Lindsay Lohan out of jail after less than 5 hours
Lohan checked herself into the Century Regional Facility in Lynwood at 8:58 p.m. Sunday to begin serving her 30 day sentence for violating her probation.
Since she is a nonviolent offender serving less than 90 days in jail, she was released early due to jail overcrowding.
Lohan was driven away in a Cadillac Escalade before 2 a.m.
This is her fifth jail sentence since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007.
Lohan was sentenced last week to 30 days in jail after she admitted that she violated her probation by failing to complete court-ordered psychological counseling and community service.
Lohan was ordered to attend 19 psychological counseling appointments for 45 minutes each.
She canceled 14 of them, and stayed for only 30 minutes for the five sessions that she did attend.
Lohan was also required to complete community service hours at the Downtown Los Angeles Women's Shelter and the Los Angeles County Morgue.
She was terminated from her assignment at the women's shelter after she failed to show up on multiple occasions.
Of her 20 scheduled sessions, the prosecutor said, Lohan canceled 12. On three of the dates that she attended, she left earlier than the required four hours.
The 25-year-old "Mean Girls" actress waived her right to a hearing on the violations, choosing instead to admit fault.
Judge Stephanie Sautner found Lohan to be in violation of her probation and sentenced her to 300 days in county jail.
Sautner allowed Lohan to wait a week to start her sentence, however, so she could finish up a nude Playboy shoot for which she signed a six-f! igure co ntract.
Sautner outlined a strict counseling and community service schedule for Lohan upon her release.
That will substitute for the 270 additional days in jail, provided Lohan meets the terms.
"From what I know of you, you need a structure," Sautner said. "This is a structure."
Sautner noted that the women's shelter was willing to take Lohan back, but said "I'm not going to put them through that." Instead, all of Lohan's community service will be performed at the morgue.
Lohan must return to court on December 14.