I posted this on another thread; fits here too:
What’s the odds that 2 guards both simultaneously fall asleep for the same 3 hours each, hmmm? Were they both sitting in chairs right next to each other, or sleeping on cots somewhere? Were they both together, or were they simultaneously falling asleep in 2 different locations from each other? Were either of them or both, located very near Jeffrey Epstein’s cell, or were they far far away from it? And did they both wake up simultaneously in order to go to Epstein’s cell to find his dead body?
No other guard in the halls of the prison in the area near Epstein’s cell wandered past these 2 guards, or saw 1 much less 2 sleeping officers who were supposed to be working, and shake them awake? Did the 2 guards not have to check in, or make a call by cell phone to the main desk, at any time during the 3 hours they were supposed to be working and awake?
Did any staff member ever give these 2 guards a phone call to check up on them? Are there no checks and balances on guards knowing it is the middle of the night and that they might just fall asleep? Or were the staff at the main desk sleeping for those same 3 hours too? So many questions, so little time. Answers needed, as this whole episode stinks to high heaven.
Even public toilets have an hourly sign in sheet to make sure they are ok.
Unless I missed it, there has been precious little description of what was going on and how the prison is set up. But I gather there were just two guards, which should be plenty if all the prisoners are locked in cells. There are cameras in the halls but not pointed into the cells. It’s not clear, but from the reporting it appears the two guards, who were working continuous overtime, were supposed to check on all the prisoners every thirty minutes. That would presumably keep them moving virtually all the time. That would be impossible even for a regular shift. If this is true, then the process was set up to fail.
Other posters with prison knowledge have stated that understaffing is a common problem. My former workout buddy, a prison guard, said it was common.