But isn’t it just absurd on so many levels that such a high profile person was house in such an understaffed and under trained facility?

Maybe it wasn’t suicide, but it certainly makes sense that it could very well have been. We need more information to figure out if any other theories really make sense.

Most interestingly I wanted to hear why you think inmates forgo stopping inmate suicide these days.

There’s a lot we’ve learned, but here are five facts we know so far:

Guards that were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes didn’t actually check on him for hours before his death, and if that’s not already suspect…they falsified reports to make it look like they did check on him. [1]
–C.O.s ‘guards’ have affixed posts. In the event of being understaffed (a notorious and common problem in corrections) a Sergeants or Senior Officers will “catch up” the time logs. Not always done so out of blatant negligence, but rather in an effort to comply while understaffed. You can’t turn back time, so the assumption made is that the suicide happened within minutes of the most approximate check.

One of the two guards on duty was a new guard who was not a regular corrections officer, but was “temporarily assigned” to the special housing unit the day of the death.[2]
–Again we return to under-staffing. The laws have become very lenient when it comes to whom is qualified to act as a ‘guard’ and under which circumstances. Shift Captains, or whomever the most senior and assigned Officer may place under-qualified corrections personnel in a
number of dangerous posts even if it is obvious that experience/training limitations are exceeded and normal laws bent. I’ve seen this happen in the S.H.U. often, it’s kind of like musical chairs you never know when or where an incident will occur you just hope its not on your shift. This is called “Officer Discretion” and is permitted and practiced at many facilities especially at the state level and those managed by private corporations.

At Epstein’s level of supervision he was required to have a cellmate, but his cellmate was taken out of his cell hours before he died and nobody else put in. [3]
–“Required to have a cellmate” classification makes recommendations(being the key word) such as these. They are based on cellmates having alike-charges, E.O.S., and other similarities. If an inmates makes it known to “guards” that he is not okay with his cellmate (especially in the S.H.U.) they are generally moved (per shift captain approval) to a vacant cell temporarily. The move is then logged and submitted to classifications whom generally only work administrative hours (not night shift). Given the nature of Epstein’s charges and celebrity status. I can see how it was nearly impossible to find a suitable cellmate. Epstein could have very well had a cellmate at the time of his death: The log just needs to reflect that the cellmate was moved out prior to Eptein’s suicide to avoid further issues with O.I.G. but in the “catch up logs” it needs to reflect that he was moved out prior. It might sound crazy to the average person, but over the years it has become so that cellmates don’t even try to stop another inmate’s suicide. They calmly sit on their bunk and don’t get involved. I have some ideas on why this relatively new behavior is taking place, but I don’t want to include conjecture here.

The coroner is being very careful and has still not announced a cause of death, but preliminarily, the autopsy showed he had multiple fractures in his neck bones, something that is more common in death by strangulation than by hanging. [4]
–This hints to a classifications error, that administrative facility personnel are trying to sweep under the rug. In a facility it is always better to deal with a suicide instead of inmate homicide. I would be curious to find out if the original cellmate that Epstein had was even at that facility anymore. When events occur and logs are in ‘disorder’ sometimes inmates get shipped out to other facilities within hours. Unable to be found and questioned by O.I.G. personnel. Warden’s have been known to swap inmates to and from neighboring facilities without asking too many questions, creating plausible deniability.
When his lawyers last spoke with him, his mood was reported to be very positive. [5] — I can’t imagine why his mood would be very positive, but okay. Let’s go with that.

I’m glad to not be a part of that world anymore.
God Bless!