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How can anyone be "starstruck" by Lohan?
What I want the media to be reporting on is whether this exact same thing would be experienced by one of us being sentenced.
As I wrote before, this "last in first out" schema seems to be selectively applied. The sheriff is telling us that there were no other low risk non violent offenders that could be released due to over crowding?
Sounds like bull stein to me.
If this happened to me, I would be eating stale baloney sandwiches in a cell with three other guys. 
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Platapus, you are very correct. You would indeed be eating stale baloney sandwiches as you watched yet another celebrity or VIP waltz in and out of the jail long before you...
The Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Lee Baca, is a real piece of work. He has some rather odd philosophies regarding his department and its administration. He also has exhibited a propensity to accomodate celebrity/VIP prisoners no matter how small the celebrity may be in the realm of fame. The "last in first out" schema is not at all being applied in L.A. county jails. Favoritism has long been a factor in who stays and who gets out. Also, if you should happen to be so unforunate as to tick off the Sheriff or one of his deputies in the jail system, you could see your chance for early release evaporate. This is just one of the reasons the department is being criminally investigated; if there were any sense of justice in the running of the jail system, Baca would be a guest of one of his own facilities.
The local media does report on the disparity of sentencing as applied by the Sheriff and other cases of malfeasance and/or mismanagement in the jail system. Much has been pointed out by the press and little has been done by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, the local governing body with jurisdiction over the Sheriff and his operation of the jail system. The only reasons I can suss out is the Board may fear if allegations are proven in court, the County may be liable financially, for very lage amounts of money in ensuing lawsuits.
I really feel for the judges in the Lohan case; they have really, really tried, in terms of penalties, to get something to stick or hold up, but Baca and his insistence to rule his jail "domain" as he see fit, in complete disregard of the intent of the court, thwarts them every time...
I would suggest you do not commit any misdemeanors in Los Angeles County, that is, unless you become famous for the Platapus Song...
