Paris Hilton's jail time investigated

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Paris Hilton's jail time investigated

(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-14 09:52

Paris Hilton leaves the Los Angeles County Correctional Facility in
Lynwood, California, in this file photo from June 26, 2007. The Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department has opened an investigation into
whether Hilton received special treatment during her 23 days in jail last
month, a spokesman for the department said on Friday.[AP]

LOS ANGELES - The Sheriff's Department opened an investigation Thursday
into allegations that Paris Hilton received special treatment during her
23 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless
driving case, authorities said.

The internal probe will examine whether the hotel heiress was given free
access to a cordless phone instead of being forced to wait in line to use
a pay phone at certain hours, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Also under scrutiny are claims Hilton received a new jail uniform instead
of the recycled ones given to many inmates and that her mail was
delivered by a captain instead of inmate trusties, Whitmore said.

The allegations were brought to the attention of the department's union,
the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, by its members, the Los
Angeles Times reported Thursday on its Web site.

Whitmore said the claims differ from the department's own information
about Hilton's incarceration.

"We're going to investigate it and get to the bottom of it and find out
exactly what happened," he said.

A message left with a Hilton spokesman late Thursday was not immediately
returned.

The department was also accused of granting Hilton special treatment when
Sheriff Lee Baca released the 26-year-old from jail after only three days
for medical reasons. She was sent back to jail after one night.

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