Talk about a breakdown of civil rights – not so long ago The Game was sentenced to 60 days in jail for threatening to kill a man with his gun.

That's not where the loss of civil rights comes in though. No, that comes with the news that The Game has been released from jail after serving just eight days of his 60-day sentence.

Eight days? That means The Game had to spend about one eighth of his jail sentence actually in jail. Don't these people know who The Game is? As a celebrity, his time locked up should have been strictly capped at a twelfth of the sentence, tops. Expect a really bloody angry enquiry any day now. 

We'd hate to imagine how The Game feels at the moment. After he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for threatening to shoot a man to death during a basketball game, The Game knew that he'd get to spend Easter in Los Angeles' Twin Towers Correctional Facility – the happiest time of the year to be incarcerated thanks to the presence of Easter Barry, basically a large man wearing homemade rabbit ears who gives each inmate an egg-sized clump of shit before stabbing them in the ribs.

But now The Game has been released just eight days after he first went to prison, and that meant the only festival he got to observe was Albanian Teacher's Day – a day marked in jail by Easter Barry pushing his own shit into everyone's hands and then stabbing them. Boring! No rabbit ears or anything.

Anyway, the point is that The Game is out of jail after a piffling eight days. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Rapper the Game has reportedly been released from jail, just eight days into his 60-day sentence. The star, real name Jayceon Taylor, was handed the prison term in February after pleading guilty to felony gun charges… But according to TMZ.com, the Game is now a free man after being released early from the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in California on Monday.

Now, although you might think The Game would be pretty chuffed at getting out of jail 52 days earlier than he thought he would, you need to consider the implications and the conflicting feelings he'll be experiencing. Yes, he's a free man, but the justice system didn't smile as kindly on him as it did with Nicole Richie. Not only that, but by released early at all, The Game has proved himself to be less gangsta than Paris Hilton. Talk about being caught between two shitheads.

Ultimately, though, The Game's early release from jail was for the best. He now has to complete 150 hours of community service, and that will force him to actively improve his surroundings instead of just idly sitting around swapping bomb-making tips with criminals which would have happened if he'd have stayed in the slammer.

But best of all, eight days in jail was no time for The Game to pen his drearily inevitable jail album, sparing us all the agony of having to actually listen to it. Now, at worst, we only have to put up with The Game's concept EP, Eight Dayz In Tha Pound.

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