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Lindsay Lohan checked into the Lynwood Jail in Los Angeles Thursday to serve a court-ordered sentence related to drink and drug charges and left 1 hour and 24 minutes later.
Lindsay Lohan began her summer with two arrests related to driving under the influence and possession of cocaine, admitted her life had become “completely unmanageable” due to addiction to alcohol and drugs and headed to rehab.
She spent some two months at the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah and left the facility in early October. Lindsay is now complying with court orders: TMZ.com was first to report that the 21-year-old actress reported to the Lynwood Jail on Thursday.
Lindsay had until January to serve one day behind bars. In August, she was initially sentenced to the mandatory minimum of four days in jail but prosecutors agreed to allow her to serve community service instead of two days behind bars.
Authorities also took into consideration a day she had already served in July, after her second arrest. According to the sheriff's department Web site, the actress turned herself in Thursday at 10:30 a.m., and was released at 11:54 a.m., according to the jail’s policy of releasing non-violent offenders early to prevent overcrowding.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told People.com: “Ms. Lohan was cooperative. She was fingerprinted, photographed, and put in a holding cell, but was let go due to our early release policy.”
Lindsay also began the court-ordered 10 days community service Monday, at a local Red Cross. Her father, Michael Lohan, has already spoken about Lindsay’s work, telling people.com: When she was younger, I had her at hospitals, visiting cancer patients and sick kids.
“I know she wants to do stuff like this, mission work. I asked her how it was going and she said she is really enjoying it. She's happy.”
Lindsay has also been ordered to attend an 18-month alcohol education program during her three-year probation as part of her sentence for two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine.
Lindsay is not the first celebrity to see the inside of a jail due to her run-ins with the law.
Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days for a driving violation in July, but spent a considerably smaller amount of time behind bars. She nevertheless came out a different person, as she repeatedly said afterwards during interviews. Her best friend Nicole Richie also checked into jail in August, for driving under the influence of drugs. She checked out a mere 80 minutes later.
More stars are bound to serve jail time, as Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to six months behind bars ix months behind bars in October for violating her probation on several DUI-related charges, while Kiefer Sutherland has been ordered to serve 18 days starting December 21 for violating probation on a DUI conviction, and another 30 days for driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08% by July next year.
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