Stars Behind Bars

Kiefer Sutherland — AP Photo/Glendale Police Dept.

The star of the TV drama "24" began serving a 48-day sentence for drunken driving on Dec. 5, 2007, at the Glendale, Calif., city jail shortly after he was sentenced. He was released early Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. He pleaded no contest in October to driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08. He was required to serve all 48 days of his sentence. It was his second drunken-driving arrest in three years.

Gary Collins

Actor Gary Collins, shown in his booking photo after checking into jail on Jan. 14, 2008, to serve a four-day sentence in his drunken driving case in Glendale, Calif. He was released just after 6 a.m., on Jan. 18. The 69-year-old actor paid an unspecified daily fee to stay in the Glendale City Jail instead of the overcrowded L.A. County Jail, according to the sheriff's dept.

O.J. Simpson

Simpson is seen in a Jan. 11, 2008, booking photo. He returned to a Las Vegas jail, where he will spend several days before a judge hears allegations that he violated terms of his bail in an armed robbery case. Simpson is being isolated from the other 3,300 inmates until a court hearing, when the D.A. plans to ask that Simpson's bail be revoked and he be kept in jail until trial.

Michelle Rodriquez

Former "Lost" star Michelle Rodriquez was released from a Los Angeles County women's jail in Lynwood on Jan. 9, 2008, after serving 18 days of a 180-day sentence for violating probation in a drunken driving case. Two years ago, she served just one day of a 60-day jail sentence for probation violation. Here she stands in Hawaii's Kaneohe District Court on April 25, 2006, where she pleaded guilty to a single count of DUI.

Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie served just 82 minutes of a 90-hour jail sentence for driving under the influence of drugs on Aug. 23, 2007. The reality television star was arrested on Dec. 12, 2006, on charges of driving under the influence after she drove the wrong way down the off ramp of a freeway near Glendale, Calif.

Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown, whose birth name is Inga Marchand, was all smiles as she entered Manhattan criminal court, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007, in New York. The hip-hop singer was ordered to appear in court for violating her parole agreement. Following her hearing she was taken into custody for violating terms of her parole.

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton awaits her release from the Lynwood Correctional Center on June 26, 2007. She served 23 days of a 45-day sentence for violating probation in a September 2006 alcohol-related driving incident.

Tom Sizemore

In June 2007, Tom Sizemore was ordered to serve about nine months in state prison on drug-related charges, getting a reduced sentence for time already spent in jail and in two live-in drug programs. The actor has appeared in films including "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down."

Bobby Brown

In February 2007, Bobby Brown spent three nights in a county jail in Norfolk, Massachusetts before paying $19,000 in court fees and late child support due to the mother of his two teenage children. The rap artist was arrested while watching his daughter's cheerleading competition at Attleboro High School.

Lil' Kim

Style For A Date With The Judge — Getty Images/Paul Hawthorne

Rapper Lil' Kim arrives for her sentencing in New York on July 6, 2005. The performer, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, served nearly 10 months of a year-and-a-day prison sentence for lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 gunfight outside of a radio station.

Martha Stewart

On July 16, 2004, domestic diva Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement and two years' probation for lying to investigators about an ImClone stock trade. Stewart reported to the minimum-security women's prison camp at Alderson, W.Va., on Oct. 8, 2004, and was released March 4, 2005.

Lillo Brancato Jr.

The former "Sopranos" and "A Bronx Tale" actor and a co-defendant are awaiting trial at Riker's Island in the December 2005 shooting of Officer Daniel Enchautegui, who was fatally shot while off-duty in the Bronx during a break-in.

Robert Blake

On March 16, 2005, a Los Angeles jury acquitted Robert Blake on all counts in his trial for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake was a child actor in the "Our Gang" series and a hard-boiled cop in the 1970s TV show "Baretta." A year after his trial, he was hoping to resume work: "I want to go act. I want to go teach. I want to dance," he told an interviewer.

Robert Downey Jr.

Actor Robert Downey Jr. sits in a Malibu, Calif., courtroom Dec. 8, 1997, before being sentenced to six months in jail for violating parole on a prior drug conviction. Downey's probation was revoked Oct. 17 when his drug counselor told authorities that the actor violated a court order by using drugs and alcohol in September. In 1999, he served one year in prison for cocaine possession.

Christian Slater

Drunk and high on heroin in August 1997, Christian Slater punched his girlfriend in the face, bit a man and then attacked a police officer. He was sentenced to three months in prison and served 59 days before being released for good behavior.

O.J. Simpson

On a memorable day in court, O.J. Simpson grimaced as he pulled on a glove prosecutors say he wore the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered. Simpson was acquitted of murder in the 1994 killings but later was found liable in civil court action. The one-time football great and rental car company spokesman now lives in Miami.

Kelsey Grammer

Following a 1988 conviction for possession of cocaine, the "Cheers" star was put on 90 days house arrest, and then served 30 days in jail in 1991 after violating parole conditions.

Robert Mitchum

On Sept. 1, 1948, Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds were arrested for possession of marijuana, the result of a sting designed to capture other Hollywood partiers. Mitchum spent 60 days at a Castaic, Calif., prison farm. The arrest became the inspiration for the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," which starred Leeds.