Former "Lost" star Michelle Rodriguez has found its way out of prison.
Rodriguez was released from a Los Angeles County women serving prison Wednesday after 18 days of a 180-day sentence for violating probation in a drunk driving case.
She was released early as part of a programme which deals with the overcrowding in prison inmates nonviolent can serve as little as 10 percent of their sentences.
The same thing happened two years ago when Rodriguez served a single day of 60-day suspended jail sentence for violating probation.
No fewer than 50 women per day are released early, the spokesman for the sheriff said Steve Whitmore.
"She was treated in the same way we do with all other women because of the extent of overcrowding," he said.
Rodriguez was sentenced in October for failing to prove that it had done community service and drinking alcohol while wearing a monitoring device.
The judge who sentenced Rodriguez ordered her to serve the entire sentence. The judge has been consulted about the early release but the Sheriff's Department had the last word at the prison security was at stake, said Whitmore.
"The sheriff contends, of course, a desire for prisoners serving their sentences, but the county has only one women's prison, and it is" bursting at the seams, "said Whitmore .
Rodriguez was on probation after pleading no contest to drunk driving, escape and conduct of a suspended license in connection with two incidents in 2003 Hollywood.
While he was still on probation, she spent five days in a prison in Hawaii in 2005, after pleading guilty to drink driving, which led to a day in jail in Los Angeles for violation of probation.
Rodriguez appeared in a season of ABC "Lost". His film credits include "The Fast and Furious'," "Blue Crush" and "Girlfight."
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