Paris Hilton released early from jail based on “medical considerations”

As detailed in this CNN article, “Paris Hilton was let out of jail Thursday morning, days after she began serving what was to have been a 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.”  Here are more specifics:

Hilton must wear a monitoring bracelet and remain at her home for another 40 days, said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.  Medical considerations “played a part” in the decision to offer Hilton home confinement for the remainder of her sentence, Whitmore said.

He said privacy rules prohibited him from giving details about the medical issues, but celebrity Web site TMZ.com earlier quoted sources saying Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.

Whitmore said that after “extensive consultation with medical personnel” it was decided to offer Hilton “reassignment” to home confinement, which she and her attorneys accepted.

The questions this news prompts are nearly endless:

• Was Paris on a hunger strike or did prison official misunderstand her usual diet?
• Was Paris’s health truly  at risk and what does this suggest about the local jail conditions?
• Will Paris have as much fun with home confinement as Martha Stewart did? 
• Might future prisoner hunger strikes be termed “going to Paris”?
• Are Scooter Libby’s lawyers taking notes on this ingenious sentence reduction strategy?