Lauryn Hill Released From Prison, Begins 'Home Confinement' for Tax Evasion
Lauryn Hill was released from Federal prison on Friday, after serving a three month sentence for tax evasion.
The former Fugees singer, 38, was reportedly released early from the minimum security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut in part due to good behavior. Hill was sentenced in July after pleading guilty to three counts of tax evasion, after it was claimed that she willfully failed to file income tax returns on $1.8 million she earned from 2005 to 2007, according to Yahoo.
"Ms. Hill was released today from federal prison after serving her sentence," Hill's attorney, Nathan Hochman, wrote in an email obtained by Yahoo. "She was released several days early based on a number of factors the Bureau of Prisons takes into consideration, including good behavior. She will now start today a one-year period of probation with three months of home confinement during that year."
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Prior to her sentencing, Hill likened her legal woes to slavery while speaking directly to the judge. In the past, the Grammy award-winning singer has been vocal about her controversial political views.
"I was put into a system I didn't know the nature of. ... I'm a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me," Hill said, according to TMZ.com.
"I sold 50 million units ... now I'm up here paying a tax debt. If that's not likened to slavery, I don't know what is," she added.
The singer first rose to fame in the mid nineties when she became a lead member of the highly successfully music group "The Fugees" with Wyclef Jean.
Hill has five children with Rohan Marley, who is the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, and a son with another man.
