Lil’ Wayne’s First Days in Jail

After several delays, ‘Lil Wayne aka “Inmate Carter” began serving his sentence on Monday at Riker’s Island and life is a lot different in Wayne’s (new) World.

“Inmate Carter is in a category of housing that we call ‘general population/escort,’ ” a New York City Department of Corrections official told People magazine. Every hour Wanye can decide if he wants to be locked in or out of his six-by-ten cell and when he leaves the housing area (his cell or a day room which he shares with 19 other inmates), he will have a captain escorting him at all times.

According to ihiphop.com who spoke to another correctional officer at Rikers: “There’s a lotta hype surrounding the fact the he’s not in protective custody (PC), but in general population. But it’s not really a big thing. In prison, they treat all inmates like the next” and apparently “so far the inmates love him” and “there doesn’t seem to be anyone, any faction trying to get at him in a harmful way.” Wayne has kept a fairly low profile so far: “There hasn’t been much activity with Wayne, especially since he’s busy undergoing the processing an inmate goes through immediately upon his incarceration….The only thing out of the norm is the amount of calls the prison has been receiving from Wayne’s people, hounding them with questions about whether he’ll be forced to cut his hair, and a few weeks ago, what would the situation be with him having all them carats in his mouth (I think that’s why they opted to have that emergency dental procedure).”

Apparently “a couple of guards have been written up, only because they’ve acted like fans, having more personal interaction with Wayne than is procedure” but Wayne is leading a pretty standard life behind the wall. He wears the standard institutional clothing: Green work shirt and pants plus slip-on style sneakers, will eat on the same meal schedule as everyone else (4:30 am breakfast, 11am lunch, 4:30pm dinner), will get an hour of outside recreation daily, can buy snacks and toiletries from his Commissary account, which friends and family can contribute to online (you know he’ll be hooked up there) and has visitation privileges (how long before Young Money takes a field trip?).

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