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Written by Caryn Rousseau, asap
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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Just hours before Paris Hilton turned herself in to serve a 23-day prison term, the hotel heiress told reporters: “I did have a choice to go to a pay jail. But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it, and I’m going to be treated like everyone else. I’m going to do the time, I’m going to do it the right way.”
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QUESTION: What is a pay jail?
ANSWER: “This is a very unique kind of facility within a facility, or a unit within a facility,” says Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore. “It’s usually for a short-term stay. The inmate pays a certain amount of money. They get a little better quality of facility and they get access to things, depending on the place.”
Ross says there’s a long history of having prisoners pay for things while they’re behind bars — and that it’s normal in some countries.
“The practice of having prisoners pay for things and special things isn’t new,” Ross said. “Having them pay for the quality of jails is new.”
Certain municipalities also have “pay-to-stay” programs, where inmates pay a certain amount of money per day and can leave the jail to go to work, returning at night. They often are kept away from the county jail population and sometime do chores, like laundry.
The Associated Press story on Paris Hilton’s incarceration noted that when actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was sentenced to three days in jail for slapping a cop in 1990, she paid $85 to stay at the El Segundo jail near the Los Angeles International Airport.
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