Paris Hilton checks into Los Angeles County Jail

Paris Hilton- 26-year-od heiress, check into a Los Angeles County jail to begin a three-week stay for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. She surrendered to sheriff’s deputies after making a surprise visit to the MTV Movie Awards in Sunday afternoon.

Then she turned herself in at the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles just after 10:30 p.m., and was escorted to the all women's facility in Lynwood, where she was booked, fingerprinted and issued a jail uniform (Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said).

The "Simple Life" star will be housed in the "special needs" unit of the 13-year-old jail, separate from most of its 2,200 inmates. The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates.

Like other inmates in that unit, Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-foot-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones or BlackBerrys are permitted in the facility, even for visitors.

The jail, a two-story concrete building next to train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. It's located in an industrial area about five miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

On Saturday, about 15 photographers, reporters and television crews staked out the entrances to the jail waiting for the celebutante's arrival. Authorities had also cordoned off a grassy area outside the facility for the media. She had until Tuesday to report.

On Sunday, about a dozen photographers and television crews were at the Lynwood facility when she arrived in an unmarked SUV. Video captured by celebrity news site TMZ.com showed Hilton inside the vehicle with her mother.

Officers arrested Hilton in Hollywood on Sept. 7. In January, she pleaded no contest to the reckless-driving charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.

She was pulled over by California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive.
She then was pulled over by sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27, at which time she was charged with violating her probation. (Source: http://www.timesunion.com/)