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If you're IN jail ON 24 hour suicide watch, shouldn't there be a camera on you??

Posted - August 10, 2019

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  • 19942
    Not having any experience with being i jail, I can't answer that, but one would think so.  As far as I recall, the guard is supposed to check on someone every 15 minutes.  Clearly, it doesn't take that long to hang yourself.
      August 10, 2019 8:29 AM MDT
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  • 44177
    That would be intrusive and violate the right of the prisoner to kill himself. I don't believe in suicide watches. Let them do the deed and save tax dollars.
      August 10, 2019 8:52 AM MDT
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  • 32536
    Ideally there would be human eyes on you not just a camera.  I am betting cameras would/have been challenged by ACLU.

    Some jail/prisons are pairing prisoners up stable prisoners with the suicidal ones to help prevent suicides. Supposedly helps. (This is in AU)

    But someone on suicide watch should certainly be in a room that is not able to be used to tie a sheet to something and it work. This post was edited by my2cents at August 10, 2019 11:26 PM MDT
      August 10, 2019 8:55 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Especially after you were rushed to the emergency room a few days prior?  

    You would think.  
      August 10, 2019 9:16 AM MDT
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  • 10037
    Not if you possess incredibly incriminating knowledge about your former good friend who happens to be POTUS...


      August 10, 2019 9:33 AM MDT
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  • 1817
    if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen 
      August 10, 2019 9:34 AM MDT
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  • It doesn't take long to hang yourself and if you're not being watched 24/7 (which you aren't) then you have an opportunity to commit suicide. 
      August 10, 2019 9:36 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I THINK we could afford a 24/7 on THIS GUY.    COME ON.  
      August 10, 2019 9:47 AM MDT
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  • 24 hour "watch" is called "watch" because it is supposed to involve "watching".  The person who is under watchful care should have EYES and CAMERAS on him or her at ALL times.  Privacy be damned! We give up our privacy or have it taken from us every single day of our lives in far less important circumstances.  So I say there is no excuse EVER for something like this to happen.
      August 10, 2019 10:14 AM MDT
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    7271
    He just saved the government millions it would have taken to bring all those "high profile" people in during the investigation and trial. He did the world a favor by not being a threat anylonger to young girls. 

    I'm suprised he was only in his 60's he looks much older. 


    This post was edited by . at August 10, 2019 11:27 PM MDT
      August 10, 2019 2:11 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Those high profile, powerful people should be brought to justice. Particularly those whose brave victims have stepped forward to bring allegations. 

    Yes, I'm talking about Donald J(ackass) Trump. 
      August 10, 2019 10:54 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    If you're talking about Jeffrey Epstein, why are people so put out that he chose to off himself instead of facing a trial and the rest of his life in prison? I'm not sure I blame him given the circumstances. If nothing else, he saved the taxpayers the expense of the trial and his eventual imprisonment.
      August 10, 2019 11:32 PM MDT
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