Paris Hilton Prison News
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was released from prison today for medical reasons after serving just over three days of a 23-day sentence. Wow, this is big big news. There is going to be a ton of controversy with this decision.
Officials said she will be confined to her home for 40 days. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said Hilton had been “reassigned” but declined to identify her medical condition for privacy reasons. Maybe she had a mad string of herpes that outbroke in prison.
Hilton (26), a symbol of privilege and American celebrity culture, was serving a sentence for violating probation after being caught driving with a suspended licence. She will have to wear an electronic monitoring device on her ankle to ensure she does not go out for the next 40 days.
One reporter described Hilton’s job as going to parties and events and asked if she would be allowed to leave her home for work, just as lifestyle media star Martha Stewart could during her five months under house arrest for insider trading. I will bet $100 that she will leave her house and violate this order.
“My understanding is that she’s confined to her home with an ankle bracelet, she cannot leave that facility,” said a police spokesman. “She will fulfill the remainder of her time confined to her home.”
The Hilton Hotel heiress was originally sentenced to 45 days in prison. That was later reduced to 23 days under state sentencing guidelines.
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By Celebrity Gossip on June 8th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Paris Hilton May Go Back To Jail
Paris Hilton is headed for a courtroom showdown Friday that could put her back behind bars, as prosecutors sought to hold sheriff’s officials in contempt for releasing her early from jail.
Hilton was ordered to report to court at 9 a.m. and will be brought in a sheriff’s vehicle from her Hollywood Hills home, said Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini.
The frenzy began early Thursday when sheriff’s officials released Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and sent her home under house arrest. She had been in jail for three days.
Hilton was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and was expected to finish her 45-day sentence for a reckless driving probation violation at her four-bedroom, three-bath home.
The decision by Sheriff Lee Baca to move Hilton chafed prosecutors and Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer, who spelled out during sentencing that Hilton was not allowed to serve house detention.
Late Thursday, Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca shouldn’t be held in contempt of court.
Baca does not have to be in court, and it was unclear who would represent the Sheriff’s Department.
The move also was met with outrage from the sheriff’s deputies union, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, civil rights leaders, defense attorneys and others.
“What transpired here is outrageous,” county Supervisor Don Knabe told The Associated Press, adding he received more than 400 angry e-mails and hundreds more phone calls from around the country.
Hilton’s return home “gives the impression of … celebrity justice being handed out,” he said.
Baca dismissed the criticism, saying the decision was made based on medical advice.
“It isn’t wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse,” Baca told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
“My message to those who don’t like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice,” Baca said.
The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and jail officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders like Hilton to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences.
In the hours after Hilton’s release, it was a madcap scene outside her house in the hills above the Sunset Strip. As word spread that the 26-year-old poster child for bad celebrity behavior was back home, radio helicopter pilots who normally report on traffic conditions were dispatched to hover over her house and describe it to morning commuters. Paparazzi photographers on the ground quickly assembled outside its gates.
Shortly before noon, Hilton issued a statement through her attorney.
“I want to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and staff of the Century Regional Detention Center for treating me fairly and professionally,” she said. “I am going to serve the remaining 40 days of my sentence. I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes.”
Hilton’s path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer’s courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
By Celebrity Gossip on June 10th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Questions And Answers About Paris Hilton’s Jail Sentence
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton was in jail, then out, then back again as her bizarre case became more erratic than the driving that landed the hotel heiress in hot water.
On Saturday she was still behind bars, a long way from the red carpet she strolled down a week ago at the MTV Movie Awards, and the subject of endless Internet chatter and questions about her fate.
To help sort it out, here are some answers to those questions:
Q: Where is Hilton now?
A: The 26-year-old is undergoing medical and psychiatric examination at the Correctional Treatment Center at Los Angeles County’s ”Twin Towers” jail facility downtown.
Q: Does she have a cellmate?
A: No. ”Most of the individuals in the Correctional Treatment Center are alone,” said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Q: Will she go back to the same isolated cell she was in earlier in the week at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood?
A: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said he would determine the best place to house the heiress when he learns the results of her medical and psychiatric exams.
Q: How did she end up behind bars?
A: Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer originally sentenced Hilton in May to serve 45 days in jail for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless-driving case. She surrendered to sheriff’s deputies on June 3 and was booked at the Lynwood jail. She was released Thursday with an electronic-monitoring bracelet to serve the remainder of her sentence at home. Sauer ordered her to appear in court Friday and sent her back to jail to complete her 45-day term.
Q: Why did the sheriff release Hilton in the first place?
A: Baca said the heiress’ release was based on her ‘’severe medical problems.”
Q: What’s wrong with her?
A: Baca said he couldn’t reveal the exact nature of her condition because of confidentiality issues, but he characterized her problems as ”psychological.” Hilton’s spokesman had no comment on her health.
Q: Is she a danger to herself?
A: Baca said Hilton is being temporarily housed at a facility that ”has a more intense form of medical support and will watch her behavior so that there isn’t anything that is harmfully done to herself by herself.”
Q: Will the sheriff free her early again?
A: Only if the court shortens her sentence, Whitmore said. ”We will comply with the court’s decision.”
Q: Will she serve all 45 days?
A: Probably not. Hilton will serve about 18 days, Baca said Friday. State law requires that inmates get time off their sentences for each day they serve. Hilton was expected to serve 23 days of her 45-day sentence. Hilton was credited with both her time served in jail and at home, so by Saturday she had completed seven days of her sentence.
Q: Are other inmates usually released before they’ve served their full terms?
A: Yes. County jails are overcrowded, Baca said, and most misdemeanor offenders serve just 10 percent of their sentence. ”Under our 10 percent early release program, (Hilton) would have not served any time in our jail or would have been directly put on home electric monitoring system,” he said Friday.
Q: Are other prisoners released because of medical conditions?
A: Yes. ”It happens all the time,” Whitmore said, depending on the nature of the offense. Nonviolent offenders typically serve 10 percent of their sentence, he said, adding that Hilton ”has done twice as much (time) as any other person with a similar offense.”
Q: Can Hilton appeal?
A: Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz said he expected an appeal to be filed by Monday, but Hilton told her attorney on Saturday that she decided not to pursue the matter.
Q: If she changes her mind, what are the grounds for appeal?
A: Legal experts say that Hilton’s attorney, Richard Hutton, will likely file a writ with an appellate court, possibly the superior court’s appellate division, seeking an emergency hearing on whether the judge overstepped his authority in forcing Hilton’s return to jail after the sheriff released her to home confinement.
Q: Will Hilton ever work in Hollywood again?
A: Of course.
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By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer
By paris hilton on June 13th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Paris In Prison Day 2
By amber thomson on July 9th, 2007 at 3:07 am
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