He was there to support his daughter in the court room yesterday, and now Michael Lohan has written a letter to Judge Revel asking her to reconsider jail time and replace it with another three months in a treatment program.

He tells Larry King:

Any time in jail is harsh, especially for a young lady like Lindsay that doesn’t need jail. I’ve been there myself, and I know jail didn’t do anything for me with my addictions… I’m sorry. I’m just… a little upset…

Michael continues:

This girl needs a rehab. She needs help… If Lindsay’s lawyer and Lindsay would have just listened to us, she would have been in a rehab, she would have been on her way to being clean and sober and have her life back. Instead, she got jail and – jail and rehab.

Lisa Bloom, his lawyer, chimes in:

I don’t want there to be misinterpretation that Michael and I think the sentence was appropriate because we don’t. And we sent a letter to the court today. We sent one previously, begging the court not to incarcerate her because I’m a pragmatist, Larry. What message does it send to someone if they go to jail for 84 minutes or for a day and a half?

Dina Lohan also told Popeater that it’s not “fair to do this” to her child. Do you think Lindsay’s setence was too harsh?

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