on duty was filling in as a guard and was not part of the regular detention workforce. it s unknown what the person s regular position is but a measure put in place to deal with budget constraits called augmentition a all too common at the bureau of prison 141 facilities where workers hired as teachers and dukes are trained to fill in at posted normally manned by detention officers. any time we cut budgets it s detentions there are 2.2 million people incarcerated in the country. 7.3 million under the supervision of the correction the agencies but still for this to happen in the special housing unit, a manna had been on suicide watch or a week it was unconscionable. and cnn has learned that epstein was taken off suicide watch just days after his first suicide attempt in late july. he was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes but a person briefed on the investigation tells us there were no checks on epstein in the hours before he was discovered early saturday