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"Suicide watch" doesn't have a fixed meaning. People on 15 minute observations can and do die by suicide. If someone is at risk and you think obs are going to

by DanBC 7y ago

"Suicide watch" doesn't have a fixed meaning. People on 15 minute observations can and do die by suicide. If someone is at risk and you think obs are going to help (they don't always help, they can make things worse) you need to have them under full time obs. But even then how close does that need to be? Two staff members within arms reach 24 hours of the day, including during eat, bathing, defecating?

rolph 7y ago
hanging only takes ~6 minutes until point of no return. if the neck is dislocated even immediate intervention cant accomplish much for the decedent.
- FireBeyond 7y ago
  It's also very difficult to, from "ground level" dislocate the neck thus. It was the "long drop and the sharp stop" in the gallows which caused neck dislocation (or in poor planning, even decapitation).
  - rolph 7y ago
    yes its most likely a gradual loading of the ligature rather than an abrupt drop. one would have to be fairly determined toward fate, and a bit athletic to incur cervical dislocation.
alkonaut 7y ago
I thinking he would have been under some kind of regular watch and in a room with no sharp corners, no cables, no belt, ... It’s going to be really interesting to hear how it happened.
- DanBC 7y ago
  People rip their clothing to form ligatures.
chewz 7y ago
> Inmates on suicide watch are generally placed in a special observation cell, surrounded with windows, with a bolted down bed and no bedclothes. A correction officer — or sometimes a fellow inmate trained to be a “suicide companion” — is typically assigned to sit in an adjacent office and monitor the inmate constantly. > Robert Gangi, an expert on prisons and the former executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, said guards also generally take shoelaces and belts away from people on suicide watch. > “If he’s on suicide watch, it's virtually impossible to kill yourself,” Mr. Gangi said. > To take an inmate off suicide watch a “post-watch report” needs to be completed, which includes an analysis of how the inmate’s circumstances have changed and why that merits removal from the watch. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-watch.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...

by DanBC 7y ago

rolph 7y ago

hanging only takes ~6 minutes until point of no return. if the neck is dislocated even immediate intervention cant accomplish much for the decedent.

FireBeyond 7y ago
It's also very difficult to, from "ground level" dislocate the neck thus. It was the "long drop and the sharp stop" in the gallows which caused neck dislocation (or in poor planning, even decapitation).
- rolph 7y ago
  yes its most likely a gradual loading of the ligature rather than an abrupt drop. one would have to be fairly determined toward fate, and a bit athletic to incur cervical dislocation.

alkonaut 7y ago

I thinking he would have been under some kind of regular watch and in a room with no sharp corners, no cables, no belt, ... It’s going to be really interesting to hear how it happened.

DanBC 7y ago
People rip their clothing to form ligatures.

chewz 7y ago

> Inmates on suicide watch are generally placed in a special observation cell, surrounded with windows, with a bolted down bed and no bedclothes. A correction officer — or sometimes a fellow inmate trained to be a “suicide companion” — is typically assigned to sit in an adjacent office and monitor the inmate constantly. > Robert Gangi, an expert on prisons and the former executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, said guards also generally take shoelaces and belts away from people on suicide watch. > “If he’s on suicide watch, it's virtually impossible to kill yourself,” Mr. Gangi said. > To take an inmate off suicide watch a “post-watch report” needs to be completed, which includes an analysis of how the inmate’s circumstances have changed and why that merits removal from the watch. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-watch.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...