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PSYCHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF INMATE DEATH

This is an interim report, due to an inability to gather all necessary data. Formal interviews were not conducted as a part of this reconstruction to avoid interference with pending investigations by other Department of Justice components. A copy of the video is normally made by Special Investigative Staff following a significant incident, but there was no such video in this case since the original video was confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) prior to the beginning of this reconstruction. The absence of these two sources of information severely limited the ability to establish accurate timelines, confirm subjective reports, establish converging and diverging lines of facts, or discover new areas of inquiry. As a result, information typically gathered, reviewed and consolidated during a reconstruction to support actionable findings and recommendations is limited.

Name: Jeffrey Epstein
Register Number: 76318-054

Date of Death: 08-10-2019

Prepared by: [Redacted (b)(6); (b)(7)(C)] 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 [Redacted (b)(6); (b)(7)(C)] National Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Central Office [Redacted (b)(6); (b)(7)(C)] Sex Offender Treatment Programs Coordinator, Central Office; [Redacted (b)(6); (b)(7)(C)] Mental Health Treatment Coordinator, Central Office; and [Redacted (b)(6); (b)(7)(C)] 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

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