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cing their way to the courthouse, nder, and an appearance before yoner, if only they can make bail. iey — or at least collateral—and,
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ays in which Epstein is unlike his 7 pedophile now. Even a famousone. 9 tend to fare poorly in jail. wadshaw, the sheriff in charge of o the infirmary, where he spends ig transferred seven miles up the location: the Palm Beach County t, as its known, the Stockade. ita serial killer,” Ric Bradshaw says. ~ » are addicts who take part in drug a minals, and drunks. 3
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw: June 2015
ur job,” s i 4 i - 7 “5 Ric Bradshaw, “was to make sure nobody L Sheriff Bradshaw could have stepped off the set of a q Western. Imposingly tall, with his cowboy hat, Kurt Russell : mustache, and slow, southern drawl, he looks exactly like a ‘ old-school law officer—the kind you once would have fo 4 patrolling the streets of Tombstone, Deadwood, or Dodge ets * been a lawman for forty-four years, alisven of iach — a spent as the head of the county’s jails. As a rule, he doesn’t a 4 a media, and today, as he talks about Jeffrey Epstein, ‘ y uncomfortable, fidgety, and ill disposed. a in his wood-paneled office on the first floor of the , Bradshaw remembers Epstein quite well.
ites, petty cri in to be, and, unlike other inmates a g held in solitary), he'll end up with 4 1 wing, which he has to himself. security guard, who sits outside the © 2s allowed any number of visitors: 4 an extraordinary benefits package. ” -adshaw, who also oversees the Stock . er the treatment he is receiving, ‘he had to go to prison at all.” B ad a i : __ We have a thousand sexual predators in the county,” he
hink he belonged there.” Ey. “When he arrived here, he was one of them. He definitel
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