What Paris Can Expect Behind Bars

LOS ANGELES -- Hopefully, Paris Hilton likes chicken.

She was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood.

Inmates there get three low-sodium meals a day, with dinner the only hot meal. Beef and pork aren't permitted _ "it's all poultry-based," said Capt. Alice Scott, who oversees the 2,200-inmate facility she describes as "a very nice place."

Like other high-profile Los Angeles County inmates _ O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, Robert Mitchum, Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson _ Hilton will be segregated from the general population for her own safety, living in a one- or two-person cell.

Inmates are allowed outside their cells for an hour each day to shower, watch television in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, Scott said. There are a bank of phones that use prepaid phone cards _ cellular telephones and Blackberries aren't allowed.

There have been other celebrities at the women's jail. Actress Daryl Hannah, arrested last year for failing to leave a 14-acre inner-city garden where farmers were being evicted, spent a few hours there.

Sometimes stars are allowed to do their time in a jail of their choosing. In such cases celebrities pay a daily room-and-board fee to the smaller jails, which afford them more privacy and comfort.

Sean Penn found a jail in Bridgeport, a remote town on the eastern flank of the Sierra, to serve a 60-day sentence in 1987 for fighting with a photographer in violation of his probation for a barroom brawl.

Cop-slapping actress Zsa Zsa Gabor served three days behind bars in 1990 at the El Segundo jail near the Los Angeles International Airport. She paid $85 a day.

But the judge in Hilton's case wouldn't allow such an arrangement, so she'll head to Lynwood on June 5.

Paris Hilton to spend 45 days behind bars!

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on May 4, for violating her probation.

Hilton was put on probation after an alcohol related reckless driving offence earlier this year.

Judge Michael Sauer strictly cast off Hilton’s defence that she was misinformed about her license status and ordered the 26-year-old to report to a county detention facility on June 5.

Hilton told the judge she was very sorry and that she would "pay complete attention to everything" from now on.

"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything. I'm sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all,” the BBC quoted Hilton, as stating in the courtroom.

Hilton's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said he would appeal "to modify the sentence."

"To sentence Paris Hilton to jail is uncalled for, inappropriate and ludicrous. She was singled out for who she is. She's been selectively targeted. Paris was honest in her testimony. We plan to appeal. Shame on the system,” Weitzman said.

Hilton was given three years probation earlier this year for pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving after a September 2006 arrest in Hollywood.
She landed in hot water again in late February, when she was pulled over in West Hollywood for driving without headlights. Police confiscated her car, a $190,000 blue Bentley, when they discovered she was driving on a suspended license.

If Hilton fails to report to jail on June 5, she will have to face 90 days behind bars.