Michelle Rodriguez out of jail after 18 days

Former “Lost” star Michelle Rodriguez has found her way out of jail.
Rodriguez
was released from a Los Angeles County women’s jail in Lynwood on
Wednesday after serving 18 days of a 180-day sentence for violating
probation in a drunken driving case, authorities said.
She
was released early under a program that deals with jail overcrowding by
allowing nonviolent female inmates to serve as little as 10 percent of
their sentence.The same thing happened two years ago when Rodriguez served just one day of a 60-day jail sentence for probation violation.
As many as 50 women a day are released early, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
“She was treated the same way we do with all females because of the extent of overcrowding,” he said.
Rodriguez
was sentenced in October for failing to prove she had done community
service and for drinking while wearing an alcohol monitoring deviceThe judge who sentenced Rodriguez ordered that
she serve the entire sentence. The judge was consulted about the early
release but the Sheriff’s Department had the final say when jail safety
was involved, Whitmore said.
“The
sheriff supports, obviously, the desire to have inmates serve their
full sentence,” but the county has only one women’s jail and it is
“bursting at the seams,” Whitmore said.
Rodriguez
was on probation after pleading no contest to drunken driving,
hit-and-run and driving on a suspended license in connection with two
Hollywood incidents in 2003.
While
still on probation, she spent five days in a Hawaii jail in 2005 after
pleading guilty to drunken driving there, which led to her one-day jail
term in Los Angeles for probation violation.
Rodriguez
appeared in one season of ABC’s “Lost.” Her film credits include “The
Fast and The Furious,” “Blue Crush” and “Girlfight.”.