July 8, 2010 1:32PM 

# Lindsay Lohan Gets 90 Day Jail Sentence 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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Yesterday, actress Lindsay Lohan received a [90 day jail sentence](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/08/AR2010070801001_pf.html) after a judge determined Lohan had violated her probation by missing some scheduled classes. Lohan had been previously arrested on a DUI charge. Today, Lohan [quotes](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/lohan_takes_it_to_the_tweet_in_whiny_9wOlP1qddd9SP2c6sAF0XM) from a [Cato article](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4165) that critiques the American criminal justice system for its rigid and mechanical sentencing rules. (Here are her Cato-quoting Tweets: [1](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/17988692905), [2](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/17988710448), [3](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/17988743023), [4](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/17988745827).) I have received letters from prisoners around the country who have read a Cato publication, or seen a Cato event on C‑SPAN, but this is our first celebrity tweet. The Institute is now abuzz!

I wish more celebrities would take an interest in our legal system because there is so much [injustice](http://store.cato.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441418) to be found there. Alas, when celebs speak out *after* they have been personally caught up in the system, their calls for reform come across as self-serving — even when they are sincere. I wish more Hollywood writers would work criminal justice issues into their scripts. For example, why not write a popular character out of a show because of an arrest and a [mandatory minimum sentence](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/joey.html)? In any event, we wish Ms. Lohan well and hope this is her final encounter with the criminal system.

For more Cato work on sentencing, go [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1317). For more on criminal justice generally, go [here](https://www.cato.org/criminal-justice-law-enforcement).

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