[Wolferz]

Here where I live the incarcerated DO pay for their room and board, either while incarcerated or after release. Do the crime, serve the time but no free ride. That's the way it should be.

Also in this neighborhood suicidal thoughts are treated very seriously. If the individual doesn't voluntarily seek help they can be forced into treatment by filling out a 302 form at any local hospital. Once the county official signs off on the form it is taken to the nearest LEO to be enacted.
The wife and I were forced to do this with her son. I'm still not sure if he was actually contemplating ending himself or was just terrorizing his mother with claims to do so for whatever twisted reason.
He spent a whole day mimicking slashing his wrists with a guitar pick to the point of creating closed cuts across both wrists. He wasn't happy when the officer arrived and he discovered that he wasn't going to get what he really wanted, which is still a mystery to us. Instead he got ten days in a psyche ward for his trouble and nearly wore out his welcome in our home. It was the threat of putting him in the street to fend for himself after the hospital stay that finally snapped him out of what was eating at him.

This young lady succeeded where she shouldn't have and somebody definitely dropped the ball. As for the circumstances that lead to this tragedy I won't comment on because you can't confirm or deny actions you didn't witness.
Hindsight solves nothing but can be a preventative endeavor in the future.