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Harvey Weinstein on Rikers: "I Need To Get Out of This Hell Hole"

An April 15 trial date was set as Weinstein asked for an earlier start due to "emergency" health conditions.

He called the conditions at Rikers Island where he’s being held a “medieval situation” and said he believes he’s headed back to Bellevue Hospital “any day now.” Amid the hearings, Weinstein’s attorneys have repeatedly pointed to their client’s poor health and lack of proper care at Rikers Island. Weinstein was arraigned in September on the count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree, which stemmed from a recent indictment returned by a grand jury.

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