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Document DOJ-OGR-00025478

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Summary: This email chain discusses a media inquiry from the NY Daily News regarding conditions at MCC NY post-Epstein, including morale, staffing, and BOP policies. A draft response is provided, with answers to the reporter's questions redacted. The document highlights the BOP's efforts to manage the narrative around Epstein's death and its aftermath.
Significance: This document reveals the BOP's response to a media inquiry about conditions at MCC NY following Jeffrey Epstein's death, and provides insight into the BOP's communication and transparency regarding the incident.
Key Topics: Conditions at MCC NY post-Epstein Media inquiry by NY Daily News BOP policies and staffing
Key People:
  • [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] - BOP Public Information Office representative handling media inquiry
  • [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] - Reporter at NY Daily News
Document Type
Email
Date
December 6, 2019
Pages
1
Folder
IMAGES009

Full Text

Page 1285 FW: Media inquiry - due today - NY Daily News - re: conditions at MCC NY post-Epstein From: [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] To: Charisma Edge Date: 2019/12/06 15:22 Subject: FW: Media inquiry - due today - NY Daily News - re: conditions at MCC NY post-Epstein Attachments: TEXT.htm Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -----Original message----- From: [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] @bop.gov> Date: 12/6/19 3:05 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] @bop.gov> Cc: [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] @bop.gov> Subject: Media inquiry - due today - NY Daily News - re: conditions at MCC NY post-Epstein > [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] 2/06/2019 15:05 >>> [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] Here is a very rough draft for you and your staff to enhance if possible very quickly today. I can then run it by [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] and my boss before I answer the reporter. Thanks, [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] Reporter: [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] NY DAILY NEWS Questions & Proposed Responses: Hello, I'm working on a story about morale at MCC in Manhattan in the wake of charges against [b(6); (b)(7)(C)]. I've spoken to an AFG The thrust of the story is that morale has plummeted at the facility in the wake of the falsification of documents charges. Morale was already bad because (1) Has any money been allocated for improving MCC as a facility since Epstein's death? [b(5)] (2) Has there been a hiring surge since Epstein's suicide? [b(5)] (3) Any changes in BOP policies following Epstein's suicide? [b(5)] (4) Is it correct that [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] were responsible for roughly 50 to 70 inmates the night of the suicide? [b(5)] (5) What is the attrition rate for BOP correctional officers? What's the average length of time a person stays in the job? (NYC-area would best if it's a [b(5)] (6) Can you share anything supervisors at MCC have told the rank and file in the wake of these charges? What's the message to overworked, disgruntled [b(5)] [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] Public Information Office Federal Bureau of Prisons (202) 353 [b(6); (b)(7)(C)] Page 3896 DOJ-OGR-00025478