Lindsay Lohan's options for a place to enter rehab seem to have just gotten much smaller. Lohan's attorney, Mark Heller, proposed at her court hearing last week that he could get his client in to a private 'locked down' rehab facility, one where she would be held and unable to leave, in New York City. Prosecutors, believing such a facility existed, struck a deal after the actress pleaded no contest to reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers who were investigating a vehicle accident involving the actress in June of 2012. (At the time, Lohan was on probation for 2011 shoplifting conviction.) The deal was to let the troubled Hollywood starlet serve her 90-day jail sentence while receiving treatment in rehab, with the pretense that Lohan would not be allowed to check herself out.
"This is a residential treatment, no day passes. You can't leave," noted Superior Court Judge James Dabney.
TMZ reports, however, no such private treatment facility (one which would allow a patient to be held against their will) actually exists in the US. The state of New York's one exception is a center connected with the prison system, but patients must have a felony record to be admitted, a requirement that Lohan does not meet.
Addiction specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky, reaffirmed such reports, "There is no rehab that will hold you against your will, unless the feel the person is a suicide risk, and in that case they can hold the individual for 72 hours."
In addition to mandatory rehab, the plea deal requires Lohan to perform 30 days of community labor and 18 months of psychological therapy. As parting words at the end of the hearing, Judge Dabney gave Lohan a piece of advice, "A suggestion, don't drive. You're in New York. You don't need to drive." Prosecutors are now said to be reevaluating the deal to determine how to they wish to proceed.
