Your point is noted but he's a very high profile case with a very damaging list of powerful names associated with him. Maybe the conspiracy theories are a better way to divert people from the truth. Your experience is appreciated but the reality is that prison's can't be generalized. They're not all the same. Power and influence may make it so that the true facts never come out.

@IAJO163 I've read that this one has a history of being worse than most, if that's any help.

@Paul4747 Okay. I live in a prison rich city.

Whew! Finally he takes a break from blaming Obama for everything including his own issues!

@Canyonrunner Anyone but him....

Look.

He was not (as far as I've read) on suicide watch at the time.

"Given the tools"? People in prison have a RIGHT to bedding, clothing (including belts and shoes, which come with shoelaces), and other furnishings.

Opportunity? If that jail is anything like the prison where I've worked for 20 years, there are between 40 and 120 prisoners to every officer, and there is a constant stream of people coming to you asking for things- paperwork, toilet paper, soap, asking why the phones don't work, where are my visitors, what time is dinner, this guy is bothering me all the time- and rules to enforce; don't pass items from cell to cell, don't cluster around the tables, don't group up on the yard. There are fights, there is contraband beng found, there are reports to write and endless paperwork and administration coming through checking on you, and between all that, you find time to make your required rounds every 20 or 30 minutes.

There's no TIME to put one particular prisoner under special surveillance unless he's been singled out and put in observation, which evidently Epstein wasn't. Were remarks made that the world would be better off without him? Probably; by both staff and prisoners. In which case, it was unprofessional conduct and should be investigated, but will never be proven. But there was no case of any officers deliberately leaving him to hang himself.

This was no conspiracy. It happens in prison. Usually it's a cry for attention, but not this time.

@Paul4747 : He was on suicide watch, then was taken off of it; and shortly thereafter killed himself. It is my understanding that those on suicide watch are denied certain things that they can use to harm themselves and are put under 24 hour watch.

@Joanne His suicide attempt was some time ago, from what I read. Nevertheless, we're obliged to see the facts before we draw a conclusion.

@Paul4747 Oh, I agree. I want facts, not conjecture. I simply have some doubts.

@Joanne Many of us do and as we only know of a few names on that influential list I'd be won't to say that there's a reasonable assumption that "silence is golden"