# CHAPTER 52

Jeffrey Epstein: June 30, 2008

The Palm Beach County Main Detention Center is on the T west side of Lake Worth Lagoon, which separates West Palm Beach from the island of Palm Beach. Epstein's home on El Brillo Way is five miles to the east. Mary's high school is several miles to the west.

It's fitting, somehow, that this jail-which is the jail Epstein ends up in, after turning himself in to the local sheriff-lies in between the two points.

The detention center's inmates, their families, and their law- yers call it the Gun Club, a reference not only to the jail's address, on Gun Club Road, but also to its population of hustlers, bur- glars, drug dealers, rapists, and murderers. There's the occa- sional hooker as well. And, from time to time, Haitian refugees are lodged there.

There are three thousand inmates in all.

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