http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/16/paris.hilton.ap/index.html

F'n p0rn star gets off light because she is more special than you.

Such is the way of the world it appears.

The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit"
Does that mean she'll be taking the short bus to jail? Hell no, more like the the stretch limo by the sounds of it. She'll be housed in a cell "reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates". It's nice to see justice being applied equally. :rolleyes:

Would anyone else agree that when a societies justice system is different for a priveleged class then said society is set for a decline?

Oh oh, now I'm sure I'm on a list somewhere.

This isn't anything new. We put poor people in jail and rich people get off scot free all the time. At least the rest of us get to hear about it nowadays.

shocking money and influence effect the justice system!

shocking!

still disappointing tho

It's nice to see justice being applied equally. :rolleyes:So separate must necessarily mean unequal? Is this some spillover from your desegregation rhetoric?

There is good reason to separate cops and celebrities from the general population, just as there is reason to separate a violent prisoner from a simple drug offender (we do that too, and even build separate facilities for drug offenders).

I thought Martha Stewart was mixed right into the prison population.

I thought Martha Stewart was mixed right into the prison population.That was prison, and I think she went to a very low security one that probably housed only nonviolent offenders. This is jail, where most of the population is mixed in together.

There is good reason to separate cops and celebrities from the general population, just as there is reason to separate a violent prisoner from a simple drug offender (we do that too, and even build separate facilities for drug offenders).
I can understand why cops would be placed in a separate place -- they have an adversarial relationship with people who have been arrested. I don't see why Paris couldn't be housed with other non-violent offenders.

When I heard about her requesting a special prison cell or arranging to go to a "select" minimum security prison, I was sort of torn on the subject. When I originally heard about it, supposedly her family was going to pay for the cost of her living arrangements in that other prison - apparently when there are low flight-risk, minimum danger prisoners, sometimes local county jails can option to take in those prisoners instead of Federal institutions. While county jails may not be posh by any means, they are generally less crowded and much safer. The cost of housing someone in these county jails is generally handed to that local government in the form of a special budget allowance. Again, supposedly Hilton was requesting this since she was a low flight risk and she had claimed that she had already received death threats from the inmates at the prison she was originally assigned to.

The death threats I can believe - I'm sure there are tons of inmates who would jump at the chance to be known as the "person who killed Paris Hilton". However threats and action are usually two very different beasts - I'm sure that the prison would have to be very sure of her safety to avoid a scene and lawsuits should anything actually happen to her in jail.

Also, while I'm not a fan of judges being lenient towards... well any specific group... I do feel that Hilton's sentence was particularly harsh as she was being made an example of. The jail time, the refusal of early release, and the refusal of prison relocation - it all smacked of a father saying "I'm making an example of you!"

Putting that all together, I think that if the Hilton's were willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to move Paris to a local prison, they should've been allowed to do so. However, in Fy'yr's article, it sounds like we're doing the same thing, but it sounds like we're footing the bill for it.

Her claim to be so special that she needed lenience was laughable. I hope it gave the judge a good giggle too.

There is a case that she'd be mistreated by other inmates. Are there low security prisons for non-violent offenders in the US or is everyone housed together?

There is a case that she'd be mistreated by other inmates. Are there low security prisons for non-violent offenders in the US or is everyone housed together?This is not prison. This is jail. Jails typically house alleged criminals awaiting trial, and those serving out sentences for misdemeanor offenses (less than one year, typically a few weeks or months).I don't see why Paris couldn't be housed with other non-violent offenders.Because it's jail, and many types of people are mixed together (including people accused of violent crimes, but still awaiting trial).When I heard about her requesting a special prison cell or arranging to go to a "select" minimum security prison, I was sort of torn on the subject. When I originally heard about it, supposedly her family was going to pay for the cost of her living arrangements in that other prison - apparently when there are low flight-risk, minimum danger prisoners, sometimes local county jails can option to take in those prisoners instead of Federal institutions.She isn't going to prison. And certainly not a federal prison, I don't know where you get that from.

I can't say I've paid super special attention to it, I just know she was going to prison_a and she asked to be sent to prison_b

I don't see why Paris couldn't be housed with other non-violent offenders.

She should be housed where your girlfriend would be housed if she broke the law like that.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that your girlfriend is as stupid as this chick. So don't misconstrue what I am saying. /smirk.

She should be housed where your girlfriend would be housed if she broke the law like that.People with a certain level of fame (or notoriety) shouldn't be housed with the general population. It is a risk to them, and could upset order in the facility.

We're talking about some stupid traffic offense here after all, I don't even understand why she was sentenced to jail.