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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

(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... Read full story »

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