Rep. Nydia Velázquez on Wednesday joined the growing number of officials calling for a soup-to-nuts investigation into the apparent suicide of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Velázquez said she wrote a letter to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the head of the FBI demanding answers not only about Epstein’s death but about what she called other rampant abuses of detainees at the lockup.

“I write to voice concerns about the continued alleged culture of mismanagement and inadequate leadership at this facility,” she said.

The circumstances surrounding the recent suicide of Epstein while he was in federal custody should shine a light on other problems that have been previously documented at the jail, said Velázquez, whose district includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, including the MCC.

President Trump has called for a thorough probe into Epstein’s death, and Attorney General William Barr has directed the Department of Justice to find out what happened.

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell about 6:30 a.m. Saturday — after guards who were supposed to be watching him fell asleep.

Authorities have called his death an apparent suicide.

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