A New York real-estate broker Richard Silver was sentenced for selling counterfeit Damien Hirst spots. See, what happened was is that bought some “spots” that turned out to be forgeries, so he re-sold the fakes on eBay. Now he’s headed to Rikers Island for sixty days. Read more »
Harvest Dome — an art project made from upcycled umbrella spokes and empty soda bottles — shipwrecked at Rikers Island this week. The guards took preemptive measures (lest the giant was some sort of escape raft?) and lassoed, reeled in and towed it with a truck until it was “reduced to a pile of broken plywood and tangled metal.” Read more »
We got in touch with Sharman Stein, the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information at New York City Department of Correction about Drake’s lyrics. Read more »
Going to jail is never fun, unless you’re visiting someone at Rikers Island of course. Drake drops a veiled yet noteworthy claim on Tha Carter 4 that he slept with a prison guard while paying a visit to Lil Wayne at Rikers. Read more »
If you agree that locking up Poster Boy for 11 months at Rikers Island—regardless of his past arrests and missed court dates—is a bit excessive, you may want to join the Free Poster Boy page on Facebook. Sure, it might not be as successful as the campaign to get Betty White on SNL, but it is another avenue to get the word out that the city could benefit a lot more from hours of community service than it can from the costs of locking someone up for almost a year.
As we reported yesterday, the artist-vandal known as Poster Boy was sentenced to 11 months at Rikers Island. He is housed at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center (OBCC), which one Department of Corrections operator described as “the worst jail” over there. But, he did say that being “an artist is a commodity” and could help keep him make friends as inmates often need stuff drawn for custom jailhouse-style stationery. Hey, it worked for KIKO. UPDATE: He’s been moved to the EMTC (Eric M Taylor Center). Read more »
As the countdown clock on his newly launched site notes, rapper Lil Wayne still has 215 days and a few hours/minutes/seconds to go until he is released from Rikers Island, but in the meantime he’ll stay busy by reading letters from fans and then posting responses on WeezyThanxYou.com. Write him here: Eric M. Taylor Center, Dwayne Carter NYSID# 02616544L, 10-10 Hazen Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370
This was the scene outside of the criminal courthouse in Manhattan earlier as Lil Wayne arrived to be sentenced. Judge Charles Solomon gave the rapper an opportunity to address the court, but he declined and a verdict was finally rendered: one year at Rikers. With good behavior, he’ll be out in eight months. But as one cell closes another one opens: TI’s got a new track out: “I’m Back.” |Miss Info|
I’m not sure the internet can handle anymore farewell videos from Lil Wayne. The rapper was on his way to criminal court in Manhattan to get sentenced today, but there was a fire in the basement, and he was once again spared incarceration at Rikers Island. Last time he was given a reprieve to get dental work done. No date has been set for his new hearing yet, so expect a few more sensitively poetic tweets before he tries for a third time.
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