Note To Paris: Life Behind Bars Not Simple

(AP)  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.

Her cell will be Spartan: 12-by-8 feet with a toilet, sink and a window 6 inches wide. She'll comb her blonde locks in a mirror made of polished metal.

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Breakfast is served between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., hours when Hilton sometimes gets in after a night of partying.

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.

A year ago, former "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez showed up to serve a 60-day jail sentence for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding.

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.

[linfinster]

OH Pleeeze! Wake up! You think she's going to spend even a week in jail?? HAHAHA

[tweetybird51-2009]

Well I'm glad she got the jail time.But I also think she shouldn't be put in a high profile cell.She should do her time in a cell like you or I or anyone else would be.So she still is getting special treatment if you ask me.Otherwise maybe she would think about it before she went out drinking and driving.OR even driving period!!Maybe she would take it more serious.Plus she should still have to pay for her housing while she is there.

[sfoulger]

I agree EXACTLY with Myopinion1 below!!!
Well said! Next they need to get that little *** party animal buddy of hers Nicole Richie in jail! I cannot STAND either one of these girls! Britney Spears is an angel compared to them and that has to be pretty bad hu? Why do these *** think they should get special treatment? If they didnt have money they wouldnt even get looked at! Now they know how the real world works!!!

[cricketmk3]

The verdict made me smile but I'll believe it when I see it. Before Paris can serve any time, she'll have to have her cell phone surgically removed from her ear. I hope the media is not allowed anywhere near this jail. I don't want to hear about this relentlessly for 45 days...but I'm glad the streets will be safer for a while anyway.

[oleander8]

...as it should be.