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US Attorney General Shakes Up Prisons Bureau After Epstein Death

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday announced a
   new leadership team at the federal Bureau of Prisons in a shake-up of
   the agency in the wake of financier Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide
   inside a federal jail in New York City.

   Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, a veteran of the Bureau of Prisons, will return
   to the agency to serve as its director, Barr said.

   He named another former agency official, Thomas Kane, to serve as her
   deputy.

   The Bureau of Prisons has about 37,000 employees and oversees 122
   facilities, which house about 180,000 inmates.

   Hugh Hurwitz, who has been serving as the bureau's acting director -
   including when Epstein was found unresponsive over a week ago in a
   Manhattan jail cell - has been reassigned to his prior position within
   the agency.

   Epstein had been arrested on July 6 and pleaded not guilty to federal
   charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young
   as 14.

   An autopsy report released on Friday concluded he committed suicide by
   hanging.

   His death at the age of 66 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
   (MCC) in lower Manhattan triggered multiple investigations and had
   prompted Barr to criticize "serious irregularities" at the facility.

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