Just for the record.
Corrections (not law enforcement) standards of practice include.
Suicidal prisoner, prisoners with suicidal ideations, or at risk prisoners (specifically death penalty prisoners) should be :
1) Independently housed
2) Suicide watch (inclusive of housed in paper robes, naked, cleared cells, etc)
3) Suicide proofing facilities
4) Shackled or manacled during all interrogations, movement (internal or external)
Oh and a bunch more. But then again it isn't like there are formal curriculums to teach people about this or anything.
ETA: Some medical practitioners attempt to treat the suicidal inmate as a solitary individual within the populace. That unfortunately does not take into account jail populace tendencies and social-inequities that result in already vulnerable individuals (after all they are suicidal) to me victimized by the general populace. If you read the literature medical doctors with limited exposure to inmates within the general population have a tendency to ignore the populace of the correctional facility and the social pressures of that population. In other words. The jail population will pounce on the different, the ill, the sick, the lame, and most definitely the crazy.
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