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When they sent her back after releasing her, I must admit I felt just a little bad for her. To have freedom snatched away like that is pretty tough and rich heiress or not, that to me just didn't seem right.
The thing is, she is a convicted drunk driver and as such should be afforded only those priviledges necessary to ensure her safety in jail. That's it. If the time is two hours or six months, she needs to serve it. Apparently, from what I have read here, and heard on televison, an average person under similar circumstances would have been released after 4 days. In that case she should be released.
I am no fan of hers but for some reason I get little pleasure from seeing her pain (I know, she's never really encountered any adversity in her life so it's about time, okay, okay). Actually, there are quite a lot of people that go through life relying on inherited cash, family connections, and other priviledges that other common folk don't seem to have access to. Sometimes they manage to become President of the United States.
