Please read the links I supply which talk about patients in a hospital, but importantly these are patients under "suicide watch" -- this is what intermittent or continuous obs are for, to prevent suicide and self harm.

People in this thread don't know what "suicide watch means". They seem to think it's 24 hour continuous monitoring.

It may mean someone looks through a door hatch once every 15 minutes.

But also, he may not have been on suicide watch: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...