Plaxico Burress began his two-year stint as a special guest of the New York state correctional facility system on Tuesday night, and the reception the ex-Giants receiver received couldn’t have been warmer. In fact, it was downright heated.
Plaxico’s first stop was an evening at Rikers Island, where the jailbirds were crowing at him at every opportunity.
From the NEW 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.”
“These people got nothing,” a second guard explained of the taunts. “What else are they gonna do?”
Pretty rough start for Plaxico. But fortunately, the Rikers Island sleepover was only for one night’s stay. Burress was sent yesterday to the Ulster Correctional Facility, where he’ll be evaluated and assigned more permanent residence in one of New York’s many state prisons.
At Ulster, he did receive some welcoming gifts - an ID card, new hunter green prison wardrobe, work boots, sneakers, a shower, an orientation meeting, the shaving of his goatee, and a strip search. Most important of all, Plaxico received his new inmate number: 09-R-3260.
So, how soon until we start seeing Cowboys, Eagles & Redskins fans wearing Giants jerseys with “09-R-3260″ on the back? NFL Shop better prepare for an influx of orders.
Anyway, Corrections Department spokesperson Linda Foglia describes how a typical day will be for Plaxico in prison:
“He will be separated from the inmate population at all times and confined to a single cell,” Foglia said. He’ll only get out for three hours of recreation per day, plus his required meetings with counselors and medical and mental health staffers. He’s allowed three showers a week and one visit per weekend, Foglia said. At 11 p.m., it’s lights out.
Sounds strict? Eh, it’s no worse than playing under Tom Coughlin.
12:06 pm on September 24th, 2009
Really? Shooting himself in the leg wasn’t punishment enough? This is total BS I think.
Stupid.
12:32 pm on September 24th, 2009
That’s what you get kids when you try to be a gangster in NYC.
12:54 pm on September 24th, 2009
Plax wasn’t trying to be a gangster.
This is bogus. He shot himself, didn’t shoot anyone else. Should be punishment enough.
12:57 pm on September 24th, 2009
That was a racist jail term conviction he got. If jeremy Shockey did that 2 years earlier he would have got 1 year suspended sent probation.
1:17 pm on September 24th, 2009
If Plaxico had shot an unborn child he would have gotten a lesser sentence. This is ridiculously out-of-whack with other crimes and sentences.
1:39 pm on September 24th, 2009
If it’s truly ridiculous then the laws in New York should be changed. And of course let’s throw the race card out there. EVERYTHING concerning black celebrities & athletes is ALWAYS about race.
1:49 pm on September 24th, 2009
Its not racist, he was offered a plea deal to plead guilty and do 8 months time and community service, HE said no to that deal. he rolled the dice,
He didnt get two years for shooting himself he got it for having a unregistered gun within the city limits of NY, where gun laws are on par with the gun crime,
NY is a place where during the 5pm news they will mention 4 shootings, then not mention those shooting during the 11pm news BECAUSE by the time the 11pm news comes along there have already been 5 more shootings within the city.
The only thing I think is wrong is sending him to Rikers, thats hell right there, I really mean Hell, I cant think of a worst prison in the US, he should be there
1:51 pm on September 24th, 2009
Let’s face it. He could have avoided this WHOLE thing, by simply purchasing and implementing a good holster.
1:53 pm on September 24th, 2009
He broke the law, now live with it, boo hoo, dumbass millionare, who had it all, thought he was a gangsta, now time to watch the cornhole!!
1:55 pm on September 24th, 2009
idiot could have shot someone else. Luckily he only shot himself. He knew the strict NY gun laws and choose to break’em. Plaxico has maybe 2 brain cells & this behavior is consistent with his past.
1:57 pm on September 24th, 2009
Plaxico is dumb, hire a guy that has a permit to use and conceal, like most people do, then if he shoots someone oh well..not your fault,….it worked for p diddy and snoop and busta rhymes.
2:05 pm on September 24th, 2009
H. Goering
1:51 pm on September 24th, 2009
Let’s face it. He could have avoided this WHOLE thing, by simply purchasing and implementing a good holster.
um….how about a body guard if he was sooo concerned for his saftey….nah….then his boys would call him soft and he would lose all that street cred
2:17 pm on September 24th, 2009
To avoid shooting themselves or others, why don’t these guys just bring the party to their house? Like Jayson Williams.
2:56 pm on September 24th, 2009
Are you people insane? If any of you spent 5 seconds in NYC then you would understand why it’s illegal to carry a gun here. This is not some sleepy town where everyone shoots cans in their backyard for fun because there’s no movie theater for 50 miles. How would you like to be packed like veal on a train during rush hour standing next to some guy carrying a gun? So stupid.
They are making a big deal here that the city is on pace for the lowest number of murders in 50 years, but it’s still going to be over 450 people killed! The city is bragging that only 450 people are going to be murdered this year, but yet someone who carries a gun illegally should not be punished? Seriously?
Everyone complains that athletes are allowed to get away with anything they want, but then when they break the law those same people complain that it’s not fair that they get punished? What’s the point in having laws if every time someone does something wrong they are let go because it’s not fair?
3:26 pm on September 24th, 2009
Send him back to Rikers Island….
3:37 pm on September 24th, 2009
that’s what happens when “keepin’ it real” goes wrong
4:04 pm on September 24th, 2009
Maybe 20 months is too much to be confined by oneself for the crime. However, he should be punished for breaking the law- no matter if he is in the public eye or not.
5:03 pm on September 24th, 2009
let’s see, some of the strictest gun laws in the gun, but most gun crimes. When r we gonna learn we have it backwards. You want gun crimes to stop, teach everybody about gun safety and give let them exercise their right to own and carry. Otherwise only the criminals have them and they know they don’t have to worry about most other people. Don’t believe me, if you were going to shoot somebody would you do it with a gun registered in your name? The only reason to register guns is so someday they can take them away (and taxes)
5:04 pm on September 24th, 2009
I ain’t saying Plaxico’s smart, but the lawmaker up there ain’t much better
11:30 pm on September 24th, 2009
Whats up with him getting a worse sentence then the guy who killed some one drunk driving thats what I dont understand
12:03 am on September 25th, 2009
Now lookie hera….
Done you tink that da brotha got sent up da riva????
damn you…..
He had da gun, he done shot himself,.
Y is dat a brotha wit no common sence not allow anotha brotha to carry da gun???? What’s up wit dat sheet!!!
Y’all jezt undatand dat dumb brotha are put in the clink cuz’in if you cary da heet, y’all gots ta do da time.
Y’all be cool now!!!!
12:26 am on September 25th, 2009
Plaxico deserves to be in jail because the gun that he carried into the night club could have lead to the injuries or deaths of others in the night club. It wouldn’t have been likely, but it was possible, and his stupidity of shooting himself served him right.
8:45 am on September 25th, 2009
dude, why is your screenname H. Goering? Do you know who Hermann Goering was? He was a Nazi, commander of the Luftwaffe in WW2, and subsequently convicted of war crimes. Why in hell would you want to name yourself after someone like that?
9:05 am on September 25th, 2009
FOR JIM:
Try this - outlaw handguns completely throughout the US. Then, in a city of 3+ Million people you too can have an average of only 76 murders per year. Yes, that’s right, only 76 murders per year. And guess what - only 50% of those murders are with handguns.
With a murder rate of only 1.8 per 100,000 maybe there’s something to this gun law thing?
But let’s not stop there - UK: 1.1 murders per 100,000, coincidence? I think not. Australia: 1.5 per 100,000.
The point is this: lower murder rates are evident in every other developed nation that has outlawed handguns. What are you waiting for? The red-coats aren’t coming around the bend anymore. Just the red-necks!
9:23 am on September 25th, 2009
No one seems to think about why he took a loaded gun into a crowded club. What was his intention or motive? He had to know he was either a target for something (drugs) or he was making a target out of someone else. Another thing that no one talks about is the fact that the gun wasn’t registered. What does that mean you un-educated city slickers might ask? It means he could kill someone and the authorities could never trace it back to him. The bottom line, Plax was definitely hiding something.
11:18 am on September 25th, 2009
“Really? Shooting himself in the leg wasn’t punishment enough? This is total BS I think.
Stupid.”
No whats stupid is you thinking it’s BS for him shooting himself in the leg. It’s because he had it in public and shot himself. He put other people in danger, what the hell does he need a gun for. He deserves it.
4:32 pm on September 25th, 2009
total bs … he shouldnt have had any jail time at all
3:24 pm on September 29th, 2009
Just seems like a contradiction to me. You want to take the guns away from the “rednecks” who mostly own guns “legally” so that inner city blacks will stop shooting each other with their unregistered, illegally purchased guns with no serial numbers. Great plan. Why don’t you make snickers bars illegal for all of us because the fat kids can’t stop eating them. I’d say something about cigarettes but we can’t smoke those anyplace now anyway. Oh and alcohol is legal but weed is really bad. Where’s William Wallace and his chants of FREEDOM when you need him. Maybe we just need a Queen, huh? That’ll fix everything.
6:16 pm on October 2nd, 2009
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The United States Constitution.
It appears we have indeed forgotten
6:20 pm on October 2nd, 2009
I am shocked that more people are not absolutely pissed about this ruling.
This is ridiculous. I am a white guy. So I am not coming from the standpoint of attempting to support my homey. Plaxico is an American Citizen. This is completely messed up. Two years in jail is insanity. He shot himself! He had a concealed guns permit in Florida that had expired a few months earlier. Granted, this is in New York and not Florida. But it highlights the fact that he had made attempts to carry a gun legally in the past. He should have received maybe a small fine and that is it. TWO YEARS IN JAIL…..TWO YEARS! BALLS!