Lindsay Lohan was freed from Lynwood Correctional Facility at 9:21 p.m. Friday night after posting $75,000 bail. The actress was sentenced earlier in the day to 120 days in jail for violating her probation by taking a necklace from a jewelry store.
Judge Stephanie Sautner felt that when Lohan walked out of the store wearing the necklace, she showed intent to keep it.
"I see the intent here," Sautner said. "I see a level of brazenness with, 'Let me see what I can get away with here.'"
But the judge reduced the felony grand theft to a misdemeanor level, saying, "I'm going to give her an opportunity," reports AP.
She also said she hoped to give the Mean Girls star a dose of perspective by sentencing her to almost 500 hours of community service, including time at the county morgue and 300 hours at a women's shelter.
It is unclear what effect the sentence may have on Lohan's next acting role. Producers of the film Gotti: Three Generations announced on Wednesday that Lohan had been cast to play the wife of John Gotti Jr. in the film.
Lohan did not visibly react to the sentence, reports AP. She cried earlier in the day when her lawyer, Shawn Holley told Sautner that Lohan had been punished enough, and recounted the treatment programs the actress has completed since her first arrest for drunken driving in 2007.
Her father, Michael Lohan, put his hands over his face at times Friday and bolted from the courtroom after his daughter was led away by sheriff's personnel.
It was the fourth time Lohan has been sentenced to jail, although three trips amounted to a few hours. Last summer, she spent 14 days in jail on a 90 day sentence.
Sautner set a trial date on the misdemeanor charge for June 3 and a pre-trial date for May 11.
