Paris Hilton is seen the window of a police car as she is transported from her home to court by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in Los Angeles on Friday, June 8, 2007.(Photo: thebeijingnews) Photo Gallery>>>

    LOS ANGELES, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood celebrity and socialite Paris Hilton is in police custody again on Sunday only three days after she was released from jail.

    She is getting psychiatric attention at an undisclosed location, according to police.

    It remains unclear how long she will stay in custody. Before yesterday, she was to have served 23 days under state guidelines that essentially cut sentences in half for good behavior.

    The 26-year-old normally unflappable socialite let out an anguished cry for her mother as bailiffs took her away yesterday at the end of a hearing that left the judge fuming at sheriff's deputies for letting the heir to Hilton hotels out of jail after serving barely three days of a 45-day sentence.

    Los Angeles Police Sheriff Lee Baca denied that he showed her any favoritism and noted that, under his early release program for nonviolent inmates, that Hilton would have done only about 10 percent of her sentence anyway.

    Lee Baca said jailers at the lockup, where Hilton was being held by herself in a cell, told him Hilton was "not speaking coherently ... and her condition was life-threatening."

    Why her condition -- no one openly said what her problem was --was life-threatening was not disclosed.

    "My biggest concern was basically her deterioration," Baca said. "But at the same time it was a minor offense, so it made the option of home detention with an electronic bracelet much easier."

    Judge Michael Sauer, who specifically ordered that Hilton, 26, serve her full sentence and not be given home arrest or any other form of furlough, had no patience for deputies when he asked for an explanation of what was wrong with Hilton and why his orders were not followed.

    According to the celebrity Web site TMZ.com, Hilton will be in a medical ward at the Twin Towers jail downtown for the time being.

    Hilton's attorneys plan to appeal to the sentence as early as Monday.

    Bloggers posted 4,380 comments on the Los Angeles Times Web site within hours of "The Simple Life" star being sent back to jail.

    A Los Angeles Times Poll asking "is the court's decision to send Paris Hilton back to jail fair?" had received a whopping 16,657 votes as of about 6:00 a.m. local time today, with 90.8 percent saying the decision was fair and 9.2 percent saying it was not.

    Hilton was released from jail on June 6, nearly three weeks ahead of schedule.

    Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the decision to release Hilton was taken after "extensive consultation" with medical personnel, but he refused to elaborate, citing her privacy rights.

    Whitmore said jail overcrowding was not a factor and that Hilton is now the responsibility of the Los Angeles County Probation Department.

    "It is not an early release; it is a reassignment," Whitmore said.

    "Hopefully, reasonable minds make the right decision."

    The 26-year-old Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail after a judge found that she violated her probation on alcohol-related reckless-driving charges by repeatedly driving on a suspended license.

    Under state sentencing guidelines, she was expected to serve only 23 days, with the Sheriff's Department listing her release date as June 26.

    Hilton's blood-alcohol measured .08 percent, the state's threshold for drunken driving. She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of alcohol-related reckless driving, and her license was suspended.

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