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Article: Area jails reap benefits from celebrity justice
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- Pasadena Star-News
- Article date:
- January 25, 2008
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For well-heeled convicts sentenced to jail for relatively minor
crimes, a cell at one of a handful of Southern California city jails
is just a fistful of cash away - and Glendale's facility is gaining
a reputation as an oasis.
At $85 a day, demand has surged for the jail's pay-to-stay
program after errant celebrities Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Collins
recently picked the site to bunk down in.
While Sutherland, 41, star of "24," was released last week, and
Collins, 69, a veteran of countless TV shows, also is gone, the jail
has been flooded with calls.
"After Kiefer and Gary, we got inundated with calls, so we
actually have people lined up through the summer," said jail
administrator Juan ...
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