It's outrageous – all Michelle Rodriguez wants to do is find beauty in a jail cell and the sods keep setting her free before she can properly find it.

Although Michelle Rodriguez started her 180-day jail sentence for probation violation just over a fortnight ago, it has been reported that she was last night set free for good behaviour. In total Michelle Rodriguez served just 17 days of her six-month sentence.

Michelle should count herself lucky – one day longer and she'd have had to suffer through a full 10 percent of her sentence. Imagine how hellish that would be.

Remember when Michelle Rodriguez went to jail for six months a couple of days before Christmas? Aside from the fact that it meant policeman could work over Christmas without a lairy mannish-looking woman from the Dominican Republic stumbling up to them and ordering them to put a gun to her fucking head, what do you remember most about it?

Was it, say, that Michelle Rodriguez was found to be ineligible for either work furloughs or house arrest and had to – absolutely had to – serve out the entire six months of her jail sentence, all of it, from beginning to end, with not even a sniff an early release?

Funny that, because that's what we remember about it, too.

Not that anything like that matters, though, because Michelle Rodriguez's 180-day sentence for skipping community service from a previous conviction and drinking with a SCRAM anklet has been cut to just 17 days, and she was released last night. People reports:

Michelle Rodriguez was released from the Lynwood, Calif., jail Wednesday night after serving just 17 days of her 180-day sentence… The 29-year-old actress got out at 7:50 p.m., according to her official web site.

17 days? 17 measly days? That's rubbish. Honestly, what's a decent self-respecting female inmate like Michelle Rodriguez supposed to accomplish in 17 poxy days? That's only enough time to get you a brown belt in shiv-fencing at best, plus it's nowhere near the amount of time that Michelle Rodriguez's body needed to build up an immunity to the biro-ink tattoo performed with a spit-sterilised needle that she was planning to give herself. 

Still, Michelle Rodriguez's early jail release hold an important moral for all of us – if you're going to break the law, then do it in Los Angeles. And it helps if you're the shit one from Lost as well.

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Michelle Rodriguez Out of Jail – Early! – People 

Beanie Sigel is a rapper who's been shot in the shoulder in the past, but that's hardly going to measure up to the hell of what he's about to experience.

That's because Beanie Sigel has been sentenced to jail for repeated parole violations. And we're not talking some light-touch 90-minute jail sentence like Lindsay Lohan or Nicole Richie got, either – Beanie Sigel is going downtown bigtime, for a full backbreaking 24 hours.

Hopefully jail will do the trick for Beanie Sigel, and we're expecting him to come out older and wiser. 24 hours older and 24 hours wiser, to be precise.

Beanie Sigel has been in some bad places in his life – the man lives in Philadelphia, for God's sake, a town named after cheese – as evidenced in some of his more hard-hitting hip-hop bangers like Oh Daddy and bakery/dairy unification anthem Bread & Butter. So it's not surprising that, in his time, Beanie Sigel has found himself in trouble for this and that.

Famously Beanie Sigel was shot in the shoulder two years ago, although nobody knows why because he decided to communicate with police by singing about poo-handling alone. But that's just the tip of a slightly depressing iceberg – Beanie Sigel also spent a year in jail for attempted murder before he was aquitted and went to jail again for not paying his child support on time.

And now Beanie Sigel is going to jail again, but this time is deserved, because Beanie Sigel has done possibly the most evil thing a man can do – he went to Atlantic City.

As much as going to Atlantic City is a crime worthy of jail in itself, the truth is that the trip violated his probation for all of the above, especially since he's claimed to have met a known felon there. And that's why a judge yesterday sent him to jail. For a day. According to CNN:

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered Sigel to spend a day in prison and extended his probation by 18 months, including [a six-month] halfway house stint. During those six months, Sigel can pursue his work in Philadelphia by day but cannot travel to promote his latest album, "The Solution." The 33-year-old rapper (real name: Dwight Grant) has had a string of legal problems in recent years but insists he is a changed man. "I'm human, but I'm working on my mistakes," he told Surrick. "I do believe that other people do get a chance to go back into society and do the work that they do."

And that's precisely what Beanie Sigel is doing – he's toured schools lecturing about responsible behaviour, he's made videos all about the dangers of getting shot then writing a song about it that mainly deals with pooing – or something – and, bizarrely, he's also staged an anti-violence march with Bill Cosby.

All of that convinced the judge to just give Beanie Sigel a day in jail instead of the nine months that he could have. But still, a day in jail for going to a cold, grimy casino town sounds about fair. After all, Nicole Ritchie got 82 minutes in jail for driving into oncoming full-speed motorway vehicles on drugs, and going to Atlantic City is roughly 17 times more serious than that, so we'd say it was a fair call.

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Beanie Sigel sentenced to 1 day in jail - CNN