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Ja Rule has been released from an upstate New York prison. However, the rapper may not be celebrating his release just yet, as he is heading straight into federal custody.

The platinum-selling rapper had served most of his two-year sentence at the Mid-State Correctional Facility for an illegal gun possession charge. However, he still has some time remaining on a 28-month prison sentence stemming from a federal tax evasion charge, reports CBS News.

His sentences reportedly ran concurrently, so Ja Rule will have to serve about another six months in federal lockup.

Controversial anti-Muslim filmmaker Mark Bassely Youssef has agreed to a plea deal to spend one year in prison.

Youssef, who also goes by several aliases, earlier made headlines when a clip of his Internet film "Innocence of Muslims" was blamed for sparking violence across the Middle East. Youssef and many of the actors in the film received death threats and other blowback from the film, reports The Associated Press.

Youssef was accused of not being truthful with the actors over the message of the movie, and for changing the actors' dialogue without their consent. However, Youssef will not be going to prison because of the movie. Instead, he'll spend the next year behind bars for unrelated probation violations.

Lindsay Lohan could be headed to jail, as it appears the actress will be charged with lying to police following a car accident earlier this year, reports gossip website TMZ.

Lohan was accused of driving her Porsche into the back of an 18-wheel truck in Santa Monica, Calif., in June. However, the 26-year-old actress allegedly lied to police and told them that her assistant was behind the wheel at the time, and not her. Her assistant contradicted the story and identified Lohan as the driver.

Lying to police is considered a misdemeanor offense, for which a person typically does not face prison time. However, because the "Mean Girls" star was already currently on probation for a necklace theft, she could be sent away if convicted of her most recent alleged crime.

The Innocence of Muslims director, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, faces up to three years in prison after being arrested for alleged probation violations.

Judge Suzanne Segal ordered Nakoula detained citing a "lengthy pattern of deception," reports the Los Angeles Times. Nakoula had been in hiding before his arrest, due to death threats related to his anti-Muslim movie.

The director was convicted of bank fraud in 2010 and was on supervised release. He is now charged with eight counts of probation violation including making false statements to authorities about his role in making the controversial movie and unapproved use of aliases, reports the Times.

George Boedecker, founder of Crocs shoes, was arrested for a DUI after he was allegedly found passed out in his Porsche.

When confronted by Colorado police, Boedecker bristled and said that he wasn't the one driving the car. When asked who was driving, the allegedly intoxicated entrepreneur said his "girlfriend," whom he identified as pop singer Taylor Swift, was the one behind the wheel.

Boedecker reportedly gestured to a nearby yard and said Swift was hiding out there, reports the New York Daily News. Not surprisingly, the 22-year-old singer was nowhere to be found.

Life imitating art. Or art imitating life? Ex-Hot Boys rapper B.G. was sentenced to 14 years in prison for weapons possession and witness tampering charges.

Prosecutors also tried to link the former Cash Money rapper to two notorious local criminals. The link was allegedly provided by B.G. himself, in his own rap lyrics.

Dr. Conrad Murray is finding out that jail is no picnic and he's asked Judge Michael Pastor to transfer him out of Los Angeles County jail.

Murray was Michael Jackson's physician at the time of Jackson's death in 2009. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death and sentenced to four years behind bars. Murray has served less than a year since the sentencing in November 2011, but he says he can't handle the conditions in jail.

Murray isn't the only celebrity complaining about jail conditions. Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained earlier this month about the conditions in Clark County jail in Las Vegas.

Unlike Mayweather, Murray isn't asking to serve his sentence out under house arrest - he wants the judge to send him to prison.

Rapper Mystikal just checked into a Louisiana jail to serve out the remainder of his 90-day sentence, TMZ reports. The punishment stemmed from a domestic violence charge back in February.

Mystikal (real name Michael Tyler) was arrested in Baton Rouge for domestic abuse. It's remains unclear what actions led to his arrest, but a judge ruled that it was enough to violate his probation.

Yes, the singer of hits as "Shake Ya Ass" and "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" was on 5-years probation at the time. But why was he on probation to begin with?

Teen Mom Amber Portwood lied. Shocker. Or not.

The reality star will be spending this Mother's Day behind bars, apparently for violating the terms of her drug court program. She was placed in the diversionary program in February in lieu of serving a jail term.

Now gossip website TMZ reports she lied to her case worker about having a medical condition so she could skip her obligatory weekly appointments.

For Amber Portwood, a rehab sentence is likely preferable to spending years in jail. The Teen Mom was originally sentenced to lengthy five-year prison term.

She received three years for a drug violation and two years for a probation violation, according to the Long Island Press.

Portwood is currently in custody. The reality TV star has been in jail in Indiana since last month. She entered a plea deal with prosecutors to spending time in a rehab facility instead of a jail cell.