Shrink Rap thinks she would have been better off in home detention:
She was being kept in a single cell because of her celebrity status, but she was seen crying and not eating there. Most completed correctional suicides are done by inmates in single cell status. The facility would have had a reasonable concern about maintaining her safety under these circumstances. One option would have been to put her on suicide watch involuntarily, but again this involves a fair amount of embarrassment and discomfort to the person you’re doing this to.
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Paris Hilton isn’t going to commit suicide. Even though this is probably the first time in her life that she has ever been held accountable for anything. But people of high socioeconomic status go to jail all the time (DUI being an equal-opportunity offense) and if a suburban professional can go to jail and stick it out, why shouldn’t Paris Hilton? A straight-laced engineer or computer tech who gets caught after pounding back a few too many has more to lose, reputation-wise, than Paris Hilton, but he’ll go without complaint.
That being said, the jails are full of inmates who might be suicide risks. I wonder how pulled-together Paris would suddenly become if the sheriff said to her (and Mumsy and Dadsie): Look, if you’re a real suicide risk the only place we can put you is in the high-security mental facility, which is actually in the prison system. You are going to serve your jail sentence, just like anyone else, but if you persist in this tantrum, we have to put you where you belong.
I’ll bet she’d straighten up.
The latest: she found Jeebus and he’s going to get her through. If you’ve followed Hilton’s shenanigans on the net one wonders what took her so long. I’ve seen more of her private parts posted on the web than I care to think about. (Although I missed the video of her having sexual intercourse with one of many men she’s been linked to). She is paid up to $1 mil to show up at parties. Perhaps she really is in pain, pain at the thought that her price tag may be cheaper upon release, from haute couture to clearance rack at Target.
Two problems. The first is the state of the LA County Jail system. Those of us that live in this celebritard spawning ground have seen prior cases of people released early. This has included cases of people that have killed, robbed and raped when they should have been in jail. The other issue is the undue and pervasive nature of the “mental health” clowns in regards to the criminal court system. It would appear as if anybody with the money can hire a mental health prostitute to cook up some “mental health issue” in order to absolve them of their responsibility. If ho bag Hilton is “depressed” then too bad for her. Such nonsense should never serve as an excuse for some shrink to be able to concoct a get out of jail free card.
~Crminallopath~
I can feel the “love” in the above posted comments.
It’s hard to believe you’re all health care professionals!
KoKo, give it a rest. Sanctimony goes well with nothing.
The smartest thing to have done to Ms. Hilton would be to have put her at house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet, require her to meet every other day with her parole officer (at her expense), allow her visits with one person only at a time from an approved visitor list, (no parties at home) require her to consent to random drug and alcohol screening, require her to attend supervised alcohol abuse counseling (again, at her expense) and do about 500 hours of community service. Housing her at county expense is stupid and wasteful. This person likes celebrity and attention and most of all her freedom to be at large. You can’t do much about the first two, she is who she is, but keeping her at home where she can’t do as she pleases would be the ideal punishment in paradise.
OK, for the record the point of my Paris Hilton post was to walk through the sheriff’s point of view in this situation. Separate from what you might think about Paris Hilton, I think the sheriff was the one who really got the bad end of the publicity circuit. He had legitimate concerns about the situation. This is the part of my post you didn’t quote:
“Ideally, the proper intervention would be to get her referred for crisis intervention services as quickly as possible. Educate her about what to expect and how the incarceration will run. Get her referred for psychiatric evaluation and pharmacology, if indicated. If all else fails, use suicide observation to preserve safety.”
All of this could take place within the facility.
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