Paris Hilton is now free, woop de doo, and the LA sheriff who let her out early is still recovering from being publicly decried as a starstruck fan. In response to the outpouring of hate mail he has received he has issued the following statement:
"Our doctors said we had no solution to Hilton’s medical problems. None. As a sheriff in this county, I’m not going to let any inmate die in this jail. What’s worth more: a person spending time in a county jail for driving on a suspended license or a person losing her life? She was at a place where we couldn’t fix whatever that medical problem was with the resources we have. We knew this problem was not going to get better. We were placed in a very unusual and awkward position with Ms.Hilton...Everyone who goes in to serve county jail time is early released. If Ms.Hilton got preferential treatment, it’s that she spent more time in the county jail than the average inmate.”