The world of Nick Reiner is confined to a 7-by-10-foot cell inside the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles.
Inside Nick Reiner’s life in jail
Since entering the jail system on December 15th, following his arrest on suspicion of m*rdering his parents, director Rob Reiner and photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, Nick has been housed inside Tower 2’s high-observation mental health unit.
There, Nick remains alone in his cell at all times and is served three meals a day in confinement, four police sources told PEOPLE.
“The inmates [where he is located] have significant mental health illnesses and need to be kept alone and away from any other people or inmates,” says a Los Angeles County sheriff source. Doctors and mental health professional determined Nick has a “mental disability” one police source previously told PEOPLE.
At the facility, breakfast is served around 6 a.m., lunch around 10:30 or 11 a.m. and dinner around 5 p.m. Breakfast and lunch are usually cold foods. In contrast, dinner is typically hot, according to a law enforcement insider of the outlet.
“He has about an hour to eat and then a deputy sheriff collects his tray inside his cell,” adds the sheriff source, who claims the facility has a different and “better” menu than what’s served at other L.A. jails.
Nick had a break in his typical routine on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the date of his highly-anticipated arraignment.
Around 6 a.m., a few hours after getting clearance from the jail clerk to attend the hearing, Nick showered and changed into a prison-issued brown jumpsuit, according to the sheriff source of the outlet.
A couple of hours later, he was transported by authorities in a marked vehicle to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles.
Following the dramatic courtroom appearance, at which he entered no plea and his high-profile defense attorney stepped away from the case, Nick returned Twin Towers.
At 5 p.m. that night, he ate dinner alone, as he has daily since his arrest, beneath fluorescent lights, dressed in bright yellow short-sleeved jail shirt and dark blue pants, according to the sheriff source.
Nick is no longer on suicide watch, and the jail has removed the suicide-prevention smock he was required to wear at all times. He currently remains under close observation.
“He is still being monitored every 15 minutes and is being recorded when he exits his cell to go to court or for evaluations or other necessary requirements,” says the sheriff source. “He is also evaluated each week by our medical professionals like psychiatrists on staff but he did not see one after court.”
