Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- Lindsay Lohan got a temporary reprieve from a 120-day jail term for violating probation Friday , but the actress must immediately start court-ordered community service that should keep her busy for months . Lohan released from jail . While Lohan recently traveled to New York to discuss acting roles , including in the upcoming `` Gotti '' film , her next year could be spent in Los Angeles working on Skid Row , in court and behind bars . Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced Lohan to jail and community service after deciding Friday that Lohan violated her probation when she was charged with stealing a necklace from a jewelry store in January . It 's the latest punishment for Lohan in a four-year-long legal saga that started with two drunk driving convictions in 2007 , followed by three judges ordering her to jail for probation violations in the past year . Unlike last September , when Lohan 's entry into drug rehab convinced another judge not to enforce a jail sentence for a failed drug test , a rehab stint does not appear to be an alternative this time . Lohan has spent a total of eight months in rehab programs since the start of 2007 for treatment of a self-admitted substance abuse problem . Sautner made it clear she thought Lohan did not respect the previous judges who sent her to jail twice last year . `` She thumbs her nose at the court , '' Sautner said , referring to an incident last July that was caught by a courtroom camera . `` She walks into court with ' F U ' on her fingernails . I do n't know what that means unless it has ' I am ' before it . '' It would take Lohan three months of working five days a week , eight hours a day to complete the 480 hours community service Sautner ordered Friday , along with the four-month jail sentence . Her first job will be for 360 hours at the Downtown Women 's Center on Skid Row in Los Angeles . Sautner suggested Lohan might behave better after seeing `` how truly needy women and women who have fallen on real hard times have to live . '' Lohan must then work 120 hours at the Los Angeles County morgue , an assignment other drunk driving probationers have served . She still has a June 3 trial date for the necklace theft charge . The judge said she would `` give her an opportunity '' by reducing the felony to a misdemeanor . The opportunity may be for Lohan to accept a plea deal , something she rejected last month when she demanded a trial by jury . At the time , defense attorney Shawn Holley said she `` has a strong defense and we are confident that a jury will listen to the evidence fairly and acquit her . '' Sautner was unimpressed with the defense presented at Friday 's preliminary hearing . It centered on Holley arguing that Lohan was `` doing a million different things , '' including texting , when she walked out of the jewelry store with the gold and diamond necklace she had tried on 20 minutes earlier . Lohan was `` more scattered than crafty , '' Holley told the judge . The RidicuList : Lindsay Lohan . `` It 's undisputed that Ms. Lohan walked out of the store with the necklace on , '' Holley said . The prosecution must show she had `` specific intent to permanently deprive the store of that necklace . '' Holley conceded that Lohan `` did not rush to return the necklace , '' but she said it just `` makes her not a very considerate or courteous person , '' but not a thief . Sautner did not buy the defense argument . `` If in fact it was an accident , she could have called the store back , '' Sautner said . Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers called it a `` classic garden variety theft . '' There was no mention Friday of the defense theory floated before the hearing that Lohan believed the store owner was loaning the necklace to her because she was a celebrity . Lohan 's Friday ended with her posing for her fifth mugshot at Los Angeles County 's Lynwood Correctional Facility , where she 's been several times before . She was out after five hours when she posted the $ 75,000 bond set by Sautner . She can stay out of jail while Holley appeals the probation violation decision , but Sautner ordered her to immediately begin the community service work at the women 's center .
Lohan must start work at Los Angeles ' Jewish Women 's Center . Her community service also includes several weeks at the morgue . The singer stays out of jail while her lawyer appeals the 120-day sentence . Lohan still faces trial for the necklace theft in California .