Lauryn Hill has tried to remain positive about her current incarceration. The 38-year-old singer has been serving a three-month sentence in the minimum security Federal Correctional Institution of Danbury in Connecticut after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Hill recently posted a message on her Tumblr page acknowledging some of the positive aspects of her situation. 'I have known since very young to look for the purpose and lesson in everything, including the trials,' Hill wrote.
'Although it has taken some adjustment, I cannot deny the favor I have encountered while in here, and general warm reception from a community of people who despite their circumstances, have found unique ways to make the best of them,' she continued. The Fugees frontwoman also thanked her supporters for the 'letters of concern and well wishes that I receive in the mail every day.'
'Although I may not be able to write everyone back, please know that they have been received, read, acknowledged, and appreciated,' she wrote. Hill was sentenced in May to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. She began serving her sentence in early July after pleading guilty last year to tax evasion.
After she has served her prison time, Hill will be on parole for a year with the first three months under house arrest. Hill pleaded guilty and had her initial sentence of one year in prison reduced after she asked for leniency due to her charity work and estrangement from the music industry. Hill started singing with The Fugees as a teenager in the 1990s before releasing her multiplatinum 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Despite paying more than $900,000 in back taxes in the days before her sentencing, Hill still owed interest and penalties to the US government.
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