Two weeks before his death, on July 23rd 2019, Epstein was found in his cell with an orange cloth around his neck and his cellmate told prison staff he had tried to kill himself.
BOP policy requires that inmates identified as suicide risks be 'placed on suicide watch until no longer at imminent risk', the OIG report states.
But instead the BOP used a 'less restrictive' way of monitoring him.
That meant Epstein was removed from suicide watch the next day and remained under psychological observation until July 30th.
The prison psychologist who examined Epstein determined he needed to be housed with another inmate and emailed more than 70 MCC employees telling them about this requirement.
Epstein was indeed given a cellmate, Inmate 3, and he remained in Epstein's cell until August 9, the day before he was found dead.
This was in spite of more than 2,000 pages of damning documents being unsealed that very day which painted the fullest picture yet of Epstein's abuse of underage girls stretching back decades.
The documents would have made clear to Epstein the scale of the case against him and how likely he was to be found guilty if the case had gone to trial.
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