For a minute, when Paris Hilton checked herself into jail, I had a TINY bit of respect for her. After all, she said something along the lines of “people have this image of me and I want to show people that I’ll do the time for the crime.” I thought she was actually going to step up to the plate, albeit in a “special section” of the jail with extra priviledges.

So today, we find out that she was released from jail after 4 days and will spend the rest of her sentence on house arrest for 40 days. What? While I’m sure all of the details haven’t been released, officially they are saying it was partially to do with a medical consideration. Pretty vague to me. Then, tmz.com says they have a source that says “Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.”

Who cares! If this were not a celebrity, I’m guessing the response to an inmate not eating food would be, “Tough. Don’t eat then.” The inmate would have to decide what was more important: eating, but eating crappy food, or not eating and risking the chance of getting sick. Right when I think the judicial system has some things figured out and they put a celebrity in jail who DESERVES to be in jail, they go and do something like this. Why does she get special treatment?

Does this bother anyone else? Or am I jumping to conclusions before we have all of the information?