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Paris Hilton 'improves prison conditions'

Paris Hilton's fellow inmates are celebrating her returns to the women's jail where she was originally detained, saying the heiress's presence has apparently prompted prison staff to shower them with extra rations.

The 26-year-old hotel heiress was transferred from the medical ward at Los Angeles' Twin Towers jail after fives days of observation when staff determined she was “stable”.

Paris Hilton is now serving the remainder of her sentence for violating her probation for a drink driving offence at Lynwood jail, California.

Several inmates at Lynwood told reporters that prison guards were treating them to extra shampoo, blankets and biscuits amid fears they could be accused of giving the reality television star special treatment.

"Since she was here last week, they started giving us double bologna, double apple juices. Two blankets instead of one - and a sheet, too! Everyone has cookies coming out of their pockets,” Rosemary Gibbons, 35, who was released from the jail on Thursday, told the New York Daily News.

"Now we feel like we are in the Hilton Hotel,” she added.

"The whole facility is benefiting from her. We all thank her,” Soraya Lopez, 35, who served a week for failing to appear in court for repeated traffic violations, told the New York Post.

“She's the talk of the jail. I'd call her 'top dog.' Everyone is thanking her because people are getting fed more and the food is being left behind longer for people to finish.”

Waynnisha Brown, 19, who was also released yesterday, agreed.

“There is extra food everywhere, and now they take you at the clinic right away if you are sick and they don't charge you. It's usually three dollars for medical, now it's free,” she told the Daily News.

Both Gibbons and Brown said they were being released early from the general section of the “very overcrowded” facility after serving only a small portion of their sentences.

According to an extensive survey of jail records, Paris Hilton, who is being held in the medical clinic, is likely to serve 80 percent more time behind bars than most offenders convicted of a similar offence.

The heiress is expected to serve 23 days of a 45-day sentence imposed for driving on a suspended license after a drink driving offence.

Paris Hilton was controversially freed after just three days in solitary confinement in the special unit of Lynwood last week by Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca because of a sudden, unspecified deterioration in her health. But a judge ordered her back to jail the next day.

Kathy Hilton, the heiress's mother, said she and her younger daughter, Nicky, found visiting Paris in jail deeply upsetting.

"It's tough. It is,” Mrs Hilton told People magazine.

“It's just one hour a week: 30 minutes on Sunday and 30 minutes on Tuesday. We talk through glass.”

She said Nicky “left in hysterics”.

"It's sad. It's like right out of the movies,” the younger Hilton said.

“The glass partition, the orange jumpsuit. Everything.”

She described her sister's sentence as unfair.

“What's annoying is all these people are going on television saying that she was drinking and driving.

"She's not in jail for DUI. That's a big misconception. She's in jail for driving on a suspended license, just like the D.A.'s wife was. ... She got a 186 dollar fine.”

Nicky Hilton was referring to an acknowledgement by Rocky Delgadillo, the Los Angeles city Attorney who argued Paris Hilton should serve a longer sentence, that his wife had only received a fine for failing to obey a traffic signal while driving with a suspended license in 2005.