A Justice Department team has been reviewing conditions at coronavirus-plagued federal prisons where 16 inmates have died in the past month.
There was no immediate timeline for when the review would be completed, and the official said that Barr remained confident in the current leadership at the agency long troubled staffing shortages.
Carvajal, a career prison official who had been serving as an assistant director, was elevated to the top spot to succeed Kathleen Hawk Sawyer. Barr had appointed Hawk Sawyer to serve as director in the days after Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, prompting a bureau-wide shakeup of the nation's largest prison system.
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