Wailing "Mom, Mom, it's not right," Hilton was taken away from the courtroom by sheriff's deputies after a hearing called by Los Angeles city prosecutors demanding that she be returned to jail to serve out the remainder of her sentence.
Hilton, 26, had been transferred from jail to house arrest on Thursday for unspecified medical reasons after serving only three days of her 23-day sentence.
She was given a jail term after being caught driving her Bentley without a valid licence, a violation of her probation for a prior drunken-driving offense.
Thursday's decision to let her serve the sentence at home because of a medical complaint caused national outrage and accusations of favourable treatment.
