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Call me naive, but I would simply conclude the jailing facilities are underfunded and unable to prevent someone from committing suicide.

I just can't imagine someone being able to order such a murder. There would be too many people involved and risks of getting caught.

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Epstein was supposed to be under 24/7 camera surveillance. But they are saying there was a camera malfunction.

Dunno man it really doesn't add up to a suicide.

Malfunction is BS. A proper system would alert of camera offline condition or storage offline, etc.

That seems to be a thus-far unsubstantiated Twitter rumor: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-camera-malfun...

Whitey Bulger recently got transferred for no stated reason to a prison in West Virginia and within hours of his arrival was beaten to death by an inmate with mafia ties.

Look, even if video evidence emerges of Epstein kicking the chair out from under his own feet, everyone and their dog could see (and predicted repeatedly!) that he was a risk for either murder or suicide while awaiting trial. Given that the case hinted at an unending multitude of victims whose lives were ruined by a sex trafficking ring that involved elites from the very highest echelons of society, to not have a guard watching him at all times, and a guard watching that guard, and another guard watching that guard, displays a level of "incompetence" or "tight resources" that simply beggars belief.

if someone is in prison for life they have little to lose, and plenty to gain by doing wetwork for corrupt officials.

What does he gain? He's dead.

Death IS the gain bro.

He probably paid those guards a lot for the right to die.

Is he though?

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