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Paris Hilton released from jail after just 3 days
She's headed home with new accessory: ankle-bracelet monitor
June 7, 2007
FREE PRESS STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES
Socialite Paris Hilton was released from jail early today after serving just three days and will serve the rest of her sentence on home arrest, with an ankle monitor, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said this morning.
At a hastily called news conference, the sheriff's department said Hilton, 26, had been released from the Century Regional Detention Facilty early today, in part, for "medical reasons,'' which a spokesman declined to discuss.
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"After extensive consultation, including with medical officicials... she has been reassigned to the electronic monitoring program,'' said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
"She has been fitted with an ankle bracelet'' and sent home, where she will be monitored for the next 40 days, he said.
Reporters at the news conference questioned Whitmore repeatedly about why she was released and whether she suffered any more stress than other prisoners still incarcerated. He repeatedly said he could not discuss her medical issues.
He cited federal laws that protect medical information. "There are privacy issues that prohibit me, by law, to do that,'' he said.
Hilton checked into the facility Sunday night to begin serving her sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. As of early this morning, the sheriff's department's inmate locator Web site was still saying her projected release date was June 26.
But about 8:51 a.m. Detroit time, the celebrity Web site TMZ.com broke the news that she had been released. The sheriff's department initially declined to comment, and then called the news conference.
The New York Posted reported Wednesday night that a teary-eyed Hilton had received a two-hour visit Wednesday from her lawyer Richard Hutton and psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy.
A lawyer who represents two murder suspects staying in the same ward as the reality TV star and heiress told the newspaper, "They can hear her crying a bit."
"She came out of her cell to make a phone call. She's not used to making collect calls and she needed help. A sergeant had to help her," the lawyer said, adding that inmate 9818783 had been "friendly" with other inmates.
Paris Hilton released from jail after just 3 days
She's headed home with new accessory: ankle-bracelet monitor
June 7, 2007
FREE PRESS STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES
Socialite Paris Hilton was released from jail early today after serving just three days and will serve the rest of her sentence on home arrest, with an ankle monitor, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said this morning.
At a hastily called news conference, the sheriff's department said Hilton, 26, had been released from the Century Regional Detention Facilty early today, in part, for "medical reasons,'' which a spokesman declined to discuss.
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"After extensive consultation, including with medical officicials... she has been reassigned to the electronic monitoring program,'' said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
"She has been fitted with an ankle bracelet'' and sent home, where she will be monitored for the next 40 days, he said.
Reporters at the news conference questioned Whitmore repeatedly about why she was released and whether she suffered any more stress than other prisoners still incarcerated. He repeatedly said he could not discuss her medical issues.
He cited federal laws that protect medical information. "There are privacy issues that prohibit me, by law, to do that,'' he said.
Hilton checked into the facility Sunday night to begin serving her sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. As of early this morning, the sheriff's department's inmate locator Web site was still saying her projected release date was June 26.
But about 8:51 a.m. Detroit time, the celebrity Web site TMZ.com broke the news that she had been released. The sheriff's department initially declined to comment, and then called the news conference.
The New York Posted reported Wednesday night that a teary-eyed Hilton had received a two-hour visit Wednesday from her lawyer Richard Hutton and psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy.
A lawyer who represents two murder suspects staying in the same ward as the reality TV star and heiress told the newspaper, "They can hear her crying a bit."
"She came out of her cell to make a phone call. She's not used to making collect calls and she needed help. A sergeant had to help her," the lawyer said, adding that inmate 9818783 had been "friendly" with other inmates.
