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08.03.09, 08:28
PHOENIX (AP)—Former NBA star Charles Barkley began serving a three-day jail sentence Saturday for a drunken-driving charge.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Barkley already had been acting like a “model inmate,” even chatting with others at Tent City, where inmates are housed in tents rather than traditional jail cells.
Barkley has a private tent, but is close enough to other inmates to talk, Arpaio said.
Barkley, a TNT studio analyst, will spend all of Saturday in custody, but will be given work release from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. He will get work release at 8 a.m. Monday and will not have to return to the tents at 8 p.m.
That’s a total of 36 hours in jail.
Arpaio said Barkley is not being given special treatment and has a separate tent for his own safety. Meals will be brought to him.
“I didn’t have to put him in the tents. I could have put him in a cell all by himself—that would be special,” he said. “He’s just lucky it’s not the summer. It’s 130 degrees in the summer.”
Charles Barkley begins serving time on DUI charges (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AqzYCOA666AcszBrUSrzJIG8vLYF?slug=ap-barkley-jail&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Barkley already had been acting like a “model inmate,” even chatting with others at Tent City, where inmates are housed in tents rather than traditional jail cells.
Barkley has a private tent, but is close enough to other inmates to talk, Arpaio said.
Barkley, a TNT studio analyst, will spend all of Saturday in custody, but will be given work release from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. He will get work release at 8 a.m. Monday and will not have to return to the tents at 8 p.m.
That’s a total of 36 hours in jail.
Arpaio said Barkley is not being given special treatment and has a separate tent for his own safety. Meals will be brought to him.
“I didn’t have to put him in the tents. I could have put him in a cell all by himself—that would be special,” he said. “He’s just lucky it’s not the summer. It’s 130 degrees in the summer.”
Charles Barkley begins serving time on DUI charges (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AqzYCOA666AcszBrUSrzJIG8vLYF?slug=ap-barkley-jail&prov=ap&type=lgns)