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The jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself is crumbling

Andrew Cuomo

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Once hailed as a prototype for a new kind of federal jail and the most secure in the country, New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center has become a blighted wreck. The jail has deteriorated so badly it’s impossible to safely house inmates there. And so the Justice Department said last month it would close the jail in the coming months to undertake much-needed repairs. But in fact it may never reopen. The Associated Press was granted rare access inside — the first time a reporter has toured the facility since Jeffrey Epstein killed himself there two years ago. 

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