Nakena wrote:Scomagia wrote:No, otherwise there'd be no end to suicide watch for a lot of prisoners. The shrink probably met with him a few times, maybe prescribed medication, and was satisfied that Epstein was no longer actively suicidal. That would not be unusual.
That would the usual in another situation, here however we have an very unusual and endangered patient whose survivial is in grave danger. Normal or usual metrics cannot be applied here.
That's not the way this works. Even witnesses and informants don't get active, 24 hour, 1 on 1 protection. Besides, it is likely a deprivation of someone's rights to keep them on suicide watch indefinitely and against the evaluation of a mental health professional. Generally speaking prison officials try to keep the abuses to a minimum for pretrial, high profile inmates. Bad press and all.