Mainstream Containment of the Epstein Suicide Saga

Obliquely answering the question from yesterday's post, "Who Made the Decision to Leave Epstein Alone in His Cell?" The Times' "Short-Staffed Jail, Epstein Was Left Alone for Hours; Guard Was Substitute" says in the story's last paragraph:

According to Bureau of Prisons' policy, several high-ranking prison officials would have had to have approved Mr. Epstein’s removal from the facility’s suicide prevention program, including the prison’s chief psychologist.

The rest of the story, as one can infer from the headline, seeks to pin the blame for Epstein's suicide on an overworked, short-staffed workforce at the Metropolitan Correctional Center; plainly, misdirection because even after Epstein was mysteriously removed from suicide watch, he should have been bunked with someone. Epstein's cellmate had been transferred recently and not been replaced. Who approved this transfer? Why was no replacement cellmate found?

The mainstream media is fast spinning a containment theory which combines blaming front-line workers at the corrections center with a robust critique of conspiracism (Epstein's suicide could not have been assisted by prison officials conspiring with shadowy individuals because all conspiracy theories are false).

We'll see where the story goes from here. It's encouraging that the Miami Herald is not letting go. We've reached nowhere near the level of media frenzy that followed the Khashoggi murder last fall, but we're in the ballpark.