One of Epstein’s guards was not a corrections officer

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More details have come out on the death of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his prison cell at Manhattan Correctional Center on Saturday.

The Associated Press reports one of the two people who were on duty at the prison and in charge of watching Epstein was not a correctional officer. With shortages of trained correctional officers in some federal prisons, they have resorted to using clerical workers and teachers.

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