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Can you say "contempt of court"? Paris showed up hours late for court dates, mocked the judge, her mom insulted the prosecutor, then bragged about how much money she had spent to get Paris off. The judge's specific instructions were that she serve her entire sentence and that she not be given special treatment or house arrest, and the sheriff defied the sentence. Paris was also given officer's food in prison instead of prisoner's food.
Once again, I'm going to say to the guy going on about staph infections and overcrowding in the jail: Jail conditions will never improve as long as rich, white people think there is no chance that they will ever go to jail. The way to improve publicize bad conditions is to put the people with money and influence in the same jail as everybody else when they break the law. If Mimsy Soccermom gets a staph infection and six weeks of baloney sandwiches when she cheats on her taxes, then Mimsy will mount a campaign to overhaul the jail system. Mimsy doesn't care how badly poor black folks are treated when they get arrested for having a nickel bag in the car, because "those people" might as well live on another planet as far as she's concerned.
