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How I Met The World’s Most Infamous Pedophile

Working suicide watch at MCC federal prison with Jeffrey Epstein

William Mersey
Doing Time

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Certificate indicating author was the lead suicide watcher t MCC federal prison while he knew and monitored Jeffrey Epstein often alone one on one during the last month of his life
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The following is a chapter from my book Doin’ Time: My Year At MCC Federal Prison With Jeffrey Epstein and Paul Manafort. If it feels like the story picks up in midstream, it’s because it does with this chapter mid-book.

To nobody’s surprise, prison is a place and experience which often propels its inmates on a downward spiral to the depths of anxiety and depression. Well aware of this problem, prison administrators have designated programs to handle inmates who’ve reached rock bottom and want to end it all.

Suicidal inmates were certainly not a rarity where I stayed. Prisoners threatened to “hang up” (the colloquial expression used for suicide) on a more or less routine basis.

As such, the prison had a mini tier of suicide cells down on the second floor. Four of them in fact. And somebody had to watch those inmates who’d threatened to kill themselves. So who’s gonna watch them?

In a perfect world, the BOP would hire trained psychologists to do the job. But MCC was far from a perfect world. And the BOP doesn’t have money “like that.” So you guessed it. Inmates got the job! But not to worry. We received a whole 3 to 4 hours of training before being set loose on…

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