LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying on Friday after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

Hilton was brought to court in handcuffs. She came into the courtroom disheveled and weeping. Her hair was askew and she wore a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks. She wore no makeup and cried throughout the hearing.

At a news conference late Friday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca defended his earlier decision to release Hilton to home detention.

Baca cited jail crowding and what he described as Hilton's "severe medical problems" in his decision to have her sent home with an electronic monitoring device.

He said that Hilton was medicated when she was first admitted to jail, and that the sheriff's office did not know about the medication. Hilton did not tell jail officials about the medication, Baca said.

"She comes to jail. She has medical needs. We know all of them," he said.

Hilton's body shook constantly as she dabbed at her eyes in court Friday. Several times she turned to her parents, who were seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed the words, "I love you."

Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer was calm but apparently irked by developments of the morning. He said he left the courthouse Thursday night having signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing.

Sauer said that when he got in his car early Friday, he heard a radio report that she would not appear and that he had approved a telephonic hearing. He said no such thing had been approved by him.

The judge said of the decision to release Hilton from jail after three days, "I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions."

After swarming Hilton's home, the news media was waiting for her arrival outside of a downtown courthouse where Sauer listened to the city attorney's complaint that the county sheriff did not have the right to reassign her to electronically monitored home detention because of an undisclosed illness.

Even though she was ordered to serve out her sentence, Hilton could still be released early.

Inmates are given a day off their terms for every four days of good behavior, and her days in home detention counted as time served.

Angry Complaints

At the beginning of the day, a Los Angeles County supervisor said he had received hundreds of e-mails from people angry that Hilton got out of jail early.

Don Knabe said it "gives the impression of celebrity justice being handed out."

In a statement, Knabe said, "This incident with Paris Hilton is just the most recent that highlights the problems our criminal justice system has with making sentences stick, whether it is in a county jail or under electronic monitoring."

Sauer issued his order after the city attorney filed a petition late Thursday afternoon demanding to show cause why Sheriff Lee Baca should not be held in contempt of court for releasing Hilton early and demanding that she be held in custody.

Hilton had served just three days of a 45-day sentence for a probation violation.

She was fitted with a monitoring bracelet at 2 a.m. Thursday and ordered to serve the rest of the time under house arrest at her posh Hollywood Hills home, meaning she could not leave the residence until next month.

Baca said she was released because of an undisclosed medical condition. Baca said, "Punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice."

Hilton reported to jail in Lynwood, south of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday night after attending the MTV Movie Awards.

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