MOVIES - Aug. 13, 1987

Los Angeles County supervisors are asking why Sean Penn was allowed to skip 60 days of stir in the crowded L. A. County Jail (for violation of his probation) and instead be shipped to a sleepy lockup in rural Northern California. “A lot of people in my district spend time in the county jail,” Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said Tuesday. “I don’t think there’s equal justice under the law if the rich can be treated differently than the poor.” Penn has been paying $80 a day to spend his time in Mono County, Hahn added. Penn currently is filming a movie in West Germany, but will go back behind some kind of bars at the end of this month.