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Harvey Weinstein Hires Prison Consultant, May Avoid Extended Stay At Rikers Island

Emily Zanotti
Harvey Weinstein Hires Prison Consultant, May Avoid Extended Stay At Rikers Island
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Harvey Weinstein, following in the footsteps of other high-profile Hollywood convicts, has hired a “prison consultant” to help ease him into life behind bars, according to the New York Post.

The entertainment mega-mogul was convicted, Monday, of two counts of criminal sexual conduct, and is facing between 5 and 29 years in prison, and he’s hoping to avoid serving time in New York’s notorious Rikers Island prison, which is miserable for even the most hardened of inmates.

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