So long as they cooperate with a federal probe into the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, two prison staffers who falsified their records about watching the convicted sex offender in his cell will face no jail time. The Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan on May 1, 2021, with New York City Hall illuminated in the background. Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell there on Aug. 10, 2020. (Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (CN) — Two Bureau of Prisons employees who covered up their failure to check on Jeffrey Epstein before the high-profile inmate was found dead in his cell in August 2019 will each serve 100 hours of community service under deferred prosecution agreements approved in court Tuesday afternoon.