July 9, 2013

Lauryn Hill Begins Prison Sentence for Tax Evasion

Lauryn Hill checked into prison on Monday to serve her three month sentence for tax evasion. The 38-year-old songstress reportedly booked into the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut at around 11:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, according to TMZ. The facility is said to be ‘minimum security’. Jailed: Fugees frontwoman Lauryn Hill has checked into prison in Connecticut to serve her three month sentence for Tax evasion Prisoners live in ‘barrack-style housing’ and Hill will be part of the general population rather than be housed in isolation. Hill’s trip to prison comes after she was sentenced back in May. During her day in Federal court, Lauren compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade. Not isolated: Hill will be amongst the general population in the minimum security prison. ‘I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them,’ Hill said before U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo. ‘I had an economic system imposed on me.’ Hill, who started singing with the Fugees as a teenager in the 1990s before releasing her multiplatinum 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, pleaded guilty last year to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. The sentencing also took into account unpaid state and federal taxes in 2008 and 2009 that brought the total earnings to about $2.3 million. Despite having paid more than $900,000 in the several days during her court appearances, Hill still owed interest and penalties, the U.S. attorney’s office had said.