The Institute (協会)

In all honesty, I'm tired of seeing this woman on the news. She's famous for no good reason - other than her parents are rich and there's a tape of her having sex out there. It's shameful that we (and the media) lap up this sort of garbage.

And you're absolutely right, Anthony. Money makes the whole system keep moving and having lots of it entitles you to just about anything. And this problem isn't just American. This nonsense happens everywhere.

If you are infuriated about the Paris Hilton situation click the link for the email addresses of the people at the LA county DA's office responcible for putting her back on the streets. http://collegecandy.com/reality/3295s

Did you expect anything else to happen? And yes, it does happen everywhere. I think maybe only in Ecuador have they successfully imprisoned corrupt ex presidents.

"Medical considerations"

That's interesing. I wonder if it was the eating disorder or the drug problem?

So Martha Stewart served more time for some ostensible inside trading--not dangerous; Paris Hilton serves a few days for violating her drug/alcohol probation and driving under the influence--dangerous. What a racket.

I wonder if Sarah Silverman was right about Paris breaking a tooth in there (Do a Google search if you don't know what I'm talking about).

I'm glad she's out and not eating any of our tax dollars, not that she ate anyway...
She didn't commit a crime, in that no one was hurt, and there is no one to pay restitution for, she really shouldn't have had to go to jail anyway.

She was caught three times violating her parole. She ought to be serving just for sheer stupidity. Just hire a driver.

"Medical considerations"? That has got to be a joke. If you're in jail and you get sick, you get sent to the county hospital. I work at the county hospital here in Seattle and take care of lots of inmates - and no, it ain't fun to be in that situation, because you get a guard (or two) assigned to watch you all 24/7 and you get restrained to the bed. So no trips to the bathroom even if you can walk. Of course, I don't think any of my patients have any money . . .

What a sham.

jurisnaturalist: No, she didn't hurt anybody, but what she was arrested for is highly dangerous behavior. If she continues driving under the influence, she will eventually kill or injure someone. Letting her out of jail after three days (technically five, but she went in shortly before midnight and left shortly after midnight, so it was really three days) will just tell her that she can do as she pleases. House arrest for a Hilton is nothing like house arrest for most other people. Her home likely contains every conceivable human luxury. No clubbing for her, but there's everything else there.

I saw the clip with Sarah Silverman from the MTV movie awards a few days ago, and I felt sorry for her. Now, however, I'm hoping public humiliation will do what three days in jail won't do--keep her from doing the same thing again.

As a side note, I would like to mention that this entire country needs to crack down much harder on people who drink and drive. This is one area where many European countries do have the right idea. For the equivalent of waving a loaded gun around in public, we sentence people to 45 days in jail. Unbelievable.

Drunk driving is a HUGE problem in my state, mainly because the penalties are light and not consistently enforced. Last week, some driver was arrested following an accident. Turns out it was the drivers 26th DUI. Why does this person still have a license and registered vehicle? It isnt' unusual around here to find out that drivers who are in fatal DUI accidents have 4 or 5 DUIs already under their belt. But since the penalties usually amount to a fine, or some other slap on the wrist, people continue to drink and drive on a regular basis.

Very shameful. Drunk driving needs to be punished much more severly than it already is, and even on that level, this is shameful. I thought Sharpton made very good points, too - that poor people and minorities regularly are required to serve their sentences even when they have health problems and/or handle incarceration badly. I can't imagine what law enforcement found so persuasive about their appeals to overturn this, but it's incredibly disappointing, given the gravity of her crime, and her lack of remorse (she has in interviews called the sentencing unfair because it was a minor traffic violation).

"goawayparis dot com" This is hilarious!