Update my understanding on this term: suicide watch = watching a person while he committed suicide.

Eli 9906 posts Original UHND Member

Posted 11:57 am on Aug 10, 2019

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Update my understanding on this term: suicide watch = watching a person while he committed suicide.NT Eli 11:57am · 8/10/19
- People on suicide watch commit suicide all the time. Thankfully, as I still have some college to pay Frank L 12:03pm · 8/10/19
  - Why would he not have been on the latter option given that he attempted it a couple weeks ago? MAS 12:29pm · 8/10/19
    - Normally that is for inmates considered to be actively suicidal meaning they are at imminent risk. Frank L 12:46pm · 8/10/19
      - You don't find that fishy at all for a case of this magnitude? You would know better, but MAS 12:48pm · 8/10/19
        
        Normally a high profile suicide is that last thing the prison officials want. Frank L 12:55pm · 8/10/19
        
        I was addressing the potential claim that prison officials wanted him to do it as part of some Frank L 1:15pm · 8/10/19
        
        Responds to MAS.NT Frank L 1:15pm · 8/10/19
        
        There's a logical fallacy in there somewhere. MAS 1:06pm · 8/10/19
  - Are you talking in general or Federal prison? Don't Fed prisons have higher security than state's?NT Eli 12:12pm · 8/10/19
    - I am talking in any prison. Suicide protocol is Correctional Health Care 101. Frank L 12:17pm · 8/10/19
      - Ok. tell us how many suicides happened just 1 month after being arrested and right before trial? Eli 12:35pm · 8/10/19
        
        Plenty. Upcoming trials can be a triggering factor as can recent incarceration.NT Frank L 12:39pm · 8/10/19
        
        OK. To summarize: suicides of high profile, on suicide watch, only 1 month in fed prison are plentyNT Eli 12:57pm · 8/10/19
        
        Well no, but not many inmates fit that profile. But take any of those three categories, and they Frank L 1:02pm · 8/10/19
  - *NT Frank L 12:04pm · 8/10/19

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