Work-release for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein an insult to victims, public

Work-release for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein an insult to victims, public Page I of 2 Pal mBeach Daily! \H1pyy I 4.vcscirp Work-release for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein an insult to victims, public Saturday, December 13, 2008 Ct PRINTTHIS Powered by Oajd(ablity The disclosure that convicted sex offender and Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein gets to leave his cell at the Palm Beach County Stockade six days a week for 12 hours a day as part of a work- release program is appalling and distasteful. The seriousness of the charges against Mr. Epstein, who pleaded guilty June 30 to two felony counts - soliciting prostitution and procuring a person younger than 18 for prostitution - as well as the seemingly facile time he is serving at the stockade, make his work release an insult to his victims and the public. Mr. Epstein, 55, began the work-release program on Oct. 10, just over three months into his supposed 18-month sentence. Yet, astonishingly, neither his victims, the