December 9, 2025 • 17 mins
In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons promised sweeping reforms aimed at preventing another such failure. Those commitments included stricter adherence to suicide-watch protocols, improved staffing and supervision at facilities like the Metropolitan Correctional Center, greater accountability for guard misconduct, and clearer lines of responsibility when inmates are designated as high-risk. Investigations by the DOJ Inspector General laid out glaring institutional failures, from falsified records to exhausted, improperly trained staff working massive overtime. Publicly, the BOP and the Justice Department framed Epstein’s death as a catalyst for overdue reform, assuring lawmakers and the public that meaningful structural changes were underway to restore trust in a system that had catastrophically failed a high-profile detainee.
Years later, those promised reforms remain largely unrealized. Chronic understaffing persists across the federal prison system, with suicide prevention protocols still inconsistently applied and accountability for leadership failures remaining minimal. High-level officials largely avoided serious consequences, while the same institutional culture that allowed Epstein’s detention to be mishandled continues to define the BOP’s operations. Congressional oversight has produced reports and hearings, but little in the way of durable reform, leaving the system vulnerable to the same breakdowns exposed in 2019. The result is a grim reality: Epstein’s death became less a turning point for reform than a case study in how federal institutions absorb scandal, issue promises, and then quietly revert to business as usual.
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Years later, those promised reforms remain largely unrealized. Chronic understaffing persists across the federal prison system, with suicide prevention protocols still inconsistently applied and accountability for leadership failures remaining minimal. High-level officials largely avoided serious consequences, while the same institutional culture that allowed Epstein’s detention to be mishandled continues to define the BOP’s operations. Congressional oversight has produced reports and hearings, but little in the way of durable reform, leaving the system vulnerable to the same breakdowns exposed in 2019. The result is a grim reality: Epstein’s death became less a turning point for reform than a case study in how federal institutions absorb scandal, issue promises, and then quietly revert to business as usual.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on everybody. So tonight we have an article
(00:02):
from the AP and this article has to do with
Bill Barr and the creation of a force, a task
force that's going to deal with misconduct within the prisons.
So again another investigation into the investigators. Don't worry, we'll
investigate ourselves. And Bill Barr has just been such a
(00:26):
solid fellow throughout this whole entire thing and so transparent
that we should just believe everything he says according to
the official narrative. Meanwhile, everybody who's following this case has
a bunch of questions about what is what happened to
Jeffrey Epstein in that prison?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You have videos, supposedly, mister Barr, that you've watched, but
the rest of us haven't had access to this video.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So, like I.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Said, this is an article from the AP and the
headline AP exclusive bar creating task force on prison misconduct.
The article was written by Michael Balsamo and it was
published today Washington, DC. The Justice Department is creating a
special task force to address criminal misconduct by Federal Bureau
(01:13):
of Prison officers at several correctional facilities. After a loaded
gun was found at the same jail where a wealthy
financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself allegedly. Attorney General William
Barr told the Associated Press, Well, isn't that nice? There's
so much misconduct going on at this facility that there
(01:35):
has to be a whole new task force created, more
bureaucracy created. And again, who's going to make up this
task force? People that are already working for the prison
system or the Justice Department. You know, they have all
the incentive in the world to make sure they push
under the rug as much disgusting this as they possibly
as they possibly can, as much misconduct as they possibly can.
(01:58):
Because we know that the Just Department and the Department
of Corrections specifically is just ripe with corruption. We see
it at every one of these prison facilities. How much
more do we have.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
To see it?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And the MCC is certainly a place where there is
just all sorts of misconduct going on. I mean, a
loaded gun was just found there. What sort of federal
facility a lockdown? Is a loaded gun able to be
snuck into? And this is where you're gonna put Jeffrey Epstein. Huh,
somebody that we know was going to at the very
least be interrogated. But you put him in a place
(02:34):
like this where guns can get smuggled into El Chappo's
a couple cells down, his roommates, Nicholas Tartaglioni. The cameras
don't work. You know, all of these coincidences, and we're
just supposed to.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Believe the narrative.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
In an interview with the AP, Bar said he was
planning to establish the task force that would have a
very aggressive review of potential misconduct by correction officers in
certain institutions around the country.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, is this all show or what?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
How much misconduct are you going to admit to anyway
with an internal investigation? How many human rights you know,
atrocities have been committed by certain guards and not all
of them, folks, Right, let's not paint them all with
a broadbrush. I'm sure there's a lot of officers, correctional
officers that are very good people, right. They're just good
people that want to do their job. They want to
(03:27):
go to the facility every day. They want to maintain
their safety, they want to maintain the safety of the inmates,
and they want to go home to their families at night.
But you're always going to have that handful of dirt bags,
and no matter what the profession is, you're always going
to have that handful of undesirables that slip through the
cracks somehow and end up with one of these jobs
where they can be involved in mayhem, be it smuggling
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drugs into the facility, bringing a loaded gun, whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It may be.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
There's always going to be those few bad apples. And
that's not a black eye on the rest of the
correctional officers or people who work in the prison systems. Look,
I'm sure there are so many more good people than
there are bad people. It's not even funny. I'm talking
ninety seven ninety eight percent of the people and probably more,
(04:11):
probably ninety nine percent of the people that are doing
these jobs are just you know, hard working.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Good people.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's the people up above them that where the rot
really starts. And again, don't get me wrong, there are
bad apples in every batch, and there's definitely misconduct going on.
There's definitely people who are doing things that they should
not be doing in a position as a corrections officer,
such as smuggling this gun in drug situations and you know,
(04:38):
various other situations that they're involved in. But that being said,
do we really want the Department of Corrections and the
Justice Department to investigate themselves? Do we trust them to
be completely transparent with the American people and the world
and show exactly what was transpiring under their watch, under
their noses or an alternate scenario, Are they going to
(05:02):
try and save face and sweep the most egregious of
the crimes and miss the misdeeds underneath the rug so.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That they don't look that bad.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, I want to give them the benefit of
the doubt, and I would like to be able to
do that. But the track record is not good for
these government these alphabet offices in the government, you know,
the FBI, Department of Corrections, doc blah blah, blah blah blah,
et cetera, et cetera. Their track record is not good
when it comes to transparency, transparency especially Those facilities include
(05:37):
the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where Epstein
killed himself allegedly last summer, and where federal investigators found
a loaded gun earlier this month. The guns discovery followed
a week long lockdown that turned up other contraband, including
cell phones, narcotics, and homemade weapons, and led to a
criminal probe by prosecutors in Manhattan into guard misscondom misconduct
(06:01):
focusing on the flow of contraband into.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The lock up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, not all of that can be blamed on guard misconduct.
Right When these guys get into these these prison settings,
they have all the time in the world to come
up with ways to make weapons and you know, build
contraband and stuff like that. It's that's gonna happen. And
even drugs getting smuggled in isn't all because of the guards, right,
(06:25):
We can't pin this all on the guards. A lot
of that has to do with people coming to visit.
There's elaborate scheme set up for them to ferry drugs
in and out of the prison system, for people to
mule them in and out, and of course there are
guards on the take, there is no doubt. But we
can't pin all of that on the guards. Now, what
I definitely will say is when it comes to a
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weapon getting in there and a guard being fingered for
smuggling the weapon in, that's horrible work right there. That's terrible.
That's a big black eye for the Department of Corrections.
And this is a group of people of federal bureaucracy
that really can't afford any more black eyes at this point.
Letting Jeffrey Epstein die in your care while your guard
(07:06):
supposedly slept is already on the docket. And now you
have this in the same facility. And Bill Barr is
going to put together a task force of people of
his choosing and probably his friends from the Department of
Corrections choosing on who is going to investigate this? Where
is the oversight? Where is Congress stepping in here and saying, hey,
(07:28):
whoa hold on, wait a minute, we need an independent
look at this. Let's audit this whole entire situation and
see what we have here. But no, it's just business
as usual, folks. The establishment of the task force comes
as the nation's jails and prisons around high alert and
response to the threat of the coronavirus, stepping up inmates screenings,
sanitizing cells, and canceling visitation at all one hundred and
(07:52):
twenty two federal correctional facilities across the country. I don't
disagree with that. Furthermore, they should be disinfecting these quite
a bit. I get that these people are prisoners, right, folks,
And I agree, people that do the crime must do
the time, and a lot of these people don't deserve
to do easy time. But it needs to be a
sanitary situation, or else we're at risk of pandemic or
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epidemic or outbreak of disease, and nobody needs that in
their lives. All Right, we're seeing how disruptive a little
virus can be, right now, Do we really need a
pandemic or I mean an epidemic to break out in
a prison because you know, we decided we didn't want
to sanitize the place. So let's make sure that these
places are sanitary. Okay, not very much to ask here.
I'm not saying that these people should be given a
(08:36):
Cadillac plan when they're doing time.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
There should definitely be different levels for different crimes, but overall,
these places should at the very least be sanitary. Correctional
officers and other Bureau prison staff members who work in
facilities in areas considered hotspots for the coronavirus, or at
medical referral centers which provide advanced care for inmates with
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or acute medical conditions, are also undergoing enhanced health screenings,
including having their temperature taken before they report for duty
each day. That's a good idea. I approve of that. Again,
whatever proactive measures that you can take to mitigate the
spread at this point, I am all for make sure
you're doing it, because we don't want these jail cells
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to become filled with this sort of outbreak or any
sort of outbreak, right that'll cost us more money in
the long run. The ability to smuggle a gun into
the Manhattan Jail, which had been billed as one of
the most secure in America, marked a massive breach of
protocol and raise serious questions about the security practices in
(09:41):
place at the Bureau of Prisons, which is responsible for
more than one hundred and seventy five thousand federal inmates. Yeah,
well it should coming on the heels of what happened
with Jeffrey Epstein, coming on the heels of Epstein dying
in their custody. So one smuggles a gun into the
same facility that El Choppo was as well, that Michael
(10:01):
Avenatti's in right now, that a list of a who's whose,
list of criminals that are now in who are now
in Supermac's facilities.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
We did a bid there.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
We're gonna get guns smuggled into this place, and we're
going to have officers implicated. That's that's not something that's serious,
that's not something that's egregious, that doesn't deserve independent oversight.
It was just the latest crisis at the jail, which
houses a number of high profile inmates, including attorney Michael Avenatti,
who gained who gained fame representing poor an actress Stormy
(10:35):
Daniels in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump. Federal prosecutors alleged
that two correctional officers assigned to watch Epstein's unit were
snoozing and shopping on the internet when he took his
own life in his cell in August, allegedly and later
forged records to make it look like they checked in
on him. I wonder what they were shopping for. I
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thought they were overworked and underpaid. That I heard one
of them was shopping for a motorcycle. Where they get
that money? They must not be that underpaid folks, Huh,
I mean the cynics amongst us, could you know, could
ask some serious questions here, and those questions are all
valid at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Like I've said, I'm not everything's on the table. I'm
not discounting anything at this point. When it comes to
the night of Epstein's passing away in his cell, who
knows Nobody knows the truth, and anybody's saying they do
is lying.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Will Barr Bill Barr.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Is the only one supposedly who's seen these tapes. Why
is he the only one who saw them? Or a
couple of his henchmen maybe as well. Why aren't those
on the news. Why hasn't anyone been able to get
those tapes? The brother, the family of Epstein, Michael Bowden,
the lawyers, nobody can get those tapes.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
If it's so clear cut and dry, Why.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Wouldn't they just want to show it to us and
make it all transparent? But no, no transparency. The guards
that we're supposedly watching Epstein, well they're the ones that
are on the line right now getting the felony charges
thrown at them, and you know they're surfing the internet.
According to the official narrative, what were they looking for?
I thought they were underpaid and overworked. Bar named a
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new director earlier this month to take charge of the
Bureau of Prisons, which has been the subject of intense
scrutiny since Epstein took his own life while in custody
in August. Allegedly, the agency has been plagued for years
by serious misconduct, violence, and staffing shortages so severe that
guards often work overtime day after day are forced to
(12:30):
work mandatory double shifts. Well, I guess you know what,
I guess that does explain why they were searching the internet, right,
buying motorcycles and shit. If they're working double shifts and
all this overtime, they must be making big do So.
A lot of people work overtime. A lot of people
work double shifts. People aren't falling asleep on their job
at their job, right, not very often.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I used to work a lot of double shifts when
I worked in entertainment, forget it, eighteen nineteen hour days,
fifteen sixteen days straight, sometimes when we had all kinds
of crazy stuff going on. So I never fell asleep
at work. And my job wasn't sitting around watching a computer,
that's for sure. So I don't want to hear you know, Oh, well,
they fell asleep, it's just these two guards.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I doubt it was just these two guards.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It was probably something going on with all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh well, let's just go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Nobody's nobody's watching us anyway. Again, no oversight. Where is Congress?
After Barswarren Michael carvel Hall as the new director of
the Bureau of Prisons. The two met privately, and carve
Hall told him he wanted to step up substantially enforcement
efforts against correctional officers or managers who engage in wrongdoing.
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The Attorney General said, look, the people who were in
charge of those two guards the night of Epstein's death,
those managers, everyone up to the manager on duty, whoever
that is, should also be fired. There has to be
somebody who with some accountability, right, somebody with some accountability
that steps up and says, look, the buck stops here.
(14:00):
I screwed up. These are my people. If they're going down,
I'm in trouble as well, because the buck stops with me.
But there's never any of that in these bureaucracies. Bar
said he didn't believe there were systematic issues in the
entire federal prison system, but he said officials need to
focus on some facilities where they've uncovered problems. I mean, again,
(14:21):
he's unwilling to grasp the seriousness of this. He's unwilling
to step up and do what he needs to do
to fix the Department of Corrections.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
He just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He wants to give off the air that he's involved,
that he's fixing it. But meanwhile, the Department of Corrections
is an absolute and utter mess and an embarrassment. When
a man like Epstein is dying in your care, you
have all the responsibility in the world to make sure
that this guy does not die in your custody, that
he faces justice.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Bar said.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
With the leadership changes that the Breau Bureau of Prisons
include the appointment of Carba Hall and his immediate predecessor,
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who remains at the agency as a
senior advisor, he is very optimistic we'll be able to
turn things around at the agency. Will that makes one
of us, mister Barr, how about some transparency. How about
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you show us the video? Can we see the video?
Maybe we need to get that trending on Twitter. Maybe
that needs to be as something that trends because we
show us that video and end it, and then that
would wrap up at least one thread in the case.
Then if he committed suicide. Fine, I'm perfectly willing to
admit that and accept that, you know, whatever, wherever the
(15:38):
evidence leads, like I always say on the podcast, wherever
the evidence leads. But there is not enough evidence here
for us to close the case and say, well, that's it.
It was a suicide. No pictures of the body. Everything
about it smacks of garbage, smacks of ineptitude, smacks of
complete and utter failure by the whole entire staff involved,
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and it's unacceptable. So until we see that video, there's
gonna be questions, mister Barr, on this podcast and elsewhere,
and you can't blame us. You can't blame anybody who
has questions. When there's supposed video out there and nobody
wants to show it to you, Well, we have a
right to see that as citizens of this country. We're
paying for all of this, and not only that, the
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family and the survivors have a right to see it
as well for closure purposes. This isn't a national security issue.
This is a video of supposedly Jeffrey Epstein dying, or
at the very least the doors to the entrance where
Epstein was which who nobody's believing that either, So again, Still,
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there's a lot of room for questioning here, folks. I
don't blame you if you're still rolling your eyes and
saying yeah, okay, sure, because guess what, the majority of
the country is with you. The stooges in the mainstream
media might try and den it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Great you and.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, conspiracy theory, this conspiracy theory that well, meanwhile, running
off on whatever weird ask conspiracy theory they're pitching and
gaslighting the American public with on that night, that the
same night that they're calling you a conspiracy theorist because
you have some questions about what occurred in that facility. Meanwhile,
everything that's unfolding after that points in the direction of
(17:22):
something really bad going down. All of these investigations now
task force people being moved around. Sure doesn't seem like business.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is usual to me, folks.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
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Speaker 2 (17:52):
All Right,
What's going on everybody. So tonight we have an article
(00:02):
from the AP and this article has to do with
Bill Barr and the creation of a force, a task
force that's going to deal with misconduct within the prisons.
So again another investigation into the investigators. Don't worry, we'll
investigate ourselves. And Bill Barr has just been such a
(00:26):
solid fellow throughout this whole entire thing and so transparent
that we should just believe everything he says according to
the official narrative. Meanwhile, everybody who's following this case has
a bunch of questions about what is what happened to
Jeffrey Epstein in that prison?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You have videos, supposedly, mister Barr, that you've watched, but
the rest of us haven't had access to this video.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So, like I.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Said, this is an article from the AP and the
headline AP exclusive bar creating task force on prison misconduct.
The article was written by Michael Balsamo and it was
published today Washington, DC. The Justice Department is creating a
special task force to address criminal misconduct by Federal Bureau
(01:13):
of Prison officers at several correctional facilities. After a loaded
gun was found at the same jail where a wealthy
financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself allegedly. Attorney General William
Barr told the Associated Press, Well, isn't that nice? There's
so much misconduct going on at this facility that there
(01:35):
has to be a whole new task force created, more
bureaucracy created. And again, who's going to make up this
task force? People that are already working for the prison
system or the Justice Department. You know, they have all
the incentive in the world to make sure they push
under the rug as much disgusting this as they possibly
as they possibly can, as much misconduct as they possibly can.
(01:58):
Because we know that the Just Department and the Department
of Corrections specifically is just ripe with corruption. We see
it at every one of these prison facilities. How much
more do we have.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
To see it?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And the MCC is certainly a place where there is
just all sorts of misconduct going on. I mean, a
loaded gun was just found there. What sort of federal
facility a lockdown? Is a loaded gun able to be
snuck into? And this is where you're gonna put Jeffrey Epstein. Huh,
somebody that we know was going to at the very
least be interrogated. But you put him in a place
(02:34):
like this where guns can get smuggled into El Chappo's
a couple cells down, his roommates, Nicholas Tartaglioni. The cameras
don't work. You know, all of these coincidences, and we're
just supposed to.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Believe the narrative.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
In an interview with the AP, Bar said he was
planning to establish the task force that would have a
very aggressive review of potential misconduct by correction officers in
certain institutions around the country.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, is this all show or what?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
How much misconduct are you going to admit to anyway
with an internal investigation? How many human rights you know,
atrocities have been committed by certain guards and not all
of them, folks, Right, let's not paint them all with
a broadbrush. I'm sure there's a lot of officers, correctional
officers that are very good people, right. They're just good
people that want to do their job. They want to
(03:27):
go to the facility every day. They want to maintain
their safety, they want to maintain the safety of the inmates,
and they want to go home to their families at night.
But you're always going to have that handful of dirt bags,
and no matter what the profession is, you're always going
to have that handful of undesirables that slip through the
cracks somehow and end up with one of these jobs
where they can be involved in mayhem, be it smuggling
(03:47):
drugs into the facility, bringing a loaded gun, whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It may be.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
There's always going to be those few bad apples. And
that's not a black eye on the rest of the
correctional officers or people who work in the prison systems. Look,
I'm sure there are so many more good people than
there are bad people. It's not even funny. I'm talking
ninety seven ninety eight percent of the people and probably more,
(04:11):
probably ninety nine percent of the people that are doing
these jobs are just you know, hard working.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Good people.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's the people up above them that where the rot
really starts. And again, don't get me wrong, there are
bad apples in every batch, and there's definitely misconduct going on.
There's definitely people who are doing things that they should
not be doing in a position as a corrections officer,
such as smuggling this gun in drug situations and you know,
(04:38):
various other situations that they're involved in. But that being said,
do we really want the Department of Corrections and the
Justice Department to investigate themselves? Do we trust them to
be completely transparent with the American people and the world
and show exactly what was transpiring under their watch, under
their noses or an alternate scenario, Are they going to
(05:02):
try and save face and sweep the most egregious of
the crimes and miss the misdeeds underneath the rug so.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That they don't look that bad.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, I want to give them the benefit of
the doubt, and I would like to be able to
do that. But the track record is not good for
these government these alphabet offices in the government, you know,
the FBI, Department of Corrections, doc blah blah, blah blah blah,
et cetera, et cetera. Their track record is not good
when it comes to transparency, transparency especially Those facilities include
(05:37):
the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where Epstein
killed himself allegedly last summer, and where federal investigators found
a loaded gun earlier this month. The guns discovery followed
a week long lockdown that turned up other contraband, including
cell phones, narcotics, and homemade weapons, and led to a
criminal probe by prosecutors in Manhattan into guard misscondom misconduct
(06:01):
focusing on the flow of contraband into.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The lock up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, not all of that can be blamed on guard misconduct.
Right When these guys get into these these prison settings,
they have all the time in the world to come
up with ways to make weapons and you know, build
contraband and stuff like that. It's that's gonna happen. And
even drugs getting smuggled in isn't all because of the guards, right,
(06:25):
We can't pin this all on the guards. A lot
of that has to do with people coming to visit.
There's elaborate scheme set up for them to ferry drugs
in and out of the prison system, for people to
mule them in and out, and of course there are
guards on the take, there is no doubt. But we
can't pin all of that on the guards. Now, what
I definitely will say is when it comes to a
(06:46):
weapon getting in there and a guard being fingered for
smuggling the weapon in, that's horrible work right there. That's terrible.
That's a big black eye for the Department of Corrections.
And this is a group of people of federal bureaucracy
that really can't afford any more black eyes at this point.
Letting Jeffrey Epstein die in your care while your guard
(07:06):
supposedly slept is already on the docket. And now you
have this in the same facility. And Bill Barr is
going to put together a task force of people of
his choosing and probably his friends from the Department of
Corrections choosing on who is going to investigate this? Where
is the oversight? Where is Congress stepping in here and saying, hey,
(07:28):
whoa hold on, wait a minute, we need an independent
look at this. Let's audit this whole entire situation and
see what we have here. But no, it's just business
as usual, folks. The establishment of the task force comes
as the nation's jails and prisons around high alert and
response to the threat of the coronavirus, stepping up inmates screenings,
sanitizing cells, and canceling visitation at all one hundred and
(07:52):
twenty two federal correctional facilities across the country. I don't
disagree with that. Furthermore, they should be disinfecting these quite
a bit. I get that these people are prisoners, right, folks,
And I agree, people that do the crime must do
the time, and a lot of these people don't deserve
to do easy time. But it needs to be a
sanitary situation, or else we're at risk of pandemic or
(08:15):
epidemic or outbreak of disease, and nobody needs that in
their lives. All Right, we're seeing how disruptive a little
virus can be, right now, Do we really need a
pandemic or I mean an epidemic to break out in
a prison because you know, we decided we didn't want
to sanitize the place. So let's make sure that these
places are sanitary. Okay, not very much to ask here.
I'm not saying that these people should be given a
(08:36):
Cadillac plan when they're doing time.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
There should definitely be different levels for different crimes, but overall,
these places should at the very least be sanitary. Correctional
officers and other Bureau prison staff members who work in
facilities in areas considered hotspots for the coronavirus, or at
medical referral centers which provide advanced care for inmates with
(09:00):
or acute medical conditions, are also undergoing enhanced health screenings,
including having their temperature taken before they report for duty
each day. That's a good idea. I approve of that. Again,
whatever proactive measures that you can take to mitigate the
spread at this point, I am all for make sure
you're doing it, because we don't want these jail cells
(09:21):
to become filled with this sort of outbreak or any
sort of outbreak, right that'll cost us more money in
the long run. The ability to smuggle a gun into
the Manhattan Jail, which had been billed as one of
the most secure in America, marked a massive breach of
protocol and raise serious questions about the security practices in
(09:41):
place at the Bureau of Prisons, which is responsible for
more than one hundred and seventy five thousand federal inmates. Yeah,
well it should coming on the heels of what happened
with Jeffrey Epstein, coming on the heels of Epstein dying
in their custody. So one smuggles a gun into the
same facility that El Choppo was as well, that Michael
(10:01):
Avenatti's in right now, that a list of a who's whose,
list of criminals that are now in who are now
in Supermac's facilities.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
We did a bid there.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
We're gonna get guns smuggled into this place, and we're
going to have officers implicated. That's that's not something that's serious,
that's not something that's egregious, that doesn't deserve independent oversight.
It was just the latest crisis at the jail, which
houses a number of high profile inmates, including attorney Michael Avenatti,
who gained who gained fame representing poor an actress Stormy
(10:35):
Daniels in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump. Federal prosecutors alleged
that two correctional officers assigned to watch Epstein's unit were
snoozing and shopping on the internet when he took his
own life in his cell in August, allegedly and later
forged records to make it look like they checked in
on him. I wonder what they were shopping for. I
(10:55):
thought they were overworked and underpaid. That I heard one
of them was shopping for a motorcycle. Where they get
that money? They must not be that underpaid folks, Huh,
I mean the cynics amongst us, could you know, could
ask some serious questions here, and those questions are all
valid at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Like I've said, I'm not everything's on the table. I'm
not discounting anything at this point. When it comes to
the night of Epstein's passing away in his cell, who
knows Nobody knows the truth, and anybody's saying they do
is lying.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Will Barr Bill Barr.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Is the only one supposedly who's seen these tapes. Why
is he the only one who saw them? Or a
couple of his henchmen maybe as well. Why aren't those
on the news. Why hasn't anyone been able to get
those tapes? The brother, the family of Epstein, Michael Bowden,
the lawyers, nobody can get those tapes.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
If it's so clear cut and dry, Why.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Wouldn't they just want to show it to us and
make it all transparent? But no, no transparency. The guards
that we're supposedly watching Epstein, well they're the ones that
are on the line right now getting the felony charges
thrown at them, and you know they're surfing the internet.
According to the official narrative, what were they looking for?
I thought they were underpaid and overworked. Bar named a
(12:10):
new director earlier this month to take charge of the
Bureau of Prisons, which has been the subject of intense
scrutiny since Epstein took his own life while in custody
in August. Allegedly, the agency has been plagued for years
by serious misconduct, violence, and staffing shortages so severe that
guards often work overtime day after day are forced to
(12:30):
work mandatory double shifts. Well, I guess you know what,
I guess that does explain why they were searching the internet, right,
buying motorcycles and shit. If they're working double shifts and
all this overtime, they must be making big do So.
A lot of people work overtime. A lot of people
work double shifts. People aren't falling asleep on their job
at their job, right, not very often.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I used to work a lot of double shifts when
I worked in entertainment, forget it, eighteen nineteen hour days,
fifteen sixteen days straight, sometimes when we had all kinds
of crazy stuff going on. So I never fell asleep
at work. And my job wasn't sitting around watching a computer,
that's for sure. So I don't want to hear you know, Oh, well,
they fell asleep, it's just these two guards.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I doubt it was just these two guards.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It was probably something going on with all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh well, let's just go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Nobody's nobody's watching us anyway. Again, no oversight. Where is Congress?
After Barswarren Michael carvel Hall as the new director of
the Bureau of Prisons. The two met privately, and carve
Hall told him he wanted to step up substantially enforcement
efforts against correctional officers or managers who engage in wrongdoing.
(13:40):
The Attorney General said, look, the people who were in
charge of those two guards the night of Epstein's death,
those managers, everyone up to the manager on duty, whoever
that is, should also be fired. There has to be
somebody who with some accountability, right, somebody with some accountability
that steps up and says, look, the buck stops here.
(14:00):
I screwed up. These are my people. If they're going down,
I'm in trouble as well, because the buck stops with me.
But there's never any of that in these bureaucracies. Bar
said he didn't believe there were systematic issues in the
entire federal prison system, but he said officials need to
focus on some facilities where they've uncovered problems. I mean, again,
(14:21):
he's unwilling to grasp the seriousness of this. He's unwilling
to step up and do what he needs to do
to fix the Department of Corrections.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
He just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He wants to give off the air that he's involved,
that he's fixing it. But meanwhile, the Department of Corrections
is an absolute and utter mess and an embarrassment. When
a man like Epstein is dying in your care, you
have all the responsibility in the world to make sure
that this guy does not die in your custody, that
he faces justice.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Bar said.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
With the leadership changes that the Breau Bureau of Prisons
include the appointment of Carba Hall and his immediate predecessor,
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who remains at the agency as a
senior advisor, he is very optimistic we'll be able to
turn things around at the agency. Will that makes one
of us, mister Barr, how about some transparency. How about
(15:16):
you show us the video? Can we see the video?
Maybe we need to get that trending on Twitter. Maybe
that needs to be as something that trends because we
show us that video and end it, and then that
would wrap up at least one thread in the case.
Then if he committed suicide. Fine, I'm perfectly willing to
admit that and accept that, you know, whatever, wherever the
(15:38):
evidence leads, like I always say on the podcast, wherever
the evidence leads. But there is not enough evidence here
for us to close the case and say, well, that's it.
It was a suicide. No pictures of the body. Everything
about it smacks of garbage, smacks of ineptitude, smacks of
complete and utter failure by the whole entire staff involved,
(16:03):
and it's unacceptable. So until we see that video, there's
gonna be questions, mister Barr, on this podcast and elsewhere,
and you can't blame us. You can't blame anybody who
has questions. When there's supposed video out there and nobody
wants to show it to you, Well, we have a
right to see that as citizens of this country. We're
paying for all of this, and not only that, the
(16:25):
family and the survivors have a right to see it
as well for closure purposes. This isn't a national security issue.
This is a video of supposedly Jeffrey Epstein dying, or
at the very least the doors to the entrance where
Epstein was which who nobody's believing that either, So again, Still,
(16:45):
there's a lot of room for questioning here, folks. I
don't blame you if you're still rolling your eyes and
saying yeah, okay, sure, because guess what, the majority of
the country is with you. The stooges in the mainstream
media might try and den it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Great you and.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, conspiracy theory, this conspiracy theory that well, meanwhile, running
off on whatever weird ask conspiracy theory they're pitching and
gaslighting the American public with on that night, that the
same night that they're calling you a conspiracy theorist because
you have some questions about what occurred in that facility. Meanwhile,
everything that's unfolding after that points in the direction of
(17:22):
something really bad going down. All of these investigations now
task force people being moved around. Sure doesn't seem like business.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is usual to me, folks.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, if you'd like to contact me, you can
do that at Bobby Kapuci at ProtonMail dot com. That's
b O b b y c A p U c
c I at ProtonMail dot com. You can also find
me at Twitter on Twitter at bo bb y underscores
c A p U c c I.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
All Right,
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