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FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Federal prosecutors said Thursday Jan. 9, 2020, that jailhouse video no longer exists of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Feds backtrack on transfer of Epstein warden

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Feds plan to move Epstein warden to prison job

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night before he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter. The federal charges could come as soon as Tuesday and are the first in connection with Epstein’s death.. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

US prison system long plagued by staffing crisis, violence

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

In this July 19, 2019, photo, acting Director of the Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Hurwitz has been removed from his post more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody. Attorney General William Barr announced Hugh Hurwitz’s termination Monday, Aug. 19. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

US prisons chief removed from position after Epstein’s death

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, center, flanked by Hugh Hurwitz, left, the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, and David Muhlhausen, director of the National Institute of Justice, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2019, on developments in the implementation of the First Step Act. About 2,200 federal inmates will be released by the federal Bureau of Prisons under the criminal justice reform measure signed into law last year by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

3K federal inmates released under criminal justice overhaul

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

In this April 1, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Barr: Justice Dept. is ‘all in’ on criminal justice overhaul

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Mississippi prison loses contract, Michigan prison to reopen

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

FBI, Bureau of Prisons ordered to probe LGBTQ discrimination

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

OIG asked to probe response to power outage at NYC jail

Associated Press

Corrections officers restrain a woman, center, who was among dozens of family members of prisoners and protesters objecting to conditions in the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Justice Department to probe federal jail in NYC

By JULIE WALKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Oct 19, 2009, file photo, Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford stares at the media while leaving for lunch during jury selection outside the Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Langford, the terminally ill former mayor of Birmingham, is being released from federal prison after a judge agreed with prison officials Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, that his debilitated medical condition and limited life expectancy warranted a sentence reduction. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Judge agrees to release ailing former mayor from prison

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Officials: Illinois prison to open next year

Associated Press

In this photo taken March 30, 2017, Ismail Royer poses for a photograph in Arlington, Va. Royer was been released from prison after serving more than 13 years on charges that he provided assistance to friends who wanted to join the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks. Dozens of convicts serving time in U.S. prisons for terror-related offenses are slated to be released in the next several years, prompting the question: Should Americans be afraid? (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Inmates serving terror-related sentences slated for release

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Watchdog report: Solitary confinement can harm inmates

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

Watchdog says sick federal inmates held alone for years

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 15, 2010 file photo, the Idaho Correctional Center is shown south of Boise, Idaho, operated by Corrections Corporation of America. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signaled his support for the federal government's use of private prisons, rescinding a memo meant to phase out their use. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)

Justice Department reverses Obama-era decision on private prisons

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is shown Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in Hartsville, Tenn. Tennessee's newest prison has had to halt new admissions after just four months of full operation. A memorandum from a state prison official about the privately run facility says guards there do not have control of the housing units, aren't counting inmates correctly, and are sending them to solitary confinement for no documented reason. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) ** FILE **

Justice Dept. to end use of privately run prisons

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 9, 2016 file photo, Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lynch is urging the nation's governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state-issued identification after they get out of prison, part of a broader plan being announced Monday to help smooth the path for state and federal inmates who are preparing to re-enter society. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ex-convicts may reenter society better with state ID cards

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this May 20, 2013, file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pork back on prison menus following questionable and costly survey to have it removed

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during her weekly news conference in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Pelosi blames feds for sanctuary city killing

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times