Two jail workers who were in charge of protecting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the night he committed suicide in a Manhattan jail have admitted to falsifying documents, but will avoid jail time in a plea bargain with prosecutors.

Tova Noel and Michael Thomas confessed to lying on forms claiming that they had made the necessary rounds checking on inmates the night of Epstein's suicide in August 2019.

The guards were sleeping and browsing the internet, according to prosecutors, when they should have been tracking a maximum security federal inmate who had just been placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

They will not face prison time as a result of their crimes, thanks to a plea bargain reached on Friday.