Epstein’s injuries were not serious, said the official, who requested his name not be published because he was not authorized to speak on the matter. The Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for information.
Last week, Judge Richard M. Berman of U.S. District Court denied bail for Epstein, rejecting his request to be detained at his Upper East Side mansion as he awaited trial.
His lawyers had proposed allowing him to post a substantial bond and stay in his mansion guarded by 24-hour security, at his expense. Prosecutors opposed that proposal, arguing Epstein was seeking “special treatment” and trying to build his own private jail — a “gilded cage.”
Epstein, 66, was arrested July 6 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after a flight from Paris. He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
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An indictment unsealed July 8 charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy. Prosecutors said that between 2002 and 2005, Epstein and his employees paid dozens of underage girls to engage in sex acts with him at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.
Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison if he is convicted of sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges, and the long sentence, the government argued, gave him a motive to flee.
He has pleaded not guilty.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.