The head of the federal Bureau of Prisons was yanked from his post Monday — a little over a week after the controversial death of wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail.

Acting BOP Director Hugh Hurwitz, who had been at the helm of the country’s prison system since last year, has been reassigned, US Attorney General William Barr said.

Barr did not say where Hurwitz will now be working but said the agency’s former director, Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, will succeed him at the helm. Sawyer served as the BOP’s director from 1992 to 2003, the AG said in a statement.

Barr has already launched a federal probe into Epstein’s death, which was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office last week.

In the days after Epstein’s death, it surfaced that the accused sex-trafficker had been moved off suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and not checked on every 30 minutes as required. One of the guards supposedly keeping watch over him wasn’t even a full-fledged corrections officer, sources have said.