Harvey Weinstein has returned to New York's Rikers Island prison after a hospital stay. UNN reports with reference to The Independent.
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Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been returned to a New York prison after a 10-day hospital stay.
His publicist, Jude Engelmeyer, said that Weinstein was transferred late Monday night from Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to an infirmary in the city's Rikers Island jail complex.
This happened a few hours after the non-profit publication The City reported that Weinstein was placed in a separate room in the intensive care unit with a TV, phone and bathroom, rather than on a separate floor where prisoners usually live.
Engelmeyer denied this claim, saying that Weinstein "did not receive preferential or VIP treatment" and was not placed in a room that could be characterized as a hospital suite. Engelmeyer said he was placed on the inmate floor, where everyone has access to a room with a phone and TV.
He was transferred back to prison because of pressure, because of the news that someone considered his treatment to be VIP treatment
Craig Rothfeld, a prison counselor, responded to an email sent by Weinstein's lawyer, stating that the decision to return Weinstein to Rikers was made by medical staff.
Engelmeyer said that Weinstein was being treated in the hospital for pneumonia, which he constantly has due to heart problems, as well as other medical problems, including diabetes.
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Weinstein was brought to Bellevue Hospital a few hours after he was transferred from Mohawk Correctional Facility to Rikers Prison on April 26, and less than a day after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his conviction.
The appellate court ruled that the Manhattan trial judge had allowed the jury to see and hear too much evidence that was not directly related to the charges against him and ordered a new trial, overturning his 23-year prison sentence. Weinstein remained in prison, however, as in 2022 he was found guilty of another rape in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
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