Background Jeffrey Epstein was formally charged with Sex Trafficking Conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 371 and Sex Trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.0 Section 1591(a), (b) (2), 2 on July 2, 2019. Specifically, he was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing minor females over the course of several years. Charging documents allege that Epstein enticed and recruited minor females to engage in sexual activity. The minor females were reportedly compensated with case following the sexual encounters and some were encouraged to find other minor females to accompany them to Epstein's residences in New York and Florida. Epstein's incarceration with the Federal Bureau of Prisons The FBI arrested Jeffrey Epstein on the sex trafficking charges on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey upon his return from Paris, France. He was transported to the Federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) located at 150 Park Row, New York, New York, and keyed into SENTRY at 9:24 p.m. that evening. The MCC, which housed approximately 750 inmates at any given time, assigned inmates to various housing units within the MCC. Epstein was initially assigned to a bed in the MCCs general population, but on July 7, 2019, at approximately 7:20 p.m., he was moved to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) pending reclassification due to the significant increase in media coverage and awareness of his notoriety among the inmate population. The SHU is a housing unit within the MCC where inmates are securely separated from the general population to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of staff and other inmates. The SHU is located on the ninth floor of the MCC, and access to that floor is controlled by a locked door that can be opened remotely only by an MCC staff member in the MCC's centralized control center, which is located on the first floor of the MCC. Access into the SHU is also controlled by a second l