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"Lil Wayne set to test how jails handle celebs"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of the post is the headline of this new piece concerning the special (or not-so-special) treatment that some celebrity prisoners get.  Here are snippets: Lil Wayne ... is expected to start a yearlong jail term Tuesday after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.... For now, jail officials say only that they will assess the multiplatinum-selling Lil Wayne as they do every other new arrival and find an appropriate place for him among the city?s roughly 13,000 inmates. He might follow the path of rapper Foxy Brown, who spent about eight months in 2007 and 2008 in city jails on a probation violation after pleading guilty to assault in a fracas at a nail salon. Because of threats against her, she was held largely in protective custody in a cell of her own, with access to a day room, said Horn...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).