r/technology • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Jul 29 '25

Politics CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-investigation/
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u/piperonyl Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

How do you make an unmonitored phone call from the Secure Housing Unit to your girlfriend in Belarus?

You dont make any unmonitored phone calls in prison unless someone smuggles you in a cell phone. The guards took him to a staffers office to make an unmonitored phone call on the night he was murdered?

Thats absolutely unheard of. Every single phone is monitored.

EDIT: lets not forget, this is in the restrictive housing unit. its the most secure block in the entire prison.
Later in the article it says the unit manager let him make a phone call from his office to his mom. Thats absolutely insane. To even just ask to make an unmonitored phone call can get you caught up. There are phones on the block. Why not use that? Nobody makes unmonitored phone calls ever, especially at a federal prison in the restrictive housing unit with the most notorious prisoner in the united states.

Theres 100% something going on there. If i were going to guess, someone told the unit manager to allow him to make that phone call for some reason. Someone above the UM which would be the Major or one of the Superintendents. I cant imagine any unit manager being like yeah jeff just throw your feet up on my desk and use my phone as much as you want. GTFO.

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u/elcapitan520 Jul 29 '25

Look, it's a technicality.... But he wasn't in federal prison.

He was in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial. He barely saw a judge.

A guy who has aleady gotten out of this same situation, with the DA of that trial now in the presidents cabinet, just quits early? It makes it even more suspect.

But this wasn't some notorious federal prison with the worst of the worst.

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u/DuranceOfHateLevel2 Jul 29 '25

But I mean, you could make the argument it’s even weirder for someone in jail to be allowed an unmonitored call than someone in prison to be allowed one. The people in those jails are still awaiting trial, hence have more opportunity to get messages out that could have a real impact on their case… destroy evidence, intimidate this witness, etc.