Paris Hilton May serve 22 Days or Less

johnnymk · 05-11-2007, 02:21 PM

UGH!!

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...T/70511016/-1/

Paris Hilton may spend far less than 45 days in county jail for violating probation because of California policies and jail overcrowding, authorities said Thursday.

Hilton, sentenced last week to do the time, could spend three weeks or less behind bars because of a state requirement that grants inmates time off for good behavior and because of overcrowding in the system, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

"It's possible that it could be 21 days, 23 days. It's a complicated formula that the
state sets down. It's possible that she could do less time," Whitmore told The Associated Press.

As for overcrowding, "our jail is bursting at the seams" and some women inmates have been released after serving only 10 percent of their sentence, Whitmore said.

Last year, "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail for
violating probation after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding.

Hilton's time will be determined when she is booked into the county system, Whitmore said.

She will not receive any favors because she is a celebrity, he added.

"She will be treated like any other inmate who's classified as a low-level security
risk," Whitmore told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the development on its Web site.

A call to Hilton's publicist seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Hilton, 26, was sentenced last week for violating the terms of her probation in an
alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to the women's jail in Lynwood by June 5.

Hilton intends to appeal and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.

Butch · 05-11-2007, 03:12 PM

Aren't there more important things to worry about? Frankly, she is a low level security risk, as the article notes. I fully believe in fitting punishment, but so long as her punishment is no worse than average for her offense, then you have to blame the system rather than be pissed that she's not getting anything worse.

gwilks98 · 05-11-2007, 03:48 PM

I'll donate money to build a bigger jail so she can serve the full sentence. Where do I sign?

Thesifer · 05-11-2007, 04:17 PM

Minus the last part of this "pardon from the Gov." as long as he doesn't do it, which I don't see why he would, then I don't see any problem with it as long as they are doing what they do for every other Low Security Inmate that comes their way.

Our prisons are overcrowded, because they jail people for silly things like "Smoking or selling Mari-J" I mean really, prison time?

Selling Alcohol is worse then that.

Kevster · 05-12-2007, 07:48 PM

It really annoys me that Paris may not serve her entire sentence - she truly deserves it (and more, IMHO)

Apparently there's a lot of people who feel the same way I do:

No sympathy for Paris Hilton

Quote:

Are you heartbroken that Paris Hilton has been sentenced to jail? Me neither.

I take it as welcome evidence that occasionally karma gets it right and the universe slaps those most in need of slapping. Rarely has comeuppance been more desperately deserved.

Not just because she is a famous-for-nothing socialite, nor just because she is an empty vessel inexplicably adored by people for whom vacuousness is apparently synonymous with worth. No, comeuppance is needed here because the woman embodies such smug certainty that the rules do not apply to her. More to the point, because of the utter contempt she oozes for those who are not like her, i.e., not monied, privileged, pretty, white and heedless.

I didn't get the depth of that contempt until the online release earlier this year of a video that shows Hilton dancing at a party. At one point on the clip, she describes some unnamed unfortunate as "a f——— hoodlum, broke, poor public school bitch from, like, Compton." Compton is a working-class city south of Los Angeles. At another point, Hilton describes herself and a friend as "like two ******s." At yet another point, she calls someone a "******." Don Imus got fired for less.

But for Hilton, it was a one-day story. Fox did not cancel the "reality" show she does with Nicole Richie. No sponsors are known to have pulled their ads. No coalition of blacks, gays and Comptonites demanded her head.

No, she skated away scot-free without really answering for her words or even being questioned for them. Which seems the story of her life. And that's troubling, given that Hilton is regarded as a role model, someone worthy of emulation, by so many young girls.

Your actions have consequences: isn't that a sermon every good parent has, at one time or another, preached to his or her child? If you dance to the music, you've got to pay the piper: isn't that a cliche we keep on speed dial? So what do you say to the child about these people whose actions "don't" seem to have consequences, who dance to the music and then leave the piper hanging because they are celebrities, able to do the distasteful and the reprehensible and get away with it because the little people love them? The little people need to wake up and find somebody worthy of their love. Hilton is not. A life of privilege, pampering and insulation from consequences has left her a moral cripple, and there's nothing admirable in that. Paris Hilton is a snotty child so besotted with herself, so clueless about the rules that govern life here on planet earth that you almost -- but only almost -- felt sorry for her in reading news reports about her sentencing.

She was pulled over three times for driving on a suspended license while on probation for drunk driving? She showed up to court 15 minutes late? Did she really tell the judge she can't be bothered to look at her mail because "I have people who do that for me"? When asked if she had understood the terms of her probation, did she really say, "I just sign what people tell me to sign. I'm a very busy person"? Not anymore, she's not. The judge gave her 45 days. She'll be doing her time at a women's facility in Lynwood, a city just north of Compton. And isn't that poetic justice. No, I have no illusion that any of this will damage Hilton's popularity; cluelessness is part of her appeal.

Still, as a parent, a person and a public school graduate, I hope the kids who admire her are taking note: Consequences may arrive late, but they almost always arrive. Something for Hilton to consider as she spends 45 days wearing an orange jumpsuit and taking group showers in a little place I like to call reality.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

johnnymk · 05-12-2007, 08:07 PM

Excellent article, Kevster..and lest we forget, she was driving drunk. She could have killed or maimed someone.

Napoleon54 · 05-12-2007, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnymk

Paris Hilton May serve 22 Days or Less

I guess that's what 10 minutes under the judge's desk will do for ya.

Up N Here · 05-12-2007, 11:48 PM

Well, in the event she does only get half of her jail time or less -I'm reasonably sure she will do something else stupid and have to face the music (the court) once again. After all "she's too sexy for her shirt..." in her own eyes, that is…

johnnymk · 05-17-2007, 07:04 AM

http://www.charlotte.com/200/story/124513.html

LOS ANGELES --Paris Hilton will serve about half of her 45-day jail sentence and will be separated from the general inmate population, authorities said Wednesday.

The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Her sentence was shortened after jail officials gave her credit for good behavior, Whitmore said. Officials considered several factors in calculating the credit, including that she appeared for her latest court date, he said.

Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates, he said.

Like everyone else in the 2,200-inmate facility, Hilton will get at least an hour outside her cell each day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, he said.

The 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to jail this month for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to jail by June 5.

A call to her lawyer, DUI specialist Richard Hutton, was not immediately returned. Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, declined to comment.

zippyjuan · 05-17-2007, 01:04 PM

So how many other prisoners who showed up at their latest court date go THEIR sentence cut in half?

DarkFury · 05-17-2007, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Napoleon54

I guess that's what 10 minutes under the judge's desk will do for ya.

So you alledge that she has reviewed the Judge's "legal breifs" eh? Guess she must've gotten this Judge to review her "habeas corpus" huh?

http://www.gotapex.com/off-topic/954...-all-rise.html (this brings a new meaning to the bailiff saying, "all rise")

Hmmmmm... I guess the jury shall have to deliberate on that one.

05-11-2007, 02:21 PM	#1
johnnymk Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2000 Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA Posts: 13,621	Paris Hilton May serve 22 Days or Less UGH!! http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...T/70511016/-1/ Paris Hilton may spend far less than 45 days in county jail for violating probation because of California policies and jail overcrowding, authorities said Thursday. Hilton, sentenced last week to do the time, could spend three weeks or less behind bars because of a state requirement that grants inmates time off for good behavior and because of overcrowding in the system, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "It's possible that it could be 21 days, 23 days. It's a complicated formula that the state sets down. It's possible that she could do less time," Whitmore told The Associated Press. As for overcrowding, "our jail is bursting at the seams" and some women inmates have been released after serving only 10 percent of their sentence, Whitmore said. Last year, "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating probation after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding. Hilton's time will be determined when she is booked into the county system, Whitmore said. She will not receive any favors because she is a celebrity, he added. "She will be treated like any other inmate who's classified as a low-level security risk," Whitmore told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the development on its Web site. A call to Hilton's publicist seeking comment was not immediately returned. Hilton, 26, was sentenced last week for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to the women's jail in Lynwood by June 5. Hilton intends to appeal and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.

05-11-2007, 03:12 PM	#2
Butch Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York, NY Posts: 2,915	Aren't there more important things to worry about? Frankly, she is a low level security risk, as the article notes. I fully believe in fitting punishment, but so long as her punishment is no worse than average for her offense, then you have to blame the system rather than be pissed that she's not getting anything worse. __________________ I used to be into sadism, necrophilia and beastiality, but then I realized I was just beating a dead horse

05-11-2007, 03:48 PM	#3
gwilks98 Vice Admiral Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: StL Posts: 4,300	I'll donate money to build a bigger jail so she can serve the full sentence. Where do I sign? __________________ "I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them fall away." "Cold silence has A tendancy to Atrophy any Sense of compassion." MJK

05-11-2007, 04:17 PM	#4
Thesifer Vice Admiral Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,338	Minus the last part of this "pardon from the Gov." as long as he doesn't do it, which I don't see why he would, then I don't see any problem with it as long as they are doing what they do for every other Low Security Inmate that comes their way. Our prisons are overcrowded, because they jail people for silly things like "Smoking or selling Mari-J" I mean really, prison time? Selling Alcohol is worse then that. __________________

05-17-2007, 07:04 AM	#9
johnnymk Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2000 Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA Posts: 13,621	Hilton's jail term cut to about 23 days http://www.charlotte.com/200/story/124513.html LOS ANGELES --Paris Hilton will serve about half of her 45-day jail sentence and will be separated from the general inmate population, authorities said Wednesday. The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Her sentence was shortened after jail officials gave her credit for good behavior, Whitmore said. Officials considered several factors in calculating the credit, including that she appeared for her latest court date, he said. Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates, he said. Like everyone else in the 2,200-inmate facility, Hilton will get at least an hour outside her cell each day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, he said. The 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to jail this month for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to jail by June 5. A call to her lawyer, DUI specialist Richard Hutton, was not immediately returned. Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, declined to comment.

05-12-2007, 08:07 PM	#6
johnnymk Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2000 Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA Posts: 13,621	Excellent article, Kevster..and lest we forget, she was driving drunk. She could have killed or maimed someone.

05-12-2007, 11:48 PM	#8
Up N Here Lieutenant Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 249	Well, in the event she does only get half of her jail time or less -I'm reasonably sure she will do something else stupid and have to face the music (the court) once again. After all "she's too sexy for her shirt..." in her own eyes, that is…

05-17-2007, 01:04 PM	#10
zippyjuan Picture of the Day Guru Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sunny San Diego Posts: 8,756	So how many other prisoners who showed up at their latest court date go THEIR sentence cut in half? __________________ I add new pictures to my photo gallery pretty regularly. You can see them here if you are interested: http://www.pbase.com/jeffryz

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