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

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 said he will name 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.

Barr said he will appoint Thomas Kane as the deputy director of the prisons bureau. Meanwhile, Hurwitz will lead the agency’s Reentry Services Division, according to the attorney general.