Records reinforce findings that he was inadequately supervised despite suicide risk.

On Friday, The Washington Post published an article showing that newly released files from the U.S. Department of Justice on Jeffrey Epstein add details about his death in prison and underscore that the convicted sex offender was not under sufficient supervision, despite being considered at risk of suicide.

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Epstein died in prison on Aug. 10, 2019, after being charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking and sexual crimes that could have resulted in a sentence of up to 45 years. His death occurred one day before thousands of documents were to be released containing evidence supporting allegations of sexual abuse of girls and young women.

An autopsy determined that he hanged himself in his cell, although many people — including members of the U.S. Congress and supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump — claimed without evidence that Epstein was murdered.

The documents released by the Justice Department — pursuant to a law passed by Congress last month — also include no evidence of a possible homicide and instead further support the theory that prison authorities failed to adequately monitor Epstein, despite the fact that he was under supervision for suicide risk.

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The records provide, above all, more details about a previous suicide attempt by the financier. On July 23, 2019, a couple of weeks after he entered prison, Epstein was found semiconscious on the floor of his cell with a noose around his neck.

“After struggling to get him to his feet, staff restrained Epstein’s hands and legs and removed him on a stretcher, according to the report. A medical evaluation revealed redness and abrasions on his neck. Photos in the report, time-stamped 1:45 a.m. and labeled ‘possible suicide attempt,’ show a disheveled Epstein wearing a blue anti-suicide gown and with skin slightly reddened above the collarbone,” The Washington Post reported.

After that incident, Epstein was placed under watch for a possible new suicide attempt, and the documents include handwritten notes by staff taken at 15-minute intervals.

One of the notes states that Epstein said a cellmate had tried to kill him, and the investigative report also includes testimony from an officer who made the same claim. However, investigators did not corroborate that the cellmate at the time, former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, had assaulted him.

Another document includes notes from an interview with a prison psychologist who observed Epstein over the following two weeks, during which the financier said that “committing suicide went against his religion” and that he did not like pain.

But three days later, as officials were considering removing him from the special unit for inmates with psychiatric issues where he had been placed after the suicide attempt — which he left on July 30 — the prison’s chief psychologist wrote an email expressing concern “because I had reduced him to psychological observation rather than keeping him on suicide watch.”

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