Her incarceration marked a new low point for the troubled 24-year-old party girl who was once considered among the most talented actresses of her generation.
Lohan, star of The Parent Trap, Mean Girls, and Freaky Friday, was met by a swarm of cameras as she arrived at court in Beverly Hills to surrender herself for a sentence imposed two weeks ago.
She was accompanied by her mother Dina, younger sister Ali, and lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley. Her father Michael Lohan, with whom she has a strained relationship, was also in court.
The actress, dressed in dark sunglasses, a black suit and grey T-shirt, did not speak during the five minute hearing but looked tired and tense.
She did not cry when she was handcuffed and led away but her sister broke down in tears.
Judge Marsha Revel ordered that Lohan not be allowed to serve any of her sentence under house arrest or a work release scheme.
However, overcrowding in Los Angeles jails means she is unlikely to serve the full time period and may be out in as little as 23 days.
Lohan had been on probation since August 2007 following a drink driving and cocaine arrest.
The judge determined two weeks ago that she had violated her probation by missing seven alcohol education classes since December and handed down the 90 day sentence, ordering it to start on July 20.
Last month Lohan had also missed a court appearance, claiming she had lost her passport while on a trip to the Cannes film festival. The judge issued an arrest warrant at the time but revoked it when bail was posted.
For the last month the actress has been wearing an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet and submitting to random weekly drug and alcohol tests. She voluntarily spent the last week in a sober living facility in Los Angeles.
She will serve her sentence at the all-female, 2,200-bed Century Regional Detention Facility south of Los Angeles.
It has previously housed other starlets, including Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Michelle Rodriguez. Lohan was held there for 84 minutes in 2006.
She is expected to be kept in solitary for her own protection following reports that lesbian prison gangs may attack her.
She will live in a 12ft by 8ft cell and will have to wear an orange prison jumpsuit.
Lohan must also attend a 90-day rehabilitation course on her release from jail.
The night before surrendering to the court the former child star posted a message on her Twitter account, saying: "The only 'bookings' that I'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that I'd be 'booking' into Jail ... eeeks."
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