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Why Wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein on Suicide Watch When He Died?
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.
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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
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