@LeBlack I agree 100%. But in this case the DP may be an empty threat since the governor intends to commute them.
<modsnip: removed generalized comment about DP>. A DP conviction assures the inmate an appeal, segregation from general population, and extra security measures.
TS's elitism and sense of entitlement will not bode well in prison. And the guards will not forget that she attacked an officer while in custody. Its likely that fellow inmates sicken and repulse her - now she is counted among them. If she wants money on her books, she will have to work a job or a string of sick-minded admirers.
No more Kate Spade bags, Lilly Pulitzer dresses, sunglasses, selfies, social media and not even a drop of hair color. LWOP is the highest form of punishment for TS. To really make her
tow the line, throw in an option for parole after 30 years. The Manson crew are routinely denied. JMOO.
Justice for Gannon!
ETA: grammar
I do feel for the people who have to keep her incarcerated and deal with her.
Most jails have entire "wards" (for lack of a better term) for difficult prisoners (suicidal prisoners, prisoners who attack guards, prisoners with a history of violence toward other prisoners, psychotic prisoners) and I vet that's where she is - now. She's now got a few days to pull it together and adjust/adapt.
She's in a very strange situation. My view of her is that she's someone who thrives on attention from others and frantically avoids being alone. She's going to be alone a lot, eventually. Right now, she's probably got someone stopping by her cell every 15 minutes or so. She will want to appease the jail staff in order to have conversation and make requests/demands. I assume she's able to pretend to be many different things to many different people, but the jailers know not to let their guard down. She won't get anywhere in ingratiating herself to staff (staff will change constantly, thwarting any attempts to "befriend" them, they're used to manipulative people).
She does indeed have to get used to looking at herself in the mirror, without her eyebrow pencil and other makeup. That'll be when she gets a chance, it'll be rare until she's permitted into a different setting than the one she's in. Her lawyers are going to have to dig her out of the hole she's in, security-wise, to ever get her anywhere close to being allowed makeup or hair dye (for trial). She gets no privacy for things like the toilet right now, I'm guessing. These are huge things to adjust to, especially for someone who expects apologies and privileges.
Meanwhile, at morning and evening report in the jail, her jailers will discuss her and keep their own counsel about how to deal with any problems that arise.
Can she adapt or will she become flagrantly psychotic? I sure hope she manages to remain mentally healthy (to the degree she's been functioning in the past) and doesn't end up in the psych ward, claiming she's unfit to participate in her own defense.
At any rate, I look forward to her next public appearance. She may well transform herself into a "model prisoner" which, if I were on staff at the jail, would be really worrying as she's clearly capable of pretending to be someone she's not. She also thinks she's invincible and so, I think she'll find a way to regard herself as "Queen of the Jail" if she's permitted. That's the point at which introducing her into the regular population would be the usual antidote, but in her case, there will have to be serious discussion about the advisability of treating her like a regular inmate. I bet everyone in the jail hopes for a speedy trial and to transfer her and her entire circus of problems to the prison system.
h area and easy to have missed on a prior search.
