I wonder if she will do a "Simple Life - Prison Style"... of course it will be one of those "women in prison" movies that are shown on late night cable.
(Not that I would know anything about such movies )
Paris Hilton headed to prison
by Elsewhere 31 Replies latest jw friends
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Tara
Who would have thunk it? Paris Hilton on an ex-JW board!
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zeroday
NO NO NO not my baby doing time... I'LL DO HER TIME... I'LL GO TO PRISON FOR HER...I'll get on a plane to LA today...
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minimus
She knew better but I think they just were trying to make her an example. A bit too harsh in my opinion.
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Mary
LMAO! I for one am very glad that spoiled little brat is headed to the Big House. I'm sick to death of the rich and famous getting away with a slap on the wrist.
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Blueblades
Prison? No! More like Bed and Board. No real ( hard time.) pun intented
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frozen one
A bit too harsh in my opinion.
Let's review. She lost her driving priviledges with a DUI and then got cited 3 times for driving suspended. She failed to go to court ordered classes. If you or I thumbed our noses at the law and got caught, would being sent to jail for 45 days be too harsh? Would it be unexpected? Young Ms Hilton should follow Martha Stewart's lead and do the time with little protest or delay. When she gets out she can do the talk show circuit and sell her story to the highest bidder.
A couple of guys at work got DUIs last summer. They lost their Commercial Drivers License (CDL) priviledges for 1 year. The employer has a policy that says if you lose your license for 6 months you are fired. The employees jobs had CDL requirements so they were terminated. Comparing losing your livelihood to spending 45 days in jail, which consequence would you rather face?
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minimus
Frozen One, I see your point. But I do think she was watched and singled out.
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Elsewhere
She lost her driving priviledges with a DUI and then got cited 3 times for driving suspended. She failed to go to court ordered classes.
Don't forget... she also showed up for court ten minutes late yesterday.
I'm amazed she got away with all of that for so long.
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Brother Apostate
Do you really believe she'll do time in a normal prison?
I doubt it.
She'll probably go here or somewhere like it:
For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail
Monica Almeida/The New York Times Nicole Brockett is serving her sentence for drunken driving in a pay-to-stay cell at the jail in Santa Ana, Calif.
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: April 29, 2007
SANTA ANA, Calif., April 25 — Anyone convicted of a crime knows a debt to society often must be paid in jail. But a slice of Californians willing to supplement that debt with cash (no personal checks, please) are finding that the time can be almost bearable.
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For offenders whose crimes are usually relatively minor (carjackers should not bother) and whose bank accounts remain lofty, a dozen or so city jails across the state offer pay-to-stay upgrades. Theirs are a clean, quiet, if not exactly recherché alternative to the standard county jails, where the walls are bars, the fellow inmates are hardened and privileges are few.
Many of the self-pay jails operate like secret velvet-roped nightclubs of the corrections world. You have to be in the know to even apply for entry, and even if the court approves your sentence there, jail administrators can operate like bouncers, rejecting anyone they wish.
“I am aware that this is considered to be a five-star Hilton,” said Nicole Brockett, 22, who was recently booked into one of the jails, here in Orange County about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, and paid $82 a day to complete a 21-day sentence for a drunken driving conviction.
Ms. Brockett, who in her oversize orange T-shirt and flip-flops looked more like a contestant on “The Real World” than an inmate, shopped around for the best accommodations, travelocity.com-style.
“It’s clean here,” she said, perched in a jail day room on the sort of couch found in a hospital emergency room. “It’s safe and everyone here is really nice. I haven’t had a problem with any of the other girls. They give me shampoo.”
For roughly $75 to $127 a day, these convicts — who are known in the self-pay parlance as “clients” — get a small cell behind a regular door, distance of some amplitude from violent offenders and, in some cases, the right to bring an iPod or computer on which to compose a novel, or perhaps a song.
Many of the overnighters are granted work furlough, enabling them to do most of their time on the job, returning to the jail simply to go to bed (often following a strip search, which granted is not so five-star).
The clients usually share a cell, but otherwise mix little with the ordinary nonpaying inmates, who tend to be people arrested and awaiting arraignment, or federal prisoners on trial or awaiting deportation and simply passing through.
The pay-to-stay programs have existed for years, but recently attracted some attention when prosecutors balked at a jail in Fullerton that they said would offer computer and cellphone use to George Jaramillo, a former Orange County assistant sheriff who pleaded no contest to perjury and misuse of public funds, including the unauthorized use of a county helicopter. Mr. Jaramillo was booked into the self-pay program in Montebello, near Los Angeles, instead.
“We certainly didn’t envision a jail with cellphone and laptop capabilities where his family could bring him three hot meals,” said Susan Kang Schroeder, the public affairs counsel for the Orange County district attorney. “We felt that the use of the computer was part of the instrumentality of his crime, and that is another reason we objected to that.”
A spokesman for the Fullerton jail said cellphones but not laptops were allowed.
While jails in other states may offer pay-to-stay programs, numerous jail experts said they did not know of any.
“I have never run into this,” said Ken Kerle, managing editor of the publication American Jail Association and author of two books on jails. “But the rest of the country doesn’t have Hollywood either. Most of the people who go to jail are economically disadvantaged, often mentally ill, with alcohol and drug problems and are functionally illiterate. They don’t have $80 a day for jail.”
The California prison system, severely overcrowded, teeming with violence and infectious diseases and so dysfunctional that much of it is under court supervision, is one that anyone with the slightest means would most likely pay to avoid.
“The benefits are that you are isolated and you don’t have to expose yourself to the traditional county system,” said Christine Parker, a spokeswoman for CSI, a national provider of jails that runs three in Orange County with pay-to-stay programs. “You can avoid gang issues. You are restricted in terms of the number of people you are encountering and they are a similar persuasion such as you.”
Monica Almeida/The New York Times 