Sheriff FOIA Response: Work Release Docs
From: Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeTo: FOIA Requester
FOIA ResponseSheriff RecordsReleased Documents
PALM BEACH COUNTY — WORK RELEASE RECORDS\n\nRecords of Jeffrey Epstein's work release program during his 13-month county jail sentence (2008-2009).\n\nKey details:\n- Permitted to leave jail 12 hours per day, 6 days per week\n- Worked at the Florida Science Foundation (his own office)\n- Private driver transported him\n- Private security detail at the office\n- Conditions far more lenient than typical work release\n\nThe work release arrangement drew significant criticism and led to an internal investigation by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.\n\nSource: Palm Beach County FOIA
The Epstein Case in 2019
The year 2019 was the most consequential in the Epstein case. In July, Epstein was arrested by the FBI on federal sex trafficking charges in the Southern District of New York. He was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019, in a death ruled a suicide by the medical examiner but disputed by independent pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. The documents from 2019 are among the most extensive in the archive, including the indictment, bail hearing transcripts, autopsy reports, Bureau of Prisons records, and the beginning of the Maxwell investigation.
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