SEEKING ANATOLE FRANCE. The law, in all its majesty, allows the rich house arrest in a venue suitable for intimate parties.

Her new lockup is a four-bedroom, three-bathroom, Spanish-style home on .14 acres above the Sunset Strip.

She didn't even need Amnesty International to spring her.

According to reports, Paris is very emotional and has been crying hysterically down the phone to her mother, complaining that her cell is freezing cold and that she has not been able to eat.

Unlike her fellow inmates, who are serving their sentences in dorm-like rooms, Paris has been placed in solitary confinement for her own protection.

As Milwaukee's Charlie Sykes noted, sounds like Club G'itmo.

Confined to a 12-by-8-foot (3.7m-by-2.4m) cell, with a bunk bed, sink, toilet and a single window, Paris is isolated for 23 hours a day.

Dressed in the standard prison garb - bright orange cotton/polyester-blend jumpsuit created by fellow Los Angeles County inmates in sewing classes - life is pretty lonely for Hilton.

Mealtime consists of simple fare - lunch on June 5 was reportedly a bologna sandwich and two chocolate-chip cookies.

"She's in isolation for 23 of the 24 hours of the day," her lawyer, Richard A. Hutton told reporters on Monday.

Mr Sykes finds rare common ground with The Rev. Al Sharpton, who notes,

There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.

Quite so.