Paris better lose the attitude in jail, warns ex-convict

PARIS HILTON has been given some friendly advice by an ex-convict: lose the attitude.

The heiress has been sentenced to 45 days in prison for driving with a suspended licencse, breaking the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

She spent the weekend gearing up for a legal challenge to the term, but if that fails, come June 5, she will be serving time at the Century Regional Detention Centre, Los Angeles County’s jailhouse for women.

And she’d better like chicken. Inmates get three low-sodium meals a day, with dinner the only hot meal. Beef and pork aren’t permitted — “It’s all poultry-based,” said Captain

Alice Scott, who oversees the 2,200-inmate jail she calls “a very nice place”.

Like other high-profile Los Angeles County inmates — O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, Robert Mitchum, Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson — Hilton will be segregated from the general population for her own safety, living in a one- or two-person cell.

“She’ll be fine as long as she doesn’t come in saying ‘I’m Paris Hilton’ with an attitude,” said Jasmine Garrison, who was released from the jail at the weekend after serving two months for drunken driving.

Others said her presence would help break up the routine, and she’d be deemed good to be friends with as she’d have money aplenty in her canteen account.

Her cell will be Spartan: 12 -by eight feet with a toilet, sink and a window six inches wide. She’ll comb her blonde locks in a mirror made of polished metal.

Breakfast is served from 6 a.m. to 7.30am, hours when Hilton sometimes gets in after a night out.

Inmates in segregation were allowed outside their cells for at least an hour each day to shower, watch television in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, said Ms Scott.

At her sentencing on Friday, Hilton maintained she was unaware her driving licence was suspended.

However, Judge Michael Sauer said there was “no doubt” she knew.

Hilton pleaded no contest in January to alcohol-related reckless driving stemming from a September 7 arrest in Hollywood.

She was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, alcohol education and about 1,100 in fines.

Two other traffic stops, and her failure to enrol in an alcohol education programme, are what landed the socialite back in court.

Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, first gained notoriety for her hard partying as a teen.

A sex tape she made with a boyfriend was also released on the internet.