Actress Lindsay Loahn will be spending several weeks of jail time as her punishment in violation of her probation for DUI. The said facility where she will be locked in is located far away from Hollywood – inside a commonplace two storey structure which stands next to a busy road inside an industrial area. The actress is to start her sentence on July 20 at the unwelcoming 16-year old prison in Lynwood California called the Century Regional Detention Facility located downtown southern Los Angeles. Lohan is said to be housed inside the 2,200-bed structure’s special needs area, where she is to live alone for her well-being.
Because of jail overcrowding and the program that gives credit to the inmates for their good behavior, nonviolent female law offenders such as Lindsay Lohan would usually serve about 25% of their sentenced jail time according to Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles’ County Sheriff Department. This would mean that Lohan’s 90-day jail time could be cut to approximately 3 weeks, which is actually the time for the advance screening of the movie “Machete”, which opens September 3 wherein Lohan plays as nun. This is not the first time that the actress has been to jail. It can be recalled when Lohan spent 84 minutes of lockup in this same facility in 2007 for the same crime – DUI.
The sentence was reduced from the original one day lockup period due to jail overcrowding. During the sentence, she was fingerprinted, searched and locked in bars but the officials have allowed her to keep her street clothes on.