Yeah I'm going to jump on the Paris Hilton bandwagon..

Well right now we may not know the whole story but PubDef.net put the story into some perspective. Especially for those of you who are tired of Paris Hilton and her antics. If anything I don't think she should have been released from jail and I expect that the judge gave her a wake-up call she wouldn't believe. Anyway here's the quote from PubDef.net....

One woman — young, white and wealthy — is sentenced to serve 45 days in jail for probation violation. After serving only three days of her sentence, she complains about a tummy ache and is set free to serve the remainder of her sentence in her mansion.

Another woman — young, black and poor — is arrested for a traffic warrant and even after her boyfriend posts bond, she remains in jail. When she has an asthma attack in her cell, she receives substandard medical care and dies that night.

The second story was incredibly messed up. Let's expand shall we...

Kimble, 30, the single mother of a 12-year-old child, wasn't supposed to be in jail in the first place.

Her boyfriend had posted bond for her about 6:30 p.m. on April 10 in Bel-Nor, which had a traffic warrant against her. That was about four hours after her arrest by St. Louis police. But a release order went to the wrong jail, a mistake that wasn't corrected until she was already dying.

Kimble fell ill about 10:20 p.m. According to jail records, she received three separate treatments of Albuterol, a medication to ease breathing, before she collapsed at 1:25 a.m.

Firefighters from nearby Engine Co. 2 arrived at 1:40 a.m. and began CPR. Medic 5 was five minutes behind, but spent seven or eight minutes thereafter waiting to get in, according to a report by fire department paramedic Chastity Girolami.

The delay was "detrimental to the patient's outcome," Girolami wrote.

She said firefighters told her they had arrived to find nurses trying to perform CPR by compressing Kimble's stomach instead of her chest.

Girolami noted that when medics asked a nurse if she had used an automatic
defibrillator to try to restore Kimble's heartbeat, "She just looked at us and asked what we were talking about."

The jail care was "substandard at best," Girolami wrote in her report.

She also wrote that a corrections officer distracted paramedics with questions about their ID numbers while they struggled to save Kimble's life; the medics twice asked jailers to back off.

"She kept persisting and finally my partner informed the staff that this patient was in cardiac arrest and basically dying, and they would have to wait," Girolami wrote. "The staff was surprised at this. They didn't know the patient was in cardiac arrest."

Kimble was rushed to St. Louis University Hospital, where she died at 2:44 a.m.