U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday announced that he was replacing the acting head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons amid the growing fallout over the death of wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month while in federal custody.

Barr said in a statement that Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, a psychologist who led the BOP from 1992 to 2003, would replace Hugh J. Hurwitz as the bureau’s director, and named Thomas R. Kane to serve as her deputy.