He was likely deemed stable. Suicide watch is very labor-intensive and therefore, expensive. And if you know anything about prisons, jails, and mental health, they will do even less than the absolute bare minimum in order to save a nickel.
He was likely deemed stable. Suicide watch is very labor-intensive and therefore, expensive. And if you know anything about prisons, jails, and mental health, they will do even less than the absolute bare minimum in order to save a nickel.
Let's put it this way then: if anyone wanted him to speak up, they would paid all expenses and then some from their own pockets. It's been nearly 4 years since the last elections, and people still talk about e-mails and tax returns. Can you even imagine the amount of leverage it would provide to know your opponents were (in some way or another) part of a pedophile sex ring? Obviously no one could profit from it, because people were knee-deep in it from both sides.
When did he try his first suicide? Two weeks ago? Does anyone seriously think that there is a mental evaluation which would deem him stable this fast? I had a relative trying to commit suicide, and they were held in a mental ward for months - and they did not even have any incentive to kill themselves, unlike Epstein, who faced a very, very grim future.
I mean, sure, let's hear all kinds of opinions, maybe it is the beginning of 12 angry men, where your assumption of it being a benign accident, nothing more sounds ridiculous at first, but we will eventually come around, but some butterfly-knife action will be needed for people to be swayed. Right now, the argument for it not being (directly or indirectly) a perpetrated by some higher people sounds absolutely unlikely. He wasn't just your regular sex offender John.