What Lindsay Lohan Can Expect in Jail

Lindsay Lohan will soon be trading in her designer duds for a stiff cotton Los Angeles County Jail jumpsuit come her three-month sentence, likely to be served at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif.

Legal experts say she’ll likely serve between two weeks to a month due to the sheriff’s long-standing policy of releasing nonviolent offenders early due to overcrowding, presuming she’ll also get time off for good behavior. She is due to surrender to the court and begin her sentence on July 20.

Paris Hilton served 23 days of a 45-day sentence at the same jailfor violating her probation in a DUI case and was sprung early for good behavior.

“I was basically in the fetal position, basically in hysterics,” Hilton told PEOPLE at the time of her first sleepless nights in jail. As for her fellow inmates, she said, “All of the inmates were very supportive. There were girls next to me. We could talk through the vents and they were just really sweet.”

Photographed and Fingerprinted

As with all other prisoners, Lohan, 24, will be photographed, fingerprinted and searched upon entry at the facility, which currently holds about 1,800 inmates, all of them female, says L.A. sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.

After being placed in a holding area with other detainees, Lohan will eventually be assigned a 12-by-8 cell that features two bunks (with 4-inch thick foam mattresses covered in green vinyl), a toilet, sink, a stool and a small tabletop. The only glimpse of the outside world is through a narrow six-inch window.

Whitmore said that Lohan would likely be segregated from the general population “for her protection as well as the jail staff.”

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