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FILE- In this July 30, 2008 file photo, Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla. Epstein has died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, says person briefed on the matter, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Uma Sanghvi, File)
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- Guards heard shrieking from his jail cell and attempted to revive him while saying "breathe, Epstein, breathe," $4. It remains unclear who was shrieking.
- $4 that staffers who aren't prison guards are brought in to do guard duty and overtime shifts at the budget-constrained facility.
- On Monday, $4, and said he would investigate what happened.
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Epstein, 66, $4 while being held at the $4 on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
Guards heard shrieking from his jail cell and attempted to revive him while saying "breathe, Epstein, breathe," $4. It remains unclear who was shrieking.
After Epstein was pronounced dead, his estranged brother, Marc Epstein, was called to identify the body, CBS reported.
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At least one of the two employees on duty when Epstein was found in his cell was not part of the regular detention workforce, a person briefed on the matter told CNN. It's unclear what the employee's actual job is, but workers who were hired as teachers and cooks often fill in at posts normally manned by detention officers.
"It's due to understaffing. It's due to not having enough correctional officers," Serene Gregg, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3148, which represents staff at MCC, told CNN. "They would be performing the functions of correctional officers."
On Monday, $4, and said he would investigate what happened.
"We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability," Barr said. "I was appalled and frankly angry to learn of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner."