Paris Hilton Spends First Night in Medical Ward
Paris Hilton spent her first night alone in a room in a locked-down medical ward after suffering in jail what the sheriff called a deteriorating, life-threatening condition that left her speaking incoherently.
Hilton, who wailed as she was taken out of court Friday, was sent to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility's Correctional Treatment Center in the adjacent medical building.
Hilton, 26, was placed in a 120-square-foot room by herself with guards at the door at all times.
“Her cell has a bed, toilet, sink, and a sliver of a window,” says sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.
The four-story center has nearly 200 beds in rooms that look more like hospital rooms than cells, he says.
“The goal at the CTC is to stabilize inmates, so they can be released into the regular (jail) system,” Whitmore says. “She is getting no special treatment. It's a facility focused on medical needs. It treats both medical and psychiatric conditions. … She's going to be there indefinitely.”
Hilton hasn't eaten or slept since arriving, and was visited Saturday morning by her psychiatrist, reports TMZ.com.
A former inmate tells PEOPLE, "You can't sleep in there. All night and day people are screaming and crying."
Hilton was released from Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., early Thursday and reassigned to home detention after serving just three days of her minimum 23-day sentence.
On Friday, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered Hilton back to jail to serve the reminder of her term for violating probation for driving repeatedly with a suspended license.
Sheriff Lee Baca, whose department runs the jails, said she was reassigned for medical reasons. He didn't disclose the exact nature of them, but said that in her previous jail Hilton "was not speaking coherently and that her condition was life-threatening."
He added her "medical condition had been deteriorating."
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