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ting their way to the courthouse, nder, and an appearance before Doner, if only they can make bail. ney or at least collateral-and, is often what lands people in jail

posted bail for every single inmate

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ays in which Epstein is unlike his pedophile now. Even a famous one.

tend to fare poorly in jail. radshaw, the sheriff in charge of o the infirmary, where he spends ig transferred seven miles up the location: the Palm Beach County r, as it's known, the Stockade.

it a serial killer," Ric Bradshaw says. e are addicts who take part in drug ites, petty criminals, and drunks. in to be, and, unlike other inmates g held in solitary), he'll end up with 1 wing, which he has to himself. security guard, who sits outside the e's allowed any number of visitors. an extraordinary benefits package. radshaw, who also oversees the Stock- 'er the treatment he is receiving. he had to go to prison at all," Brad-

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Sheriff Ric Bradshaw: June 2015

O killed him." ur job," says Ric Bradshaw, "was to make sure nobody Sheriff Bradshaw could have stepped off the set of a Western. Imposingly tall, with his cowboy hat, Kurt Russell mustache, and slow, southern drawl, he looks exactly like an old-school law officer-the kind you once would have found patrolling the streets of Tombstone, Deadwood, or Dodge City. been He's been a lawman for forty-four years, eleven of which have spent as the head of the county's jails. As a rule, he doesn't he's clearly uncomfortable, fidgety, and ill disposed. talk to the media, and today, as he talks about Jeffrey Epstein,

Gun Club, Bradshaw remembers Epstein quite well. But here in his wood-paneled office on the first floor of the

says. "When he arrived here, he was one of them. He definitely "We have a thousand sexual predators in the county," he

hink he belonged there."

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