Harvey Weinstein to get special treatment as officials fear an ‘Epstein incident’ – New York Post

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein will earn special treatment in custody — because officials misfortune but another “Epstein incident,” sources educated The Put up.

Quiet reeling from the uproar after pedophile Jeffrey Epstein managed to hold himself in his Manhattan lockup final year, jail officials are taking remarkable steps to discover their most modern excessive-profile inmate.

Weinstein will repeatedly be pleased his comprise cell, will repeatedly be pleased a trusty crew of correction officers with him — and have to silent even be shipped to a facility out of doorways town, sources acknowledged.

“The final thing you resolve on is but another Jeffrey Epstein incident,” a jail offer educated The Put up.

“Harvey is going to be isolated as worthy as you can imagine and have to silent repeatedly be pleased a ingredient with him at some stage within the penal complex. He’s in no device going to be adore other prisoners, in a jam to stroll down the hallway or sit within the canteen on my own.”

The special measures be pleased already started interior Bellevue Successfully being facility, the build Weinstein changed into taken for chest peril after his conviction Monday, Joe Russo, president of the Assistant Deputy Wardens / Deputy Wardens Association, educated The Metropolis.

A jail captain escorts him on every switch, and the crew watching him involves several members of the division’s elite emergency response unit to earn clear he doesn’t are attempting to harm himself, Russo acknowledged.

The total jail hospital unit is shut all the model down to earn rid of any chance Weinstein would possibly bump into other inmates, Russo educated the living.

“There looks to be a Jeffrey Epstein impression right here,” Russo acknowledged.

Russo steered city officials are alive to to take hold of the excessive-profile prisoner out of town, with alternate choices being debated including a jail in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and even as distant as Albany.

If he does preserve at Rikers, he would possibly even earn a entire housing unit simply for him, Russo educated The Metropolis.

“He’s very excessive-profile and you would possibly possibly’t put him with someone else,” Russo educated the living.

Sources educated The Put up that while alternate choices out of doorways town are being notion to be as, it’s miles a lot from easy, with relate officials getting the final utter.

The Correction Division declined to remark on The Metropolis’s Weinstein list.

“He’s in our custody lawful now,” Avery Cohen, a Metropolis Hall spokesperson, educated the living.

Weinstein changed into convicted in Manhattan court Monday of rape and prison sex act — which leaves him going by means of as a lot as 29 years on the attend of bars. Wherever he ends up, Weinstein have to silent be ready — having employed a “penal complex advertising and marketing and marketing consultant’’ to abet prepare him for his time on the attend of bars.

Epstein, 66, changed into being held within the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan, wanting ahead to sex-trafficking charges, when he changed into stumbled on dead the morning of Aug. 10.

Corrections officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas had been charged with falsifying paperwork claiming they’d checked on Epstein and other inmates every half of-hour the evening he died. Both guards pleaded no longer guilty.