Los Angeles - Socialite Paris Hilton has gone from a red-carpet event to a prison cell, surrendering ahead of schedule for her incarceration. The 26-year-old heiress checked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood late on Sunday. She is expected to serve three weeks for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
Hilton surrendered to sheriff's deputies after making a surprise visit to the MTV Movie Awards in the afternoon. "I am trying to be strong right now," she said on the red carpet. "I'm ready to face my sentence.
Even though this is a really hard time, I have my family, my friends and my fans to support me." Sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore said Hilton had been "helpful", "focused" and "co-operative". Hilton turned herself in at the Men's Central Jail in the Los Angeles cbd just after 10.
30pm, then was escorted to the all-women's facility in Lynwood, where she had been booked, fingerprinted, photographed, medically screened and issued an orange top and trousers, Whitmore said. After checking in, Hilton was given her first meal: cereal, bread and juice. The Simple Life star will be housed in the "special needs" unit of the jail, separate from most of its 2 200 inmates.
The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials and celebrities. Hilton's cell has two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small window. Like other inmates in that unit, Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 9sq m space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the phone.
No cellphones are permitted in the facility, even for visitors. "I did have a choice to go to a pay jail," Hilton said on Sunday. "But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I'm not, and that's why I wanted to go to county (jail), to show I can do it and I'm going to be treated like everyone else.
" Sometimes, stars are allowed to pay a daily room-and-board fee to a smaller jail of their choosing, which affords them more privacy. The Madame Tussaud's wax museum in New York took the opportunity to dress Hilton's mannequin in a black-and-white striped prison suit. A spokesperson said the dummy would stay in prison garb for as long as her real-life counterpart.
Los Angeles - Socialite Paris Hilton has gone from a red-carpet event to a prison cell, surrendering ahead of schedule for her incarceration.
News RSS