Sasse to Federal Bureau of Prisons head: 'You have an obligation to speak to the girls who were raped by' Epstein

Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, one of the loudest critics of the federal prison system in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell death, shamed the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a lack of transparency.

“With all due respect, you still have an obligation to speak to the girls who were raped by this guy today,” Sasse told Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer during a hearing Tuesday. “You may not speak about the specifics of the charges against those two guards this morning who were taken into custody, but more broadly, you should be able to unpack: Have we changed any processes about how cases like this are handled? It’s been more than 90 days.”