Mike Tyson and Lindsay Lohan hit the slammer  
Monday, November 19th, 2007

Today's celebrity (in)justice sees Mike Tyson sentence to 24 hours in jail, and Lindsay Lohan skating out of her light sentence.  As for Lohan, she only served 84 minutes in jail, despite the 4-day minimum sentence requirement (her judge opted for the smallest punishment possible for the crime).  Prosecutors allowed her to serve 10 days of community service instead of two days' worth of jail time, and she was credited for time served from the July DUI charge, so it left only 24 hours in jail, which was hardly reached.

She served her time at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, the same facility where Paris Hilton stayed for her DUI sentence in June.  In fact, she didn't even make it into a cell - she was kept in a holding area and released less than two hours later, just before lunchtime.  So she didn't even get the hard-boiled egg and bologna sandwich.  She was released according to the prison's policy for releasing nonviolent offenders due to "overcrowding."

A prison spokesperson said that Lindsay was "fingerprinted, photographed, and put in a holding cell, but was let go due to our early release policy."  Conspiracy!

Mike Tyson was sentenced today to just 24 hours in the slammer and 3 years' probation for an incident with Arizona police last December, though he could have gotten up to 4 years in prison.  He was leaving a strip club, when cops pulled him over, and found bags of cocaine, plus witnessed him brushing some from the dashboard.  He didn't deny it, and told officers that he uses cocaine "whenever I can get my hands on it."

More recently, Paris Hilton's prison term was cut short due to a "medical issue" (hence all of the subsequent vacation and partying after her release), and Nicole Ritchie served only 82 minutes of her mandatory four-day DUI sentence due to the same reason as Lindsay was released - "overcrowding."

This celebrity injustice is starting to totally piss me off.

   

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