Sentence examples for mental observation from inspiring English sources

Most of the jails on Rikers maintained a mental observation unit for mentally ill inmates, where they were provided with a higher level of psychiatric care.

Suddenly, staff was reduced, necessary hospital-runs for the most seriously mentally ill were all but eliminated, and our mental observation units were transformed from rich therapeutic environments to depressing dens of neglect.

The deaths of Murdough and Bradley Ballard, another mentally ill inmate whose death five months before Murdough's in a similar mental observation unit was reported by the AP last week, have raised questions about the city's ability to properly care for the mentally ill, who represent a growing proportion of inmates.

On Rikers Island, inmates assigned to mental observation units are typically placed with other inmates so that they are not isolated, Ms. Smith said.

The authorities refused to disclose details of the episode last night, but officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the inmates were sharing a cell in a mental observation unit of the jail.

The city's top jail officials said yesterday that they were reviewing their policy of holding inmates with histories of psychiatric problems in the same cell, after the killing of an inmate in a mental observation unit of Rikers Island.

In the training, 70 physicians practiced mindfulness in exercises such as "body scans," where they made slow and detailed mental observations of their body parts, and through meditations that involved stepping back and paying attention to their thoughts.

There was, however, one case of the neoliberal model's partial survival — Chile — with one funda-mental observation: there were actually two models of Chilean development, and the democratic model was neoliberal in the economy, but not in the state.

Over the next 12 weeks, Kerry remained in the mental-observation unit at Downstate, one of 35,801 inmates who entered the New York State prison system in 1993.

Dozier said he was placed into an isolated cell for "mental health observation," over fears that he intended to harm himself.

Editor's note: In legal filings, the state of Nevada claims prison officials made Dozier aware of the reasons for his period of mental health observation.