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Harsh Reality: Richie Draws 4-Day Sentence

Wrong-way starlet pleads guilty to DUI

Jul 27, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Giving the cast of The Simple Life an 0-for-2 record in the California courts, Nicole Richie was sentenced to 4 days in jail today after pleading guilty to driving the wrong way on an LA freeway while under the influence of drugs. The skeletal starlet must attend 21 days of... More »

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drugs • alcohol • DUI • drunk driving • marijuana • Vicodin • sentencing • jail • Nicole Richie • The Simple Life • painkiller

Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

Give 2,000 inmates
the Hilton treatment, Lee Baca urges

Jul 12, 07 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The sheriff who put Paris Hilton on mansion arrest is now championing a bill that would curb the overcrowding in California jails by sending thousands of other Los Angeles County inmates home to carry out their sentences. Some 2,000 low-level offenders would be tracked via ankle monitoring devices under... More »

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California • prison • police • Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • Lee Baca • LA County Jail • convict • prison system • overcrowding • jail

The Simple
Life in Jail:
Bad Food,
Fan Mail

'Let the time serve you,' advises celebucon

Jun 28, 07 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Still convinced she got a "raw deal," an almost Zen-like Paris Hilton spilled the beans yesterday about her 23-day stretch in stir, where the food "wasn't that tasty" and being strip-searched was the most humiliating experience of her life. Also especially tough: not being able to hug... More »

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Paris Hilton • God • spirituality • Larry King • heiress • jail • CNN

Paris Is Liberated

It's been a great three weeks, though

Jun 26, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Our long national nightmare is over; Paris is out of the slammer. The heiress left the Los Angeles County jail in Lynwood just 15 minutes after midnight today—technically completing a three-week stay—and was swarmed by a crowd of waiting photographers enroute to her parents' black SUV. More »

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Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • probation • heiress • jail • Lynwood • community service

Bears Drop
Tank After
DUI Arrest

DT 'embarrassesed
and upset' team for
the last time

Jun 26, 07 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - They stood by him loyally while he served jail time for unlawful weapons possession, but  the Chicago Bears had had enough: the team abruptly released DT Tank Johnson after his latest mishap—a DUI in Arizona. The 300-pound, second-round pick had been warned that there was no further margin for... More »

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NFL • DUI • Tank Johnson • Chicago Bears • drunk driving • jail • Lovie Smith

Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

It ain't the Hilton, but even California prison food has standards

Jun 14, 07 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cuisine at the LA County Jail may not be fit for an heiress, but meals in the California's penitentiary system are surprisingly appetizing, the Chronicle reports. Paris Hilton has reportedly been turning up her nose at provisions in the poke, although state regulations require chow to be tasty, varied and... More »

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food • California • prison • Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • LA County Jail • cuisine • celebrity • heiress • jail

Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

Prison turns heiress towards religion, ABC

Jun 12, 07 6:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton says she's found God and will change her life at the end of her 45-day jail term. Barbara Walters chatted with the heretofore mischievous and materialistic heiress on a collect call from prison, and recapped the conversation on yesterday's View. "I have become much more spiritual,"... More »

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The View • Barbara Walters • Paris Hilton • ABC • religion • God • LA County Jail • celebrity • faith • heiress • jail

Paris Is Liberated

Serial reckless driver shifted to house arrest, picks up snazzy
ankle bracelet

Jun 7, 07 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jailed heiress Paris Hilton will get to do her time from her $3.1 mil Hollywood Hills mansion, due to an unspecified medical complication. The celebutante started what should have been a truncated 23-day sentence for reckless driving Sunday, but was transferred to a full 40 days of house arrest... More »

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Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • celebrity • heiress • jail • house arrest • mansion

Bring Justice to Libby: Fine Him

Bush can keep Scooter free without letting him off the hook, former attorney says

Jun 7, 07 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former federal prosecutor and Bush 41 lawyer William Otis suggests a third way on Scooter Libby—between pardon and prison. The rule of law demands some penalty for leaking Valerie Plame's identity, says Otis, but "a sense of proportionality" rules out sending Libby to the hoosegow. The court's... More »

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presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • conviction • sentencing • jail • George W. Bush

Eight Games; No Tanks

Bears defensive tackle suspended for half a season after violating probation

Jun 5, 07 4:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell continued the league's crackdown on unsavory extracurriculars with an 8-game suspension of Tank Johnson, who was recently jailed for violating probation on gun charges and whose bodyguard was killed in a club shooting in December.  Johnson hopes to pare the suspension to six games with... More »

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NFL • Roger Goodell • football • Tank Johnson • probation • jail

Paris Checks In at Concrete Hilton

Heiress skips from
MTV Movie Awards to the prison ward

Jun 4, 07 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Socialite Paris Hilton checked out a new set of bars late Sunday, at the LA County Jail. The celebutante debuted there in her three-week sentence for violating probation last month. Paris chose the venue herself, passing up ritzier pay prisons to deflect media rebukes. "I'm going to do the... More »

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Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • MTV Movie Awards • LA County Jail • celebrity • heiress • jail • Century Regional Facility • presidential election

Paris Gets
Prison Break

Sentence halved; sheriff books heiress room in 'special' unit

May 17, 07 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Before even setting foot in jail, Paris Hilton is already getting time off for good behavior. The celebutante will serve only 23 days of her 45-day sentence, and she'll spend it in a "special needs housing unit"—a sort of Hilton behind bars—reserved for high-profile inmates, the... More »

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Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • paparazzi • celebrity • heiress • jail

Pals Seek Pardon for Jail-Bound Heiress

Ask Governator to spare ambassador
of "hope for young people"

May 8, 07 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton fans are rallying to keep the heiress out of an orange jumpsuit. More than 1,000 have signed an online petition to Gov. Schwarzenegger to pardon her for the parole-violation conviction that otherwise will cost her 45 days in jail. The grounds: that she "provides hope for... More »

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Arnold Schwarzenegger • Paris Hilton • celebrity • pardon • heiress • jail

Hilton Headed
To Hoosegow

Heir-head violates probation, draws
45 days behind bars
(not the fun kind)

May 4, 07 10:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Supply your own "simple life" joke: Paris Hilton is going to jail. After finding that the famous-for-being-famous socialite violated her probation, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Sauer today sentenced her to 45 days. The sometime reality-TV star wept as she learned she has until June 5 to find... More »

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Paris Hilton • drunk driving • sentencing • probation • jail

LA Wants Paris Behind Bars

City prosecutors recommend jail
term for scofflaw heiress

May 3, 07 9:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Los Angeles prosecutors want to show Paris Hilton the real simple life: jail. The city's lawyers are pushing for the itinerant blonde heiress to spend 45 days in the slammer for repeatedly violating her parole on a reckless driving conviction after a tad too much clubbing last fall. Hilton got... More »

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alcohol • Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • drunk driving • celebrity • heiress • jail

TB Patient Spends Nine Months In Lockdown

ACLU questions forcible quarantine of man with drug-resistent TB

May 2, 07 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A tuberculosis patient has been in forced quarantine in an Arizona hospital's jail ward for nine months for failing to wear a face mask and take his medication. Robert Daniels committed no crime, but neither did he follow doctor's orders to avoid transmission of his drug-resistant TB.  More »

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health • disease • Tuberculosis • Robert Daniels • quarantine • jail

Pay-to-Stay Prisons Have a Lock on Style

No price on freedom, but cash buys kinder incarceration in California jails

Apr 29, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Californians convicted of minor, non-violent crimes can pony up to stay in jail cells that look more like college dormitories, the New York Times reports. For $75 to $127 a day these in-the-know inmates are separated from violent offenders and, in some cases, allowed a cell phone, laptop, or iPod. More »

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California • prison • self pay jails • convict • prison system • jail

Artest Could Face Jail Time in Domestic dispute

Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest was charged with four misdemeanors Tuesday.

Mar 21, 07 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest was charged Tuesday, March 20, with four misdemeanors stemming from an altercation with his wife earlier this month. The famously temperamental NBA player could spend time behind bars if found guilty on any of the four charges, which include battery and corporal injury to a... More »

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sports • NBA • basketball • prison • Detroit Pistons • Indiana Pacers • Sacramento • Sacramento Kings • Ron Artest • battery • domestic violence • jail

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