One of them wasn’t even a certified guard.................
About the guards...
NY Times “One of the staff members was a former correctional officer who had taken a different position at the detention center that did not involve guarding detainees. He had volunteered to work again as a correctional officer for the extra overtime pay, a law enforcement official and an employee at the jail said.
The second officer, a woman who was assigned to that wing, had been ordered to work overtime because the jail was short staffed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-jail-officers.html
NBC “According to two officials familiar with the MCC, the wing where Epstein was housed was properly staffed the night of his apparent suicide. One of the correction officers on duty at the time had recently taken a promotion to an administrative position, but was fully trained and had been a guard for seven years.”
SLATE “The two employees—one man and one woman, both working overtime because the jail was short-staffed—”