Paris Hilton Starts Jail Sentence

Paris Hilton the 26-year-old hotel heiress has begun serving her Los Angeles jail sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

“Paris Hilton has turned herself in to begin serving her sentence for violating probation at a Los Angeles County Jail located in Lynwood, California,” Richard Hutton said in a statement.

The socialite was booked late Sunday into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, an industrial area about five miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, according to the sheriff’s inmate locator Web site.

Hilton will be held in a unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates at the jail. The unit is separated from the general prison population, officials say.