Attorney General Barr orders removal of acting US prisons director after Epstein's death

Attorney General Barr orders removal of acting prisons director after Epstein's death

US Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on "The Justice Department's Investigation of Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2019.Attorney General William Barr has ordered the removal of a top U.S. prisons official following Jeffrey Epstein's death.

In a statement Monday, the attorney general named Kathleen Hawk Sawyer the new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She will replace Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the agency that oversees inmates in federal prisons.

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