Paris Hilton has been transferred out of a medical ward at a Los Angeles County jail and returned to the all-women's facility where she began her sentence for a probation violation more than a week ago, a sheriff's official said Thursday.

A judge on Friday sent Hilton, 26, to the correctional treatment center for medical and psychiatric examination to determine in which facility she should be held for the remainder of her sentence.

Around 11 p.m. Wednesday, she was returned to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Lt. Daryl Meeks told The Associated Press. Meeks would not elaborate on where in that facility the heiress was housed. When she began her 45-day sentence there on June 3, she was confined to a cell in a special unit away from other inmates.

Hilton's case caused a firestorm when she was released from Lynwood last week by sheriff's officials to serve the remainder of her sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case in home confinement.

Sheriff Lee Baca said Hilton was released because of an undisclosed medical condition. Critics said the celebrity was getting special treatment, and an outraged judge sent her back to jail Friday.

source: starpulse

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