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  All it took was a powerful rapist to make changes! Geez what a coincidence.
context: "All cameras will be fixed, but may be broken again in the future, if such time is convenient" >
  
  They will be fixed, but the footage will be accidentally deleted.  Coincidentally the back-up system also has captured and archived footage of the wrong cell. >
  
  Sent a signal to the entire world that the US Justice system isn't real and even the most high value prisoners can and will be killed.
  Trump could have dragged that trial on for years.  He could have used it and made himself into the President that Stopped the Pedos.  It would have been his Bin Laden, except for billionaire hollywood pedophiles.  It would have guaranteed the GOP the presidency for years.
  And they just... "let" him die?  No, they killed him. >
  
  Trump was one of his customers. He would have been incriminating himself. Trump repeatedly had Mr. Epstein as a guest judge at his underage beauty contests. Trump also walked into the girls’ dressing rooms unannounced. Several times. >
  
  Oh I know.  That's the only explanation for why they weren't parading this guy around on Fox News, saying "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him, the Pedo King".  Guarding him with Seal Teams and 800 different brands of cameras, because the future of the GOP presidency would have been with that show trial.
  They gave up the presidency to have King Pedo killed. >
  
  The icky part of this there was enough demand for the Pedo King to be well the Pedo King. So there gotta be a new Lord Pedo at a minimum with at least a cool bus if not ~~his~~ a plane. >
  
  Given that neither the end users, nor all purveyors arrested charged and jailed.
  Basically we got one link in the chain, and the others will happily integrate a new link >
  
  We got billionaires' street level dealer, that's all >
  
  Succinct and nail on the head. >
  
  Not to mention pretty terrifying and disheartening. >
  
  I hope the name of this bill is “Epstein didn’t kill himself” >
  
  Prison Camera Reform Act >
  
  Jeffrey Epstein Act >
  
  Eh, rather they didn't give him the fame to be honest. >
  
  “Not Allowing Rapists The Easy Way Out Act” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. >
  
  No, it really doesn't.
  How about the "No Easy Way Out Act"? >
  
  He didn't kill himself, though. >
  
  I mean the longer this goes on, the more I'm starting to wonder if he did.
  Most of the supposedly suspicious details can be explained away by poor infrastructure and uncaring over worked guards (neither of which are uncommon in American prisons), the actual prison itself was a dump barely held together by rat droppings and sweat, and nothings emerged that's really unexplainable despite the entire world going over this case with a fine toothed comb for three years. >
  
  Was jailer. He absolutely did not kill himself. Even in the shithole I worked at, we had deaths... not one successful suicide. We make it very hard. 
  Had one death with a guy have ming seizures all night. Absolute negligence from the deputies, jailer, etc. 
  Still not one successful suicide. Attempts? Yeah, successes? Nope. >
  
  At least 4 people committed suicide in NY jails in 2022 out of the like 19+ people who died while in custody.
  So while you may be batting 1000, the NY county jails aren't.
  I realized he might have been in a place to kill himself after hearing he was a favorite mark in jail and people were scamming him and shit and that supposedly got him depressed and suicidal when he realized none of his money could buy him particularly special treatment. 
  It's possible he was killed, I give it 50/50. >
  
  Honestly good. Its disgraceful just how many prisons accept broken camera's.
  What the hell is the point of having camera's if no one bothers to maintain them? >
  
  The point is to shed guilt from the prison when they leave violent non-compatible inmates in the same block and one kills the other. "We followed regulations but we cannot control every situation when inmates damage the prison property." That's all they have to say and they are no longer responsible for the lack of camera. The US prison system will go into the history books as the largest concentration camp known to man. It's a system built around recidivism and lacks any tools for reintegration or finding a real place in society. They hide behind their GED programs and trade knowledge, but most of that is either state granted which gives extra money to the prison anyways for it, and it again allows the prison to put another gold star on their hat when asked what they are doing to rehabilitate these men and women. >
  
  It's not a conspiracy, just simple bureaucracy and resource management.  Staffing conditions in federal prisons are at the point where employees have to work mandatory overtime and ordinary employees have to act as correctional officers.  It's called augmentation.  If they can't even hire correctional officers or enough people to get by without mandatory overtime, you can see why they also don't have anyone to fix the cameras or go through the process of getting them fixed. >
  
  At some point it's warranted to call out those responsible for the staffing conditions. Those in charge know what happens to badly run institutions and that overworked, overstressed wardens will let out their frustration on the people they're supposed to care for (and that's valid everywhere in caretaking, from schools over hospitals to police and prisons) - and IMHO, that makes it worse. The sentence a prisoner is subjected to is a removal of their freedom to move, not being forced to eat rotten food or get raped. >
  
  Haha, the warden? No, this isn't the Shawshank Redemption.  The cause of the staffing problems is, first, federal hiring and budgetary policy, including a freeze instituted by Trump. Then you have COVID and worsening conditions from the budgetary and hiring policies compounding that make people leave. Bureaucracy >
  
  Whatever, where is the list of visitors to that island? >
  
  I've worked for a CCTV company and installed cameras in prisons. Most don't want to pay DigitalWatchdog prices for equipment so they go with the lowest bid. What you end up with is cheaply made cameras from China using some stolen hikvision firmware that's a decade out of date and baked in *telnet* credentials. They generally need to be serviced constantly as some cameras will last years while others will last weeks. >
  
  Hikvision and Dahua are cancer. No, I most certainly do not want a device that constantly phones home to China on my network, thanks.
  There's a reason they're so cheap. >
  
  And the problem is that more and more cameras are known to phone home... And american camera are expensive and not great... Sadly, the 'best' deal right now is a chinese camera on an isolated network, with a trustable NVR, which you lock out of the net except for the required ports for remote monitoring IF you want it... :( >
  
  Yep, much better to use a hikvision or dahua on an isolated network than use nest, ring or simply safe crap that only works if you also pay for the privilege of your cameras sending live feeds to them. >
  
  Alittle late now, maybe they should pass a bill forcing the feds to arrest everyone in epsteins black book before they die of old age >
  
  The same black book that turned out to be nothing more than an overhyped media story regarding a mundane address book that even included the contractors, caters and cleaners that Epstein hired for his events? And the restaurants he had dinner at?
  Sure cause their is nothing better for the feds to do than harass Enrico, Rosa and poor old Mr Domenico right? >
  
  I imagine the ultra wealthy owner and operator of Rape Island probably had more than his cleaning lady’s number >
  
  Because we all know our federal prison system always implements things according to standards. I wonder what the penalty would be for not following the law. A small fine at the most. >
  
  
  There going to review it regularly though, so that's something.
  
  Oh thank goodness.  Every time a camera fails they will 'review' the bill.  Toothy.
  Also, "they're," not "there" >
  
  Well the wording of the bill states they have to report each failure and a plan for fixture, along with timescales and cost.
  Regularly reviewing is going to make it a bit hard to just ignore this. >
  
  Damaged. 
  Power outage. 
  Disk failure. 
  Forgot to press record. 
  Down for maintenance. 
  Blind spot. 
  Out of focus. 
  Accidentally moved to point in the wrong direction. 
  Lens obstructed. 
  Solar flare interrupting the circuitry 
  ……. >
  
  I mean, yes to all these possibilities, but these cameras are hardened, in security enclosures, and ran to secure locations.  No reason they should fail this much. >
  
  Next do McDonald's ice cream machines >
  
  Relevant - “Why is the Ice Cream Machine Always Broken at McDonald’s?” >
  
  The employees don't wanna clean it again after they already did it >
  
  As a former McDonald's employee, this is the correct answer, in my experience.
  I worked there for about 6 months, and during that time the machine never broke. I usually began to tear down/clean the machine 10 minutes prior to close. There were a couple times within that timeframe someone came in to order a milkshake or something, and I usually just told them I'd already taken the machine apart, but if they really felt like waiting, I could put it back together. They never felt like waiting. >
  
  "We will fix them after the FTX guy..."
  "What do you mean... After?"
  "Huh? Nothing! I didn't say Sam Bankman Freid"
  "..."
  "Ok, bye!" >
  
  At first glance, my dumb ass thought someone named Bill was forcing specific feds to fix specific prison cameras. >
  
  Whoever this Bill guy is he's sure working hard. >
  
  He doesn't want to be Will, who gets fired at a lot. >
  
  What a rather meaningless gesture in the broad scope >
  
  Having to force prisons to take security seriously is kind of sad >
  
  camera broke, we’ll fix it after we hang the prisoner on suicide watch from his doorknob >
  
  We just need to be at the place where if the cameras are off the police and guards are charged as if it was willful and proof of their guilt. I'm not anti cop but in a bureaucracy nothing gets fixed until specific people are held accountable. >
  
  Give every prisoner a body cam and watch prison violence and operation costs plummet.
  The only reason the cameras don’t work is American fetishization of violence against criminals.  It’s high time that ended >
  
  Release the names of his clients and prosecute them. >
  
  Government and the wealthy: lmao >
  
  why the fuck does there need to be a law passed to fix broken security? our country is so fucked up >
  
  Bold of you to assume anyone inside the prison wants working cameras. >
  
  the older I get, the more I laugh when I see news stories like this. At this point does anyone actually believe they are truly working hard to "better" the accountability systems for privatized prisons? Or anything government related for that matter. It never stops feeling like a smoke and mirror show, not sure if it ever will. >
  
  8% of all US prisoners are in privately-owned prisons. This has nothing to do with private corporate greed or capitalism >
  
  This will not affect anything because it is an inside job. There will always be many ways around it if they are working with the government/prison. >
  
  Life isn't a Tom Clancy novel >
  
  Corruption and bureaucratic rot are so prevalent in the US that it’s shocking how few Americans even realize it. >
  
  I'm amazed they even need a bill that forces them to fix cameras.
  Such a bizarre thing. >
  
  Another useless bill to give a private company, which one or more politicians have connections to, billions of dollars to "fix" the cameras. >
  
  little fucking late now isn't assholes. and what's to stop them from suddenly being broken the next time they want to pull some shit like this >
  
  Corrupt officials will give contracts to substandard contractors and pocket tons of cash >
  
  Even if the cameras had been “working” in Epstein’s cell block, there would’ve been a power failure. >
  
  I mean none of the camera's were actually in Epstein's cell or focused on him, they were all in the hallway outside (plus only three broke. The one's showing both enterance to the hallway were fine).
  Likewise Epstein's cell had a computer controlled door. If their was a power failure, then it would have locked down until the power came back on. >
  
  Its interesting, it seems like he committed suicide and the footage was conveniently not available. The security guards were new or something right? The way it lines up is strange. >
  
  Potentially unpopular, unbelievable opinion for y’all here, but cctv being down and a business or government entity not fixing them promptly- totally believable.
  The newest generation of digital dome cameras were very prone to shorting out, especially during power surges.
  Actually, the newer the cameras get, the more prone to going down they get. It’s basically planned obsolescence. 
  Now they push these 360 cams that are harder to work (at least in the conditions I work) and don’t have as good of a picture, but have no moving parts. They’d probably work better in the prison environment, but I’m not sure how long they last.
  But anyway, long winded way of saying ‘yes, the fact that a camera happened to be out when Epstein died is completely believable.’ >
  
  
  Or the prison was so utterly horribly maintained they literally had rats and raw sewage following across the floor.
  
  Oh boy, that should be the real story right? But we don't give a shit about the incarcerated. >
  
  Yeah that's what the article I linked was talking about.
  Their had been multiple reports warning the prison was a hellhole, but no one cared.
  People still don't. >
  
  Crazy that Jeffrey Epstein is the face of this article but the thousands of regular inmates of color weren’t enough recourse to “fix” this conveniently “broken” system years ago. This place is a joke. >
  
  Can we please pass a law that every prison guard can’t fall asleep at the same time, and the most important prisoner in the US/world can’t be left unmonitored for 1 second of the day. Is this to much to ask for? >
  
  What a god dam joke. And people buy this shit? There needs to be a bill to fix the most basic of shit?  The Feds, yeah yeah we fixed them. And then they break again just before a planned event. Whoops >
  
  O no they Epstened themselves in the back of the prison transport where we don't have cameras! >
  
  Are we really going to pretend we don’t know what happened here? I mean, really? >
  
  I like to think at this point everyone knows he hanged himself. >
  
  Only during the time the cameras were down. Grow up. >
  
  I mean it doesn't matter if the camera's were working or not, they weren't in the cell with him.
  And he was in a prison that a report in 2015 stated that up to 15% of the camera's were broken. >
  
  Cameras.
  Stop adding an unnecessary apostrophe >
  
  Very well. But I'm still kind of right even I can't spell. >
  
  Sounds like you’re the narcissist, so maybe you’d fit right in. Commenting more than anyone else on this thread. Cringe >
  
  That's how you define a narcissist? >
  
  Does commenting 25 times in a thread make you a narcissist? No, dumbass. >
  
  I asked because I was generous and wanted your opinion, that's not any way to diagnose someone of being a narcissist. Read up on narcissistic traits dumbass.
  And why do you answer "no" in the end you contradicting dumbass.
  You're throwing out baseless insults, what does that make you? I'm going to let it be unsaid because thirds time the charm and perhaps even for dumbasses >
  
  Hey wait just turn them back on >
  
  Great.  How about fixing daylight saving time now. >
  
  Cool, do power substations next. >
  
  Security camera companies just made millions! >
  
  Who is Bill and why does he keep fucking up shit like this? >
  
  Should have called it the Camera Reform Act for Prisons (CRAP). >
  
  Why are Feds responsible for fixing cameras at mostly privately owned prisons? >
  
  Conveniently, a little late in the game. Eh, boys? >
  
  Clowns. After what happened it’s really hard to take the US seriously. >
  
  Guess Sam Backman fried got out before he could be epsteined so now there doing this... to help prevent this >
  
  Is it called Jeffrey’s law? >
  
  A rather meaningless gesture in the grand scheme of things >
  
  Ok but who is this Bill? >
  
  Well that loophole is gone now, they need to make the suicides happen in the restrooms now. >
  
  You want tell me 7-11 have more reliable cameras than the government of the United State >
  
  Can’t believe you need to make it a law to upkeep basic security. >
  
  There’s also a law against murdering inmates, but whatever. >
  
  Since the camera's weren't broken, I imagine someone will just pocket the cash.. >
  
  Um what are you talking about? The camera's were broken.
  Likewise reports of camera's being broken throughout American prisons have been going on for years at this point. >
  
  Not broken as in "turned off and we said they were broken" I suspect is what he was alluding to. >
  
  I did not see that happening. >
  
  This Bill will do nothing.
  If there ever is a time again with someone like Epstein the cameras will “break”, the cameras will be “misconfigured” there might be a slap on the wrist maybe a fine. No one will get prosecuted. >
  
  They’re PoE cameras. Just happened to be doing a switch iOS upgrade at the exact moment . Why is that so hard to believe >
  
  Face it. We’ve had a pedophile as a president. I know women that love Trump, even with all of his words and actions as a top tier misogynist. >
  
  Just one? >
  
  Only one I’m certain of. It wouldn’t shock me if there are more, especially in the early stages of this once great country. >
  
  I watch a lot of Forensic Files, and the fact that Cleetus McKnucklefucker can be convicted of a murder commited using a tire spoon due to evidence collected from a toothbrush he borrowed from his catahoola in middle school tells me all I need to know about how thorough the investigation into Jeffery Epstein's death was. >
  
  Maybe put a few Billion of those defense forces into the prisons in America. >
  
  Are we still pretending laws work? What a charming delusion.
  Prisons will now be audited for compliance with the new law, they'll fail the audit, and we'll all go about our lives. No consequences, no accountability, maybe some symbolic lawsuits or microscopic fines. 
  Spoiler...the people making the laws, enforcing the laws, breaking the laws, investigating the crime, and punishing the crime are all in the same small, untouchable group. 
  But I guess it makes us all feel better that the cameras are definitely going to work from here on out. >
  
  Is it just me or does it seem like there are people in the comments very obviously trying to promote a very specific turn of events? I smell borch, and not the nice Ukrainian kind >
  
  Regardless of your position on Epstein or desire to see anyone involved with him exposed or not (which definitely has taken on partisan associations) the fact is prisons have a "broken camera" problem, just like police officers have a "forgot to turn on the body camera" problem. 
  If they're on the up and up, then there's no excuse to not have working cameras rolling. It's only a certain type of authoritarian that thinks the public shouldn't see what goes on behind the badge and bars. >
  
  Can you say, “too late”? >
  
  What a shitty attitude for something that's now being addressed. >
  
  There seems to have been a literal worldwide conspiracy. So yeah, we missed it. 
  Is it a problem that could be solved now for future worldwide conspiracies?
  Sure. >
  
  Not going to comment, huh? >
  
  Yeah. 
  But they will go out "unexpectedly" at the perfect moment. >
  
  When the guards want to beat an inmate perfect?
  Or when Mr Big has the squealer shanked perfect? >
  
  Why not both >
  
  Predictably, the conspiracy idiots who have scrambled into reddit like bedbugs into a mattress are out in force in these comments. >
  
  How about we fix the fact that none of the pedophiles have be persecuted? >
  
  Is this anything like those police cameras which can be turned off whenever they feel like it?