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LAURYN HILL BEGINS 3-MONTH PRISON SENTENCE

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Former
Fugees singer Lauryn Hill has begun a three-month prison sentence for tax
evasion at a minimum security prison in Danbury, Connecticut.
The 38-year-old mother of six was booked into the Federal Correctional Institution, where she will reside
with the general population for the next several weeks.
Ed Ross, a spokesman for the US Federal Bureau of
Prisons, confirmed to the Associated Press that the rapper had joined inmates
at Danbury on 8th of July.
Hill will be expected to work in the kitchen and
gardens, and sleep in a dormitory.
After release, Hill will be under parole
supervision for a year, with the first three months to be spent confined to her
home.
Lauryn was sentenced in May for failing to pay tax
on $1.8m (£1.2m) of her earnings between 2005 and 2007.
She pleaded guilty to the charges but fought the
sentencing, asking for leniency on the grounds of her charity work and her
estrangement from the music industry.


Nevertheless, Hill’s potential one-year sentence
was cut to three months after she paid $970,000 in unpaid taxes.
In a blogpost last week, Hill blamed America’s systemic racism for exacerbating her
problems. “Why would a system, well intentioned, wait until breakdown or
incarceration to consider rehabilitation, after generations of institutionally
inflicted trauma and abuse on a people?” she wrote.
While she’s away Hill’s ex, and father of five of
her six children, Rohan Marley has offered to take care of the children. He
will switch off custody between himself and the woman’s family.
Doing time over taxes places the rapper/singer
hybrid alongside a growing list of her musical colleagues who have served time
for the same offence.

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