Why did it take Paris Hilton to get Utah legislators to list

Why did it take Paris Hilton to get Utah legislators to listen to complaints about youth programs?
Jay Evensen
© Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Paris Hilton looks at Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, as they testify about SB127 before the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. The bill, sponsored by McKell, would better regulate centers for troubled teens.
Of all the testimony provided to the Utah Legislature Monday about abuses at youth residential care centers, Jeff Netto’s may have been the most powerful.
It was packed with the sort of emotion only a 42-year-old could feel while remembering the worst days of his life as a teenager suffering the constant humiliation of solitary confinement and restraint, sometimes for days on end, as well as being tethered to a bed on plastic sheets put in place to repel bodily fluids that come when you are denied use of a bathroom. It was compelling because he’s a native Utahn, an admittedly difficult teenager to deal with 29 years ago, and because, as he said, he would rather never have had to relive those days.

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