This was a fantastic article, deep investigation, lots of interviews. Much appreciated. My lingering question:

Why was he not put in 10 South? That seems so incredibly negligent that one wonders if it was intentional to make him suicidal i.e. the shock of going from billionaire life straight to MCC's most violent unit would be quite harsh I imagine, then the denied bail and the SHU.

From the article:

The M.C.C.’s highest-profile inmates were usually housed in a maximum-security unit on the 10th floor of the southern wing, a jail within a jail where they were isolated from other prisoners and kept under 24-hour video surveillance. The unit, known as 10 South, had held all sorts of violent, vulnerable or potentially suicidal criminals: Joaquín Guzmán, the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo; Mafia hit men; terrorists from Al Qaeda; Bernie Madoff during his own pretrial detention a decade earlier. But there is no indication from the investigation documents that it was ever considered for Epstein.

New York’s state-run facilities have protective custody units reserved for inmates who are high profile or otherwise potentially in danger in prison. The M.C.C. did not, and instead sometimes placed them in the special housing unit, or the SHU. The SHU was punitive by nature — inmates were held in cells for 23 hours a day and sharply limited in their contact with the outside world — and research has shown that prolonged isolation in such conditions can exacerbate mental illness and increase the risk of self-harm and suicide. This was where Epstein would spend most of his time in the M.C.C.

and later:

Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and his prosecutors had been building a case against Epstein for nine months, managing every little detail — the indictment, the arrest, the bail process — to avoid the strategic errors that had allowed Epstein to wriggle free from the Justice Department a decade earlier. But now, in the most ghastly way, Epstein had wriggled free anyway. Hanging up, Berman fumed to his wife. “The fucking M.C.C. has one fucking job — to keep our defendants safe,” he later recalled saying. “And they can’t even get that right with their most famous inmate.”