Forgive me for a rare Paris Hilton rant. In case you haven’t heard, Hilton got busted for reckless driving and then later driving with license suspended with her headlights off at night. Darn lucky she didn’t hurt anybody.

I was surprised to hear that she wasn’t getting the celebrity slap on the wrist, the judge sentenced her to 23 days in jail. Good judge. This morning my surprise turned to anger when I learned she’d been released to house arrest after only serving three days because of a “medical condition“:

“With extensive consultation with medical personnel it was decided this reassignment should be done,” Whitmore said at a news conference … [Hilton] will have to wear an electronic monitoring device on her ankle to ensure she does not go out for the next 40 days.

Look, I’m no doctor but what kind of medical condition generates a get out of jail free card after 3 days on a 23 day sentence? Ok, maybe not completely ‘free’ since she’s confined to house arrest for 40 days, but what are the odds she doesn’t stay there for all 40 days?

And then what? She gets 50 days in jail only to leave after 5 because she broke a nail? I don’t swear very often here, but it’s appropriate in this case for the millions of people incarcerated who don’t get out of jail so easily: bullshit.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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