Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide in a New York jail followed steep and persistent staffing shortages that exceeded the rate of decline in the federal prison population, according to an analysis by the Marshall Project.
The numbers tell the story: The analysis found that the federal prison system lost 12 percent of its workforce from the start of the Trump administration through the end of 2018. Administration officials have argued that the staff drop, which resulted partly from a hiring freeze, was mitigated by a reduction in the number of federal prisoners. But the drop in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff was nearly double the rate of decline in the prison population overall, the analysis found.
From January 2017, when President Trump took office, to the end of 2018, the Bureau of Prisons’ staffing numbers dropped by more than 4,600 people—12 percent of its total staff—including correctional officers, psychologists, administrators, or anyone else who works in the prisons, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In April, Barr acknowledged in a congressional hearing that the hiring freeze led to understaffing. He said by that point the prison system was down by as many as 5,000 employees. Union officials contend the number of positions left open by attrition grew to as many as 6,000.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...xposing-the-clusterfuck-inside-trumps-prisons
Everything Trump and his Keystone Cop administration touches turns to crap. The ineptitude and stupidity is off the charts.
