EFTA00141772.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE I OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL March 20, 2023 Memorandum For: Chief Office of Internal Affairs Federal Bureau of Prisons Chief External Audits, Planning & Analysis From: Deputy Assistant Inspector General Investigations Division Office of Inspector General Subject: Office of Inspector General's Draft Report entitled Investigation andReview ofthe Federal Bureau ofPrisons' Custody Care, andSupervision ofJeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York Attached to this memorandum is the Office of the Inspector General's draft report entitled Investigation and Review ofthe Federal Bureau ofPrisons' Custody Care, andSupervision ofJeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York, which we plan to release publicly. We are providing this draft report to enable the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to conduct a factual accuracy and sensitivity review. If the BOP believes that any information in the draft report would be inappropriate for public release, please mark the information and indicate the reason the BOP believes it should not be released. Please provide us the results of your factual accuracy and sensitivity review as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, April 19, 2023. We can accept such comments informally and on a rolling basis. If the BOP chooses to submit a formal response to the report, it must do so by this same date. We will incorporate the BOP's response as an appendix to the final report posted on our website. We will not provide any extension of the deadline for the BOP's factual accuracy and sensitivity review or formal response to this report. Because this is a draft report, it should not be disseminated to or discussed with anyone other than those BOP employees who need to review the draft report for factual accuracy or sensitivity purposes or the preparation of the BOP's formal response to the report. In this regard, we request that your office maintain a log of who has been provided access to the draft report and when. We also request that your office emphasize to those reviewing the draft report or its contents the prohibition on further dissemination and EFTA00141772 discussion of the draft report with anyone other than BOP employees, as necessary for the purposes of assessing factual accuracy or sensitivity or preparation of the BOP's formal response. If you have any questions about this memorandum or the draft report, please contact me or Senior Counsel to the Inspector General . Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. cc: Associate Deputy Attorney General 2 EFTA00141773