Word: jails
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...starting to seem as if the state of young female celebrity has devolved into an endless stream of DUIs, spray tans and Adderall prescriptions, take heart. There is a crop of actresses in the wings who have never been to jail, nor have they been photographed pantyless or passed out. Promises, to these young women, means things you keep, not a rehab in Malibu...
...sheriff, only to be ordered back by an irate judge amid a storm of public outrage and media glee. But even then it is not to the county lockup she is remanded but to a special medical facility, for an unspecified ailment, at 10 times the cost of regular jail...
...Georgia citizens were so troubled when the homecoming king was sentenced to 10 years for having consensual oral sex with his underage girlfriend (he was 17, she was 15), the state legislature amended Georgia's child-protection act to reduce the offense to a misdemeanor. But Genarlow remains in jail after 28 months because lawmakers did not make the change retroactive. Jimmy Carter spoke out for leniency. On June 11, a judge ordered Genarlow released, citing a "grave miscarriage of justice." His mother called it a miracle. But still he sits in jail, since the state attorney general vows...
Maybe every prisoner has a story, and most will never get told. But these two throb with irony and pity: Paris' punishment, captured for the ages as she cried, "Mom! It's not right," on the way to jail, fits her crime; it serves to protect the public, since nothing short of jail appeared sufficient to keep her from getting behind the wheel. The deterrent value for other heiresses who are tempted to run off the road remains to be seen. Genarlow, though, is generally viewed as undeserving of his sentence, unthreatening to public safety, his example useless...
...have trouble finding a buyer for this house, and why I'd have trouble buying a new one here myself," says Martinez, who now works two jobs in order to pay his tax and insurance bills. Unless Martinez wants to leave South Florida, "I'm essentially in jail in my own house...