Paris' Date with Jail Looms
Is Paris Hilton nervous?
"Of course, she is," Hilton's Simple Life costar Nicole Richie told E! News' Ryan Seacrest. "I mean anyone would be."
On or before 11:59 p.m. (PT) on Tuesday, Hilton must turn herself into authorities to begin serving a 23-day jail sentence for probation violations. She can surrender at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department facility. Or maybe even at a courtroom. But she must surrender.
There was a report that the 26-year-old hotel heiress might turn herself in sooner rather than later. There was a report that her cellmate had already been selected. There were so many reports that sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore sounded weary Thursday of responding to them. But he did. One more time.
According to Whitmore, the surrender deadline is what it is—June 5; the cellmate situation is undecided.
"We don't know if she'll have a roommate yet," Whitmore said. "Very possibly, she'll be in there by herself."
"In there" is the Century Regional Detention Facility, a county-run jail in Lynwood, California, where Hilton, who was sentenced May 4, will be one of as many as 2,300 female inmates. She'll dress like them (orange jumpsuit), and she'll eat like them (three meals a day), but she won't quite be one of them. Certainly, not all of them.
Hilton will be housed in a so-called special-needs housing unit. (Hilton's special need is her celebrity.) The pod consists of 12 cells, combining to hold up to a 24 inmates.
Apart from her exclusion from the jail's general population, Hilton will go through the usual inmate paces:
- Lights on at 6 a.m.
- Breakfast, usually consisting of cold cereal, bread, orange juice, milk and a hard-boiled egg, from 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
- Lunch, usually consisting of a sandwich, an apple, cookies, veggies and a beverage, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Dinner, centered around spaghetti, pepper steak or perhaps macaroni and cheese, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Lights out at 10 p.m.
Next day, the same drill.
Hilton will also be given a standard-issue inmate kit that includes toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, comb, deodorant, shampoo, razor, pencil, paper, envelopes and stamps. She can get makeup from the jail commissary, provided she has enough funds in a prepaid account.
Inmates like Hilton take their meals inside their cells and can receive daily visits from their attorneys, and one visit a day from others on the weekend. Daily downtime lasts about an hour—precisely how long Hilton can spend outside her cell, and in the larger housing pod.
She will not be allowed to give interviews and jail employees have been expressly forbidden from taking her photograph.
The Simple Life star will not have a TV, but she'll be near one. The housing unit has one wall-mounted set in the common area.
Said Whitmore: "She can see it from her cell."
But she won't have the remote.





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