Via Fox News:
In the hours before accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide early Saturday morning, the two corrections officers assigned to watch over the disgraced financier in a special unit of New York City’s federal lockup were reportedly in the midst of working overtime shifts — and one of the individuals wasn’t a regular guard, according to a union head.
Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his cell Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and later pronounced dead — immediately prompting questions about how such a high-profile inmate could have killed himself inside an ultra-secure facility just over two weeks after officials believed Epstein may have previously attempted suicide.
Serene Gregg, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3148, told the Washington Post the facility is functioning with less than 70 percent of the needed staffing, causing many employees to shoulder a 60- or 70-hour workweek.