She is such a manipulator that I can see her easily persuading others in prison and using them in a way to protect her from the rougher inmates. She has no feeling for the pain and suffering she put Gannon through and even her own loved ones. Her attitude in court is like: “get me out of her and get me to the party”, as if she is going anywhere.
She doesn’t deserve to be in a mental ward. I believe she would hurt those who really need help and the professionals trying to help her.
I believe the devil is real. And she is possessed.
I think the mental hospitals are better equipped to keep people like LS from harming others, personally. There's always at least one ward for the dangerous. It is illegal to keep someone in restraints except under medical supervision. She may need to be in restraints. If so, she'll either have to usurp a bed in the prison hospital ward (in the psychiatric division, which I assume they have) or she'll join the others in that situation in the mental hospital. Both would need a psychiatrist to order it, IMO. People can be restrained in Corrections Departments during transport, etc, but they can't just be chained to their bed or to the wall (as used to be done - within the 20th century, in the US).
Medical restraints are of a humane type, and are used both for people who are dangerous to others - and to themselves. I believe LS may end up being both, in prison. The goal is to get medication on board. Most prisons don't have padded rooms, but mental health wards do. The order to put someone into one is made by a doctor in the states where I've worked.
Personally, I feel the State Mental Hospital is just as bad as most State Prisons, and for some people, even worse - because while someone like LS can easily manipulate the relatively mentally healthy prisoners in prison, she will have a harder type manipulating people who, like her, have bizarre ideation and behavior.
In prison, she'll strive to be a gang leader and have more to do. She will be dangerous and manipulative. She'll enjoy it and probably will incur some new charges and get to go back to court (which is also something to do).
Group interactions will be supervised much more closely in the State Mental Hospital and she'll be placed in a group where a psychiatrist decides she's likely to do the least damage. IOW, with other people just like herself - there should be enough of them. I'm not saying it works like magic, but locked wards organized by mental health condition do have a big positive impact on behavior.
I'm not one of those people who think a potential shiv-making LS would be doing society a favor by harming prison inmates. And the guards at the prison are charged to make sure that she doesn't. She will take up SO much time that other criminals will find their lives less scrutinized. Which is why the other criminals will encourage her behavior and she will have a role in a prison group.
Sigh. Oh well not my problem. I just think she would find herself having to change some of her ways in the State Hospital.
IMO. All speculation.
