on to his lawyers who can pass it on to his family.”

In another email, a senior Bureau of Prisons official falsely suggested to the agency’s director that news reporters must have paid prison officials for information on Epstein’s death because they reported details of the agency’s failings — breaking the ethics of journalists in question asked the agency’s own staff.

The documents also offer new insight into Epstein’s behavior during his 36 days in prison, including his previously unreported attempt to contact another high-profile pedophile through the mail: Larry Nassar, the US gymnastics team’s doctor, who was charged with sexual abuse numerous athletes have been convicted.

Epstein’s letter to Nassar was returned to sender in the prison mailroom just weeks after Epstein’s death. “It appeared he had mailed it and it was mailed back to him,” the investigator who found the letter told a prison official via email. “I’m not sure if I should open it or if we should give it to someone?”

The letter itself was not included in the documents provided to the AP.

The night before Epstein’s death, he excused himself from meeting his attorneys to speak to his family on the phone. According to a memo from a department head, Epstein told a prison official that he would call his mother, who had been dead for 15 years at the time.

Epstein’s death take a closer look via the Bureau of Prisons and sparked an AP investigation That has exposed deep, previously unreported problems within the agency, the Justice Department’s largest with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of around $8 billion.

AP reports have revealed rampant sexual abuse And other criminal behavior by the staff, as well as dozens of escapes, prisoner deaths, etc serious staff shortages that have made responding to emergencies difficult.

An internal memo, undated but sent out after Epstein’s death, attributed problems the now closed prison to “significantly reduced staffing levels, improper or absent training, and follow-up and oversight.” The memo also detailed the steps the Bureau of Prisons has taken to address lapses surrounding Epstein’s suicide, including asking supervisors to review surveillance video to ensure officers are conducting necessary cell checks.

The workers who were assigned to guard Epstein the night he killed himself, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were charged with lying in prison records to give the impression that they had carried out the necessary checks before Epstein was found in his cell.

Prosecutors claimed they sat at their desks just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from Epstein’s cell, bought furniture and motorcycles online, and walked around the unit’s common area instead of making the prescribed lap every 30 minutes.

According to the indictment, both appeared to have slept for a period of two hours. Noel and Thomas admitted to falsifying the log entries but managed to avoid jail time through a deal with federal prosecutors. Copies of some of those logs were included in the documents released Thursday, with the guards’ signatures redacted.

Epstein arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 6, 2019. He spent 22 hours in prison before officers transferred him to the special accommodation “due to the significant increase in media coverage and increasing awareness of his celebrity among the inmate population”. ‘ according to the psychological reconstruction of his death.

Epstein later said he was upset at having to wear an orange jumpsuit that was provided to inmates in the special accommodation facility and complained that he was treated like he was a “bad guy” even though he was behind bars well behaved. He demanded a brown uniform for his almost daily visits to his lawyers.

During an initial health check, the 66-year-old said he had had more than 10 female sexual partners in the past five years. Medical records revealed that he suffered from sleep apnea, constipation, high blood pressure, low back pain and prediabetes and had previously been treated for chlamydia.

According to the records, Epstein made some attempts to adjust to the prison environment. He signed up for a kosher meal and, through his attorney, told prison officials that he wanted permission to exercise outside. Two days before he was found dead, Epstein bought $73.85 worth of items from the prison commissioner, including an AM/FM radio and headphones. When he died, he had $566 left in his account.

Epstein’s prospects worsened when a judge denied him bail on July 18, 2019 – raising the prospect that he would remain locked up pending trial and possibly longer. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison. Four days later, Epstein was found on the floor of his cell with a strip of bed sheet around his neck.

Epstein survived. His injuries did not require hospitalization. He was placed under suicide surveillance and later under psychiatric observation. Prison officials noted in transcripts that they observed him “sat on the edge of the bed, lost in thought” and “seated with his head against the wall.”

Epstein expressed frustration with the prison noise and his lack of sleep. For the first few weeks at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Epstein didn’t have the sleep apnea breathing device he was using with him. Then the toilet in his cell started working.

“He was still left in the same cell with a broken toilet,” the prison’s chief psychologist wrote in an email the next day. “Please take him to the cell next door when he comes back from prison as the toilet is still not working.”

The day before Epstein ended his life, a federal judge unsealed about 2,000 pages of documents in a sex abuse lawsuit against him. Prison officials noted that this development further undermined Epstein’s previously high status.

This, coupled with the lack of important human relationships and “the notion of possibly spending his life in prison, were likely factors that contributed to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” officials wrote.