Lindsay Lohan will not be freed from jail this week, contrary to reports.

The actress is currently serving a 90-day sentence after she violated the probation from her 2007 conviction for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). She had been ordered to attend alcohol education classes, but didn’t go to enough.

After her spell inside, Lindsay will have to check into a rehab facility for 90 days under the terms of her new court order.

It has been widely reported the star will not serve her full term at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, due to overcrowding. When she started her sentence last week it was claimed she would be incarcerated for around two weeks, but it has been rumoured she could be out even earlier.

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore has now denied the claims. “Nothing has changed,” he told E! News.

“When she was incarcerated I said a couple of weeks and it hasn’t been a couple of weeks. That turns out to be the first part of next week. It could be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, something like that.”

Not long before his statement, Lindsay’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley had expressed her hope the star would be free by the weekend.

Shawn has visited Lindsay in prison several times, and says she is finding it tough. The 24-year-old was not allowed visits from her family over the weekend, which Shawn said she struggled to cope with.

“I have my fingers crossed and Lindsay does too,” Shawn said, referring to plans to get Lindsay out by the weekend.

Shawn added reports Lindsay has been wailing hysterically and been subjected to teasing by her fellow inmates are untrue. She said the star and the other prisoners have a “mutual respect” for each other.

Source: stuff.co.nz