Paris' First Day on the Inside
All is well with Paris Hilton, despite the whole jail thing.
Less than 24 hours after turning herself in to begin a 23-day sentence for probation violation, the Simple Life star, otherwise known as prisoner 9818783, is "doing well," her attorney, Richard A. Hutton, told reporters outside the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California.
"Her attitude is, 'I'm going to come in here, I'm going to do my time, get it over with, and I'm going to show the world who I really am,'" Hutton said. "She's using this time to reflect on her life, to see what she can do to make the world better."
Hilton, accompanied by Hutton, sister Nicky and mom Kathy, surrendered last night at 11:15 at Men's Central Jail (aka the Twin Towers) in downtown Los Angeles, an arrangement cooked up by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to make the process go more smoothly in light of the horde of paparazzi waiting for the heiress' arrival outside the suburban facility.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore didn't say how Hilton made the 16-mile trip between the two jails, but he said that she remained "cooperative and focused." Now that she's behind bars, he added, there will be no more comments on the subject until she is released.
After she was fingerprinted and given a brief medical screening, Hilton was issued a booking number and wristband ID, trading her street clothes and accessories for the jail's standard-issue orange shirt and pants and personal hygiene items.
"She's doing very well under the circumstances," Hutton said. "The staff here have reported that she has been gracious, polite and thankful for helping her."
But although Hilton has said that she's ready to take responsibility for her actions, telling E! News Sunday at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards that she would try to use this experience "in a positive way," Hutton remained adamant that his client was being forced to undergo more than she deserves.
"She's in isolation for 23 of the 24 hours of the day," Hutton said. "And ask yourself, for what? For driving on a suspended license as a probation violation. This is unjust, unfair, and she really is, unfortunately, a victim of a system that we pride so much on being fair.
"But for Paris Hilton, it is not. Finally, my client's reaction to this has been fantastic. I'm very, very proud of her."
Hutton might have an ally in Los Angeles Times media columnist Tim Rutten, who, in denouncing the lack of public concern over whether Hilton's sentence fit the crime (driving several times with a suspended license while on probation for a misdemeanor DUI offense), wrote in his May 12 column that Hilton's sentence resembled more closely that of someone who had been caught drinking and driving again.
"The clear impression was that [Superior Court Judge Michael] Sauer had decided to make an example of a spoiled young woman who was behaving as if her celebrity put her above the law," Rutten wrote.
"Because of who she is, they had no choice," Hutton said. "And believe me, we are more interested in her safety than anything else—but they had no choice but to place her in administrative segregation. The one hour of the day she's out, she's allowed to...take a shower or talk on the phone."
Having not been assigned a roommate, Hilton has a cell to herself in Century Regional's 12-cell special needs unit, which keeps up to 24 inmates separate from the facility's 2,200-strong population.
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