Lauryn Hill Released From Prison After Three Months

Lauryn Hill was released from federal prison, TMZ reported Friday.

The site said that the ex-Fugee singer was released early Friday morning from the minimum security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. She served a three month sentence for tax evasion. The 38-year-old Grammy winner began her sentence July 8. She had failed to pay more than $1.8 million in income she earned between 2005 and 2007. Hill paid a large portion of the money at the last minute, but the judge was not inclined to spare Hill from time behind bars when she was sentenced in May.

Hill lashed out at her sentence in an online post in June. She lamented racism, slavery and the IRS. She believed all contributed to her circumstances.

"In order to justify reverse racism one would have to first create an even playing field, undo the generations of torture, terror, and brutality, and then judge whether or not a non-white person is in fact a racist. This approach would require people to examine the need/addiction to feel superior to someone else for no justifiable reason, and the myriad policies: Spiritual, political and social, that it bore. True dominion is self evident and not the result of sabotaging another in order to achieve it. That would be an illegitimate as well as a fleeting position. The Universe, will eventually seek to right/balance itself," Hill wrote at the time.