LINDSAY LOHAN - LOHAN SPENDS HOUR IN JAIL

LOHAN SPENDS HOUR IN JAIL

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has spent just over an hour in jail as punishment for two drink-driving offences.

The Mean Girls star was sentenced to 24 hours behind bars as part of a plea deal reached in two driving under the influence cases.

A spokesperson for the sheriff's department said Lohan turned herself over to the police at 10:30 local time and was released an hour and 24 minutes later. The jail Lohan was held at has a policy of releasing prisoners who are seen as non-violent early, in order to ease the problem of overcrowding.

Previously celebrity heiress Nicole Ritchie served 82 minutes in an LA jail in spite of being sentenced to a four-day period in the locker under a similar early release policy.

A representative for the police department said that Lohan had cooperated with authorities and that she was fingerprinted, photographed and put into a cell.

On Monday, the 21-year-old singer and actress began working at a blood donor centre in exchange for the striking off of two days from her original four-day sentence. Lohan had already served one day of her sentence and has now completed the remaining 24 hours of her time in jail.

The starlet - who recently checked out of the Cirque Lodge rehabilitation centre in Utah after two months of treatment - is on a three-year probation period and is required to complete an 18-month alcohol education programme as part of her plea bargain.