Paris Hilton leaves the Los Angeles County Correctional Facility in Lynwood, California June 26, 2007. Hotel heiress Hilton, who commanded as much attention behind bars as on the Hollywood party scene, regained her freedom on Tuesday after serving three weeks in jail for violating probation in a drunk-driving case.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

    BEIJING, June 27 -- Dealing with jail for driving offenses was difficult, but now Paris Hilton faces the aftermath.

    The 26-year-old heiress was released from a Los Angeles County women's jail on Tuesday, and will give her first post-jail TV interview to "Larry King Live" on Wednesday.

    Hilton has said in letters and phone interviews to want to change her partying ways.

    "I would like to make a difference," she told Barbara Walters. "God has given me this new chance."

    Saying it is one thing and doing it is another, said Dorian Traube, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California.

    "If this indeed has changed her, then the transition will be very difficult because she'll have to find a new purpose in life beyond being queen of the party scene," Traube said.

    So long as she doesn't break any laws, Hilton will complete her probation in March 2009. She can reduce that time by 12 months if she does community service, the city attorney's office said.

    Hilton told E! News last week that she plans to build a "transitional home" to help recently released inmates* readjust to freedom.

    "These women just keep going back to jail because they have no place to go," Hilton said. "It's a really bad cycle and if we stop it now, we can make our community a better place."

    She said she has become "much more grateful" after spending time in jail.

    "I appreciate everything now and I think there were a lot of bad people that I was around," she said. "I don't want to surround myself with those types of people anymore."

    (Shenzhen Daily/ Agencies)

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