Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in jail for tax evasion. The former Fugees singer will not only serve time in jail, but will also serve time in home confinement despite paying off her long-overdue taxes.

Last year, Hill, 37, pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion or failing to file returns on the $1.8 million she earned from 2005 to 2007. Her attorney asked the judge in Newark, New Jersey for leniency, claiming that she has six kids and charity work.

"I was put into a system I didn't know the nature of," she delivered her statement to the judge, as quoted by TMZ. "I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me.

"I sold 50 million units... now I'm up here paying a tax debt. If that's not likened to slavery, I don't know what is."

Her attorney told the Associated Press that said that she had already paid more than $970,000 in both state and federal taxes.

In the documents she filed last month, Hill claimed that she had failed to file tax returns in three years because she "withdrew from society at large due to what she perceived as manipulation and very real threats to herself and her family."

The judge wasn't sympathetic, though, sentencing Hill to three months in jail on Monday. The singer was also ordered to spend another three months on house arrest, followed by nine months of supervised release. She is expected to report to prison by July 8.

She recently signed a new record deal with Sony Worldwide Entertainment to help her pay her taxes. And on Sunday, she has released a track titled "Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)," which she was told to release at once.

"Here's a link to a piece that I was 'required' to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline. I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music... but the message is still there," she wrote on her blog.