R&B singer Bobby Brown turned himself in today to begin serving a 9-day sentence for a drunk driving conviction, the LA Times reports.

Due to jail overcrowding in California, jail officials shaved a big chunk off of his original jail sentence.

I’m not sure how 9 days in jail will deter him from driving drunk when he’s been arrested umpteen times for previous drunk driving offenses. But that’s how they do things in California, where celebrities are handled with kid gloves.