Thursday, 14 June 2007

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Paris Hilton transferred out of medical ward

She's on the mend and wants to get on with it...

Paris Hilton was transferred out of the medical ward at L.A.'s Twin Towers Correctional Facility Wednesday night.

The heiress, 26, was returned to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Calif., around 11 p.m., Lt. Daryl Meeks tells the Associated Press.

The facility is the same place Hilton began her sentence on June 3.

Meeks would not elaborate on where she is being housed, but during her initial stay she was confined to a 12-by-8-foot cell in the so-called "high power" pod, reserved for high-profile inmates and those who need extra protection.

Thursday marks the beginning of the twelfth day of Hilton's 45-day sentence for violating probation, although she is expected to serve just 23 days because of a policy that offers credits for good behavior.

Hilton became the center of a storm of controversy after she was reassigned to house arrest due to an undisclosed medical condition (she was soon ordered back to jail and sent to the Twin Towers' medical unit).

Although Sheriff Lee Baca told reporters Hilton was sufferering "various psychological and psychiatric issues," their exact nature was not specified. But a source tells PEOPLE Hilton has attention deficit disorder, and a family friend says Hilton experienced claustrophobia in her jail cell, adding that during her 74 hours in county lockup, "She practically had a nervous breakdown."

Whatever treatment she was receiving at Twin Towers appeared to be agreeing with her: She told Barbara Walters by phone Sunday night that she had become more spiritual, and her mother said she was starting to get her appetite back. "She was very happy," Kathy Hilton told reporters after a visit on Tuesday. "She wants to just do her time and get on with it."

But Hilton's stay in Twin Towers was not without its own minor scandals: Both her parents and her sister Nicky were accused of line-jumping when they visited her this week.