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Plaxico Burress doesn't find Rikers' inmates wearing Giants jerseys

Sep 24, 2009

By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY  2009-09-24

Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress found out the downside of celebrity when he reported to Rikers' Island in the first step of serving a two-year prison sentence.

Writes Laura Italiano and Kevin Fasick of theNew York Post:

Plaxico Burress got a zero's welcome behind bars at Rikers Island, including taunts of "a - - hole!" and "The Giants suck!" according to jail guards.

"He was depressed," said one guard from Rikers, where the former Giants superstar spent his first-ever night behind bars. "He was trying to keep to himself, but everyone was yelling at him."

....His stay at his first stop, Rikers, was brief. By 11 a.m. yesterday, he'd been driven upstate to the medium-security, 586-inmate Ulster Correctional Facility in Napanoch, an intake center where he'll be evaluated for more permanent placement elsewhere in the state prison system, said Correction Department spokeswoman Linda Foglia.

At Ulster, Burress was strip-searched. He was also shorn of his trademark goatee.

He got a shower, an ID card, an orientation session and his new wardrobe. That includes his hunter-green uniform tops and bottoms, a pair of black work boots, and a pair of white, low-top canvas sneakers.

His inmate number was also assigned: 09-R-3260.

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