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PSYCHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF INMATE DEATH
Name: Jeffrey Epstein
Register Number: 76318-054
Date of Death: 08-10-2019
Prepared by: National Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Psychology Services Branch, Central Office
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Mr. Jeffrey Epstein was a 66-year-old, White male who died on August 10, 2019, while housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Complex (MCC), in New York, New York. James C. Wills, former Acting Assistant Director, Reentry Services Division, appointed a team to conduct a psychological reconstruction. The team consisted of National Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Central Office; Sex Offender Treatment Programs Coordinator, Central Office; Mental Health Treatment Coordinator, Central Office; and Correctional Services Administrator, Northeast Regional Office. This reconstruction was established in accordance with Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) Program Statement 5324.08, Suicide Prevention Program.
Social History: Mr. Epstein did not have a Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) available at the time of the reconstruction; therefore, no official information regarding social history was accessible. The following was gathered from publicly available documents. Mr. Epstein was born in 1953 and grew up in a middle-class family in the neighborhood of Sea Gate on Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, with one brother. After early promotion in two grades, Mr. Epstein graduated from Lafayette High School in 1969, at the age of 16. He attended Cooper Union and New York University but did not graduate from either. Mr. Epstein taught at the Dalton School, a private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan from September 1974 until he was