Ms. Hilton's lawyer is complaining that his client's prison stay is cruel and unusual punishment. Okay, he didn't use those words but he is saying that it's unfair. Evidently, Ms. Hilton is in a confinement/isolation cell. Her lawyer is complaining that 45 days in isolation (23 of 24 hours in her cell) isn't fair and a normal person would have been placed in a dormitory with other inmates, which would make the time go faster for Ms. Hilton. All she did, he says, is drive on a suspended license while on probation. Of course, he convienently left out the part that it was probation for a DUI.
I am pretty sure that reason Ms. Hilton is in the isolation cell is so that she doesn't have to interact with the "common folk" in the prison population; most likely a move for her safety rather than as extra punishment for being an hotel heiress. I doubt the court system or prison is really all that troubled that Ms. Hilton's time isn't passing very fast. It's the penal system, not summer camp. Although, if every person that went to prison for a DUI received isolation treatment, we might have less repeat offenders.
Just look at it this way, it'll give Ms. Hilton time to write her book on life in the klink.
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What's the big deal about being isolated? 45 days and I don't have to see a single person. That'd be a blessing. Especially a person who is in prison!
You are right, this is prison, not summer camp. If it was supposed to be fun, they wouldn't have to drag you away in handcuffs to get you there.
She's OUT! They caved into her health concerns and let her spend the next 40 days under house arrest. I just bet some publicist or "friend" told her to basically do the whole hunger strike and not sleep thing so that the doctors would have no excuse but to let her go.
I know, I'm a cynic.
I saw video of the type of cell she was in... it's probably smaller than her closet, but it wasn't that bad.
Paris Hilton BBC article
Just wanted to point out that I was right, she wasn't being placed in isolation for more intensive punishment but b/c of who is she. I like how the ward is reserved for celebs... and police officers and politicians.
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