konnichiwa said:
The murderer would be caught but camera's were apparantly malfunctioning and this on a like a 'high' target. He probably had information about some people (and honestly don't care if it were republicans/democrats) his suicide is very convenient. |
The Federal Bureau of Prisons isn't renowned for being competent at its job, and in fact the federal prison system has shown itself to be shoddily run time and again. He was a high target, but he was also off of suicide watch. People can't simply be kept indefinitely on suicide watch, that's against the law and the Constitution. You have to be evaluated by a psychiatrist on a regular basis to see if continuing suicide watch is justified. If you give the psychiatrist all the right answers and you've done nothing else that suggests further suicidal ideation, they have to take you off. The prisoner could come back and file a lawsuit claiming their civil rights were violated.
That said, most prison staff generally don't give two shits if a prisoner kills himself. The only thing they're worried about is being investigated. So for the most part, they don't really do more than the bare minimum of checking required at the time. If that.