LOS ANGELES – Actor Lindsay Lohan was released from prison under the cover of darkness early yesterday after serving 13 days of a 90-day sentence. She was brought straight into a rehabilitation programme.
Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy Benjamin Grubb said Lohan left Lynwood detention centre in Los Angeles at 1.35am, managing to evade the dozens of paparazzi waiting outside for her.
Lohan (24), whose promising career has fallen foul to several years of Hollywood partying, was sentenced last month after violating her probation on a 2007 drunk-driving charge by missing a string of alcohol education classes.
She went into the all-female prison on July 20th but her sentence was reduced for good behaviour and, under early-release programmes, to combat overcrowding in Los Angeles’s budget-strapped prison system.
She served her time in isolation because of her high profile, but prison officials have said she was treated like any other inmate, eating the prison food and serving her time in a 12ft by 8ft cell.
Her sentence stipulated that she begin an immediate 90-day stint in rehabilitation on release. She was sent to jail after a Beverly Hills judge grew frustrated with her multiple absences from court-ordered alcohol education classes.
Celebrity website TMZ.com said Lohan would be treated for bipolar disorder and an amphetamine addiction. TMZ and rival outlet Radaronline.com said she would be at a facility operated by the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital System. Her representative did not immediately comment. – (Reuters)