Harassed by guards and extorted by inmates, Jeffrey Epstein shared suicidal thoughts at NYC federal jail

NEW YORK – Before he died by suicide, Jeffrey Epstein got an early taste of hell. The multimillionaire sex offender was extorted by inmates and ignored by staff as he became increasingly suicidal, Metropolitan Correctional Center inmates told the Daily News in exclusive interviews. “He was saying he’s going to kill himself because the government is trying to kill him anyway,” one inmate recalled. Shocking details about Epstein’s one-month stay behind bars in lower Manhattan were corroborated by the niece of Efrain “Stone” Reyes, who was the last inmate to share a cell with the multimillionaire...