LOS ANGELES (AP) — Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted from a courtroom and ordered back to jail yesterday after a judge, overruling the county sheriff, said she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.“It’s not right!” shouted Hilton, who violated her probation in a reckless driving case. “Mom!” she called out to her mother in the audience.

Earlier yesterday, the 26-year-old hotel heiress was taken handcuffed from her home in a black-and-white police car, paparazzi sprinting in pursuit and helicopters broadcasting live from above. She entered the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, without makeup, wearing a fuzzy grey sweat shirt over slacks.

She cried throughout the hearing, dabbing her eyes, and her body shook constantly. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed: “I love you.”

Despite being ordered to serve the remainder of her original 45-day sentence, Hilton could still be released early. Inmates are given a day off their terms for every four days of good behaviour, and her days in home detention counted as time served.

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by the decision by Sheriff Lee Baca — who oversees the county jails — to release Hilton three days into her sentence due to an unspecified “medical condition”.

“I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions,” Sauer said. “At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home.”

Hilton’s release, and the decision to allow her to serve the time at her Hollywood Hills home, angered some local and state authorities and civil rights leaders who argued it could interpreted as affording the socialite favors not available to other, less famous, inmates.

Many of Hilton’s several dozen supporters outside the courthouse appeared devastated.

“No! No! No!” screamed Jake Byrd as a court spokesman delivered the news to reporters outside court.