Elizabeth Bancroft, an Epidemiologist for The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health told Inside Edition, "MRSA is a kind of staph infection that means it's resistant to the first line of antibiotics we usually use to treat staph infection… That is the kind that is so prevalent right now or so common in the jail."

Bancroft points out several reasons why incidents of infection are so high, "At this time it's impossible to eradicate staph because it's spread person to person. It can be asymptomatic and there is no vaccine.

"If the infection were to get to the blood or bone the first thing people would have would be fever chills and if it got into the bone they would have a lot of tenderness."

Bancroft's advice for Paris includes, "Maintaining good hygiene, wash hands, and change clothes when laundry services come around." In other words, grab a florescent orange jumpsuit from the middle to ensure no one's grubby hands have contaminated it.

Luckily for Paris, the fact that she's serving her sentence separated from the general population puts her at a much lower risk of contracting any related illness.

By EMMIS RODRIGUEZ