Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, and Christine Beatty, the mayor's former Chief of Staff attend a hearing in 36th District Court Aug. 7, 2008 in Detroit, Mich. Kilpatrick has been ordered to the county jail after a judge found the mayor violated the terms of his bond by going to Canada and not informing the court. Kilpatrick and Beatty are charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. They are accused of lying about having an intimate relationship and their roles in the firing of a police official. (AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell)

DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday for a bond violation in his perjury case, his pleas for leniency rejected by a judge who made it clear the mayor would get no special treatment.

Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other felonies over his testimony in a civil trial, apologized and acknowledged that he made a mistake when he visited Windsor, Ontario, minutes away from Detroit, for city business last month. But District Judge Ronald Giles was not moved, saying he needed to treat the mayor like any other defendant.

‘‘What matters to me ... is how the court overall is perceived and how if it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat, if it was John Six-Pack sitting in that seat, what would I do? And that answer is simple,’’ Giles said.

It was a stunning outcome, exceeding even what prosecutors had sought. And it came two days after Kilpatrick’s mother, U.S. Rep.