I just spent some time looking for additional info other than that article and found some local site, gooeyduct something whatever the fuck. Anyway, couldn't find anything.
But hey, that's how they wrote up the law, they excluded inmates.
As for serving at home, I can't say that should be because I don't know what he did. All I know is that it was deserving of doing 30 days, and I have no reason to believe that it is not totally legit. Really though, if you don't want to deal with jail rules, don't go to jail. Problem solved.