'Teen Mom's' Amber Portwood Checks Into Prison For Five Year Sentence

"Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood has checked into prison to start her five year sentence. Portwood was transferred from a local facility in Indiana to the Rockwell Correctional Facility at 7:45 a.m. Thursday morning.

Portwood was originally required to enter into rehab for substance abuse and anger management and perform community service for her probation. If she violated the probation, she would be sent to prison for five years. However, while in rehab, Portwood tried to commit suicide again by taking an overdose of pills.

"I had taken 30 Suboxone within 3 days," Portwood said. "The depression took over. I would take four or five at a time."

The first time was when Portwood tried to hang herself in her garage.

After the second suicide attempt, Portwood requested that the judge send her to prison to serve out the five year sentence. Portwood told the courts that she would be able to focus more on recovery and that she was so depressed in rehab and that is why she tried to OD.

Amber will serve her time in Indiana Department of Corrections therapeutic community program, an incarceration-based treatment program.

"I felt like I'd rather do my time and get it over with, and make the best of a situation that's been handed to me," Portwood said. "I'm not just going to sit. I'm going to do substance abuse classes. I'm going to get my GED."