Amber Portwood, Teen Mom Star Sentenced to Prison

Teen Mom Amber Portwood is headed to prison.

Amber Portwood, Teen Mom star, is sentenced to prison on a felony drug charge. Octomom Nadya Suleman is considering stripping for money. Rather than horrified glee when it comes to public mommy train wrecks, perhaps we should find some sympathy. And yes, even sadness.

Portwood was released from jail less than a month ago with ambitions to join the military. The MTV starlet was placed behind bars after violating her probation and skipping out on a mandatory drug appointment.
Now, the 22-year old has been ordered to five years in prison after asking an Indiana judge to go back on her sentence, TMZ reports. Previously, when Portwood was arrested in December for drug possession, she was offered jail time or to enter a drug rehab center, Portwood requested jail time over scheduled drug rehab appointments and thus will remain incarcerated for the remainder of her sentence.
Her lawyer reportedly asked the judge for leniency, but the judge was not moved by her lack of desire to help herself.
Portwood is headed to the Indiana Department of Corrections therapeutic community program, a treatment program in which the Teen Mom will have to stay in and will receive “time served” provided she remains in the facility on ‘good behavior.’
Her brother Shawn tells E!News, “the system failed her, and that's all I can say…She does not deserve to be [in jail] or anything that has happened to her. Adding, "She is there because of who she is."

Amber Portwood, the Teen Mom star, was sentenced to prison on a drug charge. drug Troubled moms, elevated to celebrity – like Octomom Nadya Suleman (pictured here in May 2012) who is considering stripping for money – have become parodies of our greatest social problems.

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