Generally when famous people are charged with crimes like tax evasion, the actual prison sentences don't often come to pass. Lauryn Hill is one of the exceptions. Today, TMZ reports, she's checked in to a federal correction center in Danbury, Connecticut to begin the three-month sentence she was handed in May for failing to pay taxes on about $1.8 million in earnings.

TMZ says that the facility is a "minimum security type facility" and that she'll be among the general population, not in isolation. The sentencing comes in spite of the deal Hill signed with Sony earlier this year that was aimed to help ease her financial troubles and keep her out of jail.

As her legal troubles intensified in recent months, Hill took to Tumblr to write at length on her experiences and her feelings about racism and corruption in America.

Below, listen to "Neurotic Society", the song that came from Hill's recent Sony deal: