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Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

Numbers show heiress's stint in jail will be longer than 80% of similar offenders

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 14, 2007 12:53 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Paris Hilton wasn't just  being a spoiled brat when she cried injustice on being hauled back to jail earlier this week. The weepy celebutante is in fact doing more hard time than most people guilty of crimes like hers, the LA Times reports after  analyzing 1,500 similar cases in the last five years.

If Paris had stayed home when the sheriff  sprung her after the first four days, her stint would have been similar to those served by 60% of those offenders. If she serves 23 days of her 45-day sentence, she'll be behind bars longer than 80% of her prison peer group—those arrested for drunk driving and jailed for a probation violation or driving without a license.

Rick and Kathy Hilton enter the Twin Towers jail facility to visit their daughter, Paris Hilton, in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Nick ut)
Rick and Kathy Hilton enter the Twin Towers jail facility to visit their daughter, Paris Hilton, in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Nick ut)   (Associated Press)
Media broadcast outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Twin Towers Correctional Facility buildings Friday June 8, 2007 in Los Angeles. Following a hearing Friday where she was ordered back to jail, Paris Hilton was taken to a correctional treatment center at the Twin Towers jail for medical and psychiatric examination...
Media broadcast outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Twin Towers Correctional Facility buildings Friday June 8, 2007 in Los Angeles. Following a hearing Friday where she was ordered back to jail,...   (Associated Press)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca talks about issues related to the incarceration of Paris Hilton at a news conference at Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in Monterey Park, Calif., Friday, June 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca talks about issues related to the incarceration of Paris Hilton at a news conference at Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in Monterey Park, Calif., Friday, June 8, 2007....   (Associated Press)
(FILES)Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, arrives at the Metropolitan...
(FILES)Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, arrives at the Metropolitan...   (Getty Images (by Event))
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