Lindsay Lohan Back Behind Bars
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, back to the clinker. Lindsay Lohan headed back to prison. That sure didn`t take long. She failed a drug test, and now she`s behind bars for 30 days. So will she actually do her time this time? And fast breaking twists and turns in the desperate search for little Haleigh Cummings. Her father, Ronald, has just been sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking. Now Misty is isolated and alone. Tonight she awaits her fate. Are cops putting the squeeze on Ronald`s ex-wife? And sick and twisted sext messages. A district attorney accused of settlement sexting an abuse victim during her boyfriend`s trial. Tonight, did he abuse his position of power? We`ll talk to a woman who says she was a victim. Plus, horrifying family violence rips through Seattle. Cops say a woman killed three of her family members and then killed herself. Tonight, one daughter survived. Her only words? "Mom has gone crazy." What happened inside this house? ISSUES starts now.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, bombshell developments. From party animal to jailbird, Lindsay Lohan is back behind bars for the next 30 days. We think. Lohan showed no emotion as she was literally handcuffed and led out of court. It was a far cry from her last tearful court performance. Remember this?</s>LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: I know that I was ordered to go once a week, and it wasn`t -- you know, I wasn`t missing the class. It`s just -- I wouldn`t do anything like that. I was working mostly in Morocco, and I was working with children. It wasn`t a vacation. It wasn`t some sort of a joke. And I respect you. I`ve been taking you seriously.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: But after that courtroom speech begging for mercy and after getting out of jail way early, Lindsay Lohan proceeded to flunk not one but two drug tests, coming up positive for cocaine and, says TMZ, amphetamines. So her probation has now been revoked. So we`re all wondering: will this wild-child starlet get off easy yet again? One person seems to think so. Lindsay Lohan. She showed up to her hearing this morning with a bail bondsman in tow. LiLo clearly hoping to post bail right then and there and saunter off without even setting foot in jail. But the judge said no way, Jose. He set a hearing for October 22 and ruled Lindsay will stay in jail until that day. She cannot post bail. Well, at least LiLo will be the most stylish inmate in the big house. As she was handcuffed and carted out, she was wearing a pair of $1,200 sky- high designer high heels. Lindsay`s been gallivanting around Hollywood this week part, partying at nightclubs. She expected to be able to just open her wallet and leave the hearing this morning a free woman. Well, not this time, Linster. But is the party really over for this troubled starlet? Or will she and her high-powered team of attorneys somehow, some way finagle a way to get her out of jail again? Straight out to my fantastic panel. But first to CNN correspondent Kareen Wynter. Kareen, you were right outside the courtroom this morning. What was the mob scene like, and what was Lindsay like as she arrived to face the music?</s>KAREEN WYNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jane, as for the scene, it was unlike anything I had ever experienced. I`ve covered quite a few of these hearings now for Lohan. Standing room only was not even the word, the correct way to describe it. There was so much press, spectators, also law enforcement officials. And they really, really tried to create an entryway for the pop star who, by the way, you know, was able to walk in. And you saw Lindsay Lohan. She was wearing her shades, her hair pulled back. Didn`t seem, you know, the slight bit concerned. She was whisked into the courthouse. But it`s what unfolded upstairs -- and by the way, there were no cameras allowed, Jane -- but she just seemed as if she really doesn`t know what`s going on around her. One of our colleagues was in that courtroom said that Lohan just stood there matter-of-factly, as the four deputies surrounded her, put her in handcuffs and led her away. This is becoming routine for her. So it`s really, really interesting to see if this is even having an impact on her. Is she too far gone? The good thing is, this judge is saying enough is enough. He`s laid down the law. There is no leniency that he displayed at all here by not giving her an option of bail. So she will be behind bars for 30 days. Is that enough time? We`ll all have to wait and see. But at least she`ll sit there until that next probation hearing October 22...</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: I`ve got to say...</s>WYNTER: ... Jane.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: I have one thing to say to the judge who sentenced Lindsay back in jail: way to go, dude! And I don`t say that to be mean. I say, this is what`s needed to get this young woman`s attention. Howard Samuels, you`re an expert in recovery, the founder and CEO of the Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles. This young lady has failed at rehab four times. I honestly believe this is what`s needed to get her attention, to save her life.</s>HOWARD SAMUELS, FOUNDER/CEO, HILLS TREATMENT CENTER: You know, Jane, without question. I mean, we`re dealing with a seriously hard-core addiction here. And for somebody that, you know, fails two drug tests when the whole world is watching, for her to rationalize that is -- she`s on another planet. I mean, the denial is so heavy. So for her to go to jail, without question, has to break through that denial that she has. So the 30 days, great. But I`m more interested in what`s going to happen afterwards. She has to -- she has to go to jail -- I mean, to rehab for a year without any stops in between, from jail to rehab for a year. That`s what`s got to happen here.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, the judge never seems to sentence any of these starlets to rehab for a year. I know you were telling me the other day that, when you were faced with going to jail, the judge in your case, back in the `70s, when you got clean and sober, said, "Hey, dude, either go to jail for four years, or you go to rehab for a year," because a year is what it takes. It`s -- 22 days, which is just what she did, is not going to solve her problem.</s>SAMUELS: Oh, 23 days is a joke. I mean, this is where the courts, the lawyers -- I mean, they don`t really get the disease of alcohol and addiction. It is a hardcore thing to change. I mean, I`ve spent three years of my life locked up you in treatment centers, and I needed that. So for Lindsay, or anybody like her, it`s a minimum of a year. That`s what it it`s going to take here.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Mary, Pennsylvania, your question or thought, ma`am.</s>CALLER: I was just wondering, what about the doctors that are prescribing the drugs for Lindsay? Aren`t they part of the blame, too?</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I think you raise an excellent question. Robin Sax, when she violated probation, she was sentenced to 90 and 90, 90 days in jail, 90 days in an inpatient rehab facility. She did 14 days in jail. She did 22 days at a hospital in Los Angeles. And the doctors apparently decided, "OK, now you can leave early. You don`t have to stay because you`re OK." Now, you know what they need to say today? "I was wr-wr-wr-wr-wr-wr- wrong," OK? It`s very hard for doctors to say that, wr-wr-wr-wrong. Robin Sax?</s>ROBIN SAX, FORMER PROSECUTOR: It`s even harder for lawyers and judges to say they`re wrong, too. But you know, here we`ve got a situation where we`ve got this combination of dealing with an addiction and then also the part where the criminal justice system is involved. And for some reason there`s one group of people that thinks that we should treat the addiction, and then there`s another group that thinks that she should be punished. Yet, when the people are there advocating for dealing with the addiction, they`re never really dealing with the addiction, like your guest just said, that this is not a 22-day or even a 90-day sentence. And then the ability and the power just to release her willy-nilly is just wrong and never going to treat the issue. In this case, what I see is a case that we just have to let the criminal justice system punish. We have tried to rehabilitate. We have tried to deter. We have tried to educate and deal with the addiction issues. The fact of the matter is, until Lindsay Lohan is ready to deal with her program, no rehab is going to help her, and only punishment will.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Lindsay`s dad Michael cried out, "Oh, God" as bailiffs handcuffed his daughter. And he spoke out outside court, insisting Lindsay is an addict and needs help, not jail. Check this out.</s>MICHAEL LOHAN, FATHER OF LINDSAY: She hasn`t gotten help for her addiction yet. She doesn`t make the right decisions. She doesn`t know better. When somebody is there and she -- first of all, leaving California to go to New York for Fashion Week is the biggest mistake in the world. Let`s be serious. I mean, it`s all drugs there anyway. And then all of these old parts (ph) are there. She doesn`t stay with her mother when she`s home. She stays in a hotel unsupervised. Is that a good place for her? You know? It`s all people, places and things. And she`s around the wrong people, hanging out in the wrong places, and all the things in her life are misguided.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Kim Serafin, senior editor, "InTouch Weekly," when she got out of this inpatient treatment facility and then appeared on the VMA Awards, making fun of her own drug and alcohol problems, I said on this show ISSUES, this is a serious problem. This woman is headed for a slip, because she`s already mocking her disease. That`s not something that one should do in early sobriety. And well, I hate to say it, but I was right - - Kim.</s>KIM SERAFIN, SENIOR EDITOR, "INTOUCH WEEKLY": Yes. You know, a lot of people were saying, is it too soon for her to be doing this, poking fun of herself on the MTV Awards? Is it too soon for her to rush right back into work? Of course, while she was in rehab, while she was in jail, even, everyone was talking about the next film that she was doing. Can she revive her career? That was the question that so many people were asking. It seemed she was so gung-ho about this new movie that she was doing, questions about where she was shooting it. And maybe that really was all too soon, especially since you just mentioned she served a fraction of the time that she was initially sentenced for in rehab. She was supposed to serve 90 days. She was let out after 23 days. So clearly, it wasn`t enough, and clearly, maybe there were steps that she was taking that she should have waited. She should have held back, taken some time to get herself straight before she focused on work again.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: What were those doctors thinking to let her out after 22, 23 days saying, "Oh, it`s not as bad as we thought it was?" Well, you were wrong, doctors! Everybody, stay right where you are. Coming up, a district attorney accused of sending raunchy messages to an abuse victim? We are going to talk to a woman who says she is victim No. 3 and ask the question, why does this guy still have a job? But first, La Lohan locked up. How much time will this very troubled young woman get in jail this time around?</s>M. LOHAN: The thing is, when you go and you`re on prescription medication, you go out and you do have a drink or you do do a line of cocaine, or whatever, you don`t know if that could be your last. I think Dr. Drew`s right with regard to having a bottom. But my concern for so long, until that SCRAM bracelet on her ankle, was today going to be her last day? And that`s why I was reaching out.