I think you have it right. It has got to be an enormous extra taxpayer cost and effort to keep this brat locked up, to keep guards from sneaking in their digital cameras to get a money shot, to keep the news rats away from the front gates, to make sure the brat doesn’t do something stupid like cutting her wrists, etc. Sounds to me like the sheriff is one of the few sensible people involved in this mess, with the balls to do something sensible.
Oh yeah— it sure takes “balls” to capitulate to the tantrums of a spoiled brat. I guess that makes Hilton’s parents the “ballsiest” parents in the world. There are certainly “regular” inmates on suicide watch. If they can take those precautions with other prisoners, they can take them with her. If he didn’t like the trouble, he should have shipped off to the mental facility in the first place, not her home.