Thursday, June 07, 2007

I want to go to Paris jail!

I was reading a very reliable news source this morning (www.people.com) and found out Paris Hilton has been reassigned to her home from jail.
Here's the article... Read and then scroll down for my comments.

Due to an undisclosed "medical condition," Paris Hilton has been reassigned from jail to her home, where she will wear an electronic monitoring device. "She was not released, she was reassigned," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. spokesperson Steve Whitmore said at a press conference Thursday. He provided few other details about the medical condition, citing privacy laws, and declined to say whether it was physical or psychological, or whether it related in any way to reports that Hilton had been miserable behind bars. Whitmore also did not know whether the condition was pre-existing, but said the decision to reassign Hilton was made after "extensive consultation" with medical personnel. He did say that she did not have a staph infection, responding to reports that the facility had experienced a staph outbreak. Hilton was transferred shortly after midnight on Thursday, Whitmore said. "She was transported out of here by us, there was a transference to her attorney, and then she was taken home." Asked how her spirits were, he replied: "She was ... focused, let's put it that way." As a result of the reassignment to her home, Whitmore said, Hilton's original 45-day sentence has been reinstated. In essence, this "nearly doubles her sentence" in terms of days, he pointed out, as she had been expected to serve 23 days behind bars with good behavior. If she violates the terms of the reassignment, he added, "she will be remanded immediately to the court. ... The judge made it clear that that would be an automatic bump-up to 90 days." Hilton has been credited with five days of time served and will spend the remaining 40 days confined to her home wearing an ankle bracelet with a range of 3,000-4,000 square feet. Asked whether she would be confined completely, Whitmore said: "There's some fudge with that. If someone goes and gets their mail, if they're 30 minutes outside, that's okay. It's a complicated electronic situation." Whitmore said that leeway would not extend to parties or events. "Here's my understanding: She's confined to her home with an ankle bracelet. She cannot leave that facility," he said. Hilton will remain at her Hollywood Hills mansion, which includes a swimming pool, a large kitchen with a marble island, two living rooms – one of which has a stripper pole installed – and portraits of the heiress on the wall. Whitmore said the sheriff's department is not concerned with appearing to be soft on the celebrity inmate. "It doesn't matter how we look, really," he said. "We just hopefully do our job and do it professionally, with a sense of humanity." TMZ.com reported Thursday morning that Hilton had been released early Thursday. Hilton, 26, began her sentence Sunday night at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, south of Los Angeles. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by driving with a suspended license. Amid speculation that she would actually serve much less time due to prison overcrowding, police said she would spend at least 23 days behind bars.


Wow, where do I begin?!?! First of all, she was focused? Of couse she was, she spent less than 5 of her 23 days in jail. She was focused on getting home, putting her feet up in one of her two living rooms, and sipping on champagne and munching on caviar.
Here's where I'm going to get serious and on a soapbox.... She was in jail for breaking parole. She was on parole for a DUI. Any other person who had a DUI would have had his/her butt thrown in jail. Just because she's famous she gets off scott free! What lesson has she learned? Perhaps she's learned, fake an ilness, mental or physical, and get out of jail early/free. This isn't a freaking Monopoly game! GRRRR
Okay, no more rants, the next blog will be fabulous! Nelson turns 4 today! I'm going to go celebrate him.

1 comment:

Van Lente Family said...

You make me laugh! Oh, to be rich and famous ;-)