Videos released in Epstein files raise fresh questions about jail footage

A recently released cache of surveillance video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City is raising new questions about the prison cameras at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein in 2019.

The videos were among a huge cache of by the Department of Justice as congressionally mandated by the . Rather than clarifying events surrounding Epstein's death, the footage appears to complicate the official narrative, and contradicts some prior statements about the prison's surveillance system.

The Epstein jail videos

Epstein was found dead in his cell at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2019, by a corrections officer delivering breakfast at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide by the city's chief medical examiner.

Three months later, then-Attorney General Bill Barr said he had personally reviewed prison surveillance footage and verified that no one entered Epstein's cell area in the hours before his death, which supported his conclusion that Epstein died by suicide.

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