Paris Hilton released from jail early
She gets sentenced 45 days and is released in 5 ??? WTF
They should have sentenced her to a tour in Iraq and all them insurgence would be running over each other to bug out of there helter-skelter asap.
Come on Roo, give the no talent attention whore, drunk driving, probation breaking a break…she has medical issues and was driven to tears for christ sakes.
~Matt
It’s the subject of much comedy this morning on the talk radio shows. I’ll go on record as being disgusted and underwhelmed by our legal system here.
I want to be “punished” with house arrest and sent to the Hilton Estate!
Thanks largely to 3 strikes laws, California’s penal system is bursting at the seams and many felons do zero time; they show up at the jail and are told to come back another day when they might have room. Paris didn’t get any sort of special treatment, she probably did more time than most for a similar conviction.
With the latest budget announcement, we now spend more on locking people up in CA than we do sending people to College. Pretty sad state of affairs.
People are funny, the vote for propositions to lock more people up but don’t want tax hikes to build prisons.
It wasn’t even really 5 days, more like 3 full days and part of two others. She checked in late Sunday and left at 2:00 a.m. Thursday.
Yeah the medical issues were she wasn’t eating the prison food … not in line with her usual faire I guess.
Being already so stick thin, I guess them prison authorities could just be envisioning what law suits they would have on their hands if she collapsed of food depravation or worse still if she kicked the bucket!
What amazes me is that I think she really is under the impression that she is America’s sweetheart, hence her previous statement about herself qualifying to be jail exempt. With the kind of lifestyle she seems to be leading, what are her chances of contracting AIDS?
She probably thinks she’s exempt from that too. - 
They also don’t want those prisons built in their back yard.
I heard the medical issue was a skin rash…hmmmnnn…
on which part of her anatomy? -
Nope… not a skin rash…
Whining has become a medical condition… haven’t ya’ heard?
Joe
Yeah, she had a cell to herself in a special section of the jail reserved for “special” prisoners. Really busting at the seams, eh!
I imagine all the hard time inmates talking through the door slots . " Oh mister corrections officer, could I get a some air freshener and a clean blanket mine smells like ass.
Excuse me I need to up grade to a better room ?
My makeup has smeared and its poor cell phone reception here, Hello ?
All the justice you can afford.
It is not ‘upgrading to a better room’. She was put into solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (albeit only three days). It was for her safety and for the purpose of keeping the jail in order. You can’t put celebrities in general population for the same reason you don’t put police officers and politicians in general population - because the entire jail becomes more of a circus than it already is, and the celebrity/police officer/politician is put into physical danger. Trust me, I don’t like Paris Hilton as much as anyone, but she doesn’t deserve to be put in physical danger by virtue of being incarcerated.
I understand that alot of people are outraged over the entire thing - but the simple fact of the matter is that this stuff happens all the time, but no one notices. The only reason anyone is paying attention is because she is a celebrity, and now people are crying “see what money gets you!” - when the same thing would happen to john doe off the street.
Stuff like this happens all the time with sentencing. You rarely serve the amount of time that comes out of the judge’s mouth when issuing a sentence. Most people don’t realize that you only do 2/3 of ANY Sentence with good time served. (i.e; you get sentenced to a nine month incarceration period - you only do six unless you f-up inside). Jails are so overcrowded it is a complete joke. The fact is that if she stays, you pay for her medical treatment while she’s in jail with tax dollars, and she takes up an entire cell (more cost). It makes sense to send her home, where she has her own insurance to pay for medical providers and accomplish the purpose of the sentence through home confinement.
That actress from Lost was only in jail for a few hours before they released a bunch of people, including her, due to overcrowding.
Who really cares how long Paris stays in jail anyways? The more you care about and bitch about it the more we hear about it. I wish everyone would just ignore her and not comment at all.
The only reason anyone is paying attention is because she is a celebrity, and now people are crying “see what money gets you!” - when the same thing would happen to john doe off the street.
Except that in So. Cal John Doe would not get 45 days for driving on a suspended license (which happens automatically when you are arrested on a DUI which was later reduced to a misdemenor wet reckless and pled out). In this case she is getting special treatment – a worse deal because she is famous. Additionally, it is not often that a judge will make comments on the type of time to be served. That is typically the provence of the jail/prison system, as is compliance with the various consent decrees, etc. governing the operation of the system.
There is a hearing today where the LA Sheriff is going to be grilled for his action in switching her to house arrest. THAT should calm the circus (How do you change color to pink?:-))
She was already in jail so I don’t see how overcrowding is in issue in her case.
Heard this morning that the Judge and a couple other “higher ups” are pissed that she got out and were never informed that she was being released. Might be a possibility she’s headed back.
~Matt
“I understand that alot of people are outraged over the entire thing - but the simple fact of the matter is that this stuff happens all the time, but no one notices.”
Yeah,…I don’t think so. She wasn’t released because of overcrowding. she was released by the sherrif’s Department in direct contradiction to her sentence which said she could not get house arrest, and she was released for “undisclosed medical reasons” which appear to be that she didn’t like the food. It looks like she will be going back, will have her dietary supplements delivered to the prison, and the Sherrif’s Dept is being directed to show cause for why they should not be held in contempt for diobeying the judge’s order. This doesn’t happen every day.
Har-har … HAR … she’s been hauled back in, and that stupid Sherrif is in the hot soup for contradicting the Judge’s orders.
Well Paris is right about one thing … and that is she does provide some entertainment value for the public.