So what is the standard operating procedure for making sure cameras are working in a prison?
I would assume they don't just get installed without a proper protocol on maintenance and making sure it's operable.
Otherwise what's the point of having them if you're not going to use or take care of them?
How often are they checked to make sure they are working. Who monitors the camera feed. Did this person know the camera was not working? Why not? Did this person put in an IT ticket for it to get fixed? When?
I've repeated that these major questions below are the ones that need to be answered by this investigation. We can only hope that the investigation proceeds in earnest and is not just being allowed to disappear in the Trump news cycles like so many other issues where they announce at first they will do something, while citizens are looking but as soon as the citizens move on they drop it.
There is no reason I can see why at least a generic comment about the CCTV camera's would not have been released like 'they were all operating properly and once reviewed a report will be forthcoming' and I find it concerning that nothing like that has been announced. And so we wait...
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These major questions that existed prior to the M.E report are still the ones that need answering now:
- why was he taken off suicide watch? Who made that call? Did it follow protocol?
- Protocol calls for an inmate coming off suicide watch to have a low risk cell mate for a period time post the attempt. The claim is he had one assigned but that person had a last minute transfer order and they decided to go thru with the transfer leaving Epstein alone. Who made that call? Prior protocol is reported to be that any such transfers would be delayed until the new cell mate was put in place. Someone over-rode that. How common is that departure? How often would that happen?
- Protocol was that guards should patrol and put eyes on him at a minimum, every 30 minutes (?). On that evening the rounds were not happening. How often would that departure happen?
- he revised his Will two days before his suicide. It is protocol that the Prisons, if aware of that, consider that a key indicator that a person may attempt suicide soon. Were they aware? Did they follow protocol?
- there is CCTV all thru the prison and yet nothing has been reported about what was captured. Why? Were they all operable? Was there any divergence from what is the norm there?
So as you can see pretty much every issue before the M.E report still exists and remains unanswered even this far into what should be a open investigation.