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Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Fears He Will Die In Rikers Island Due to Mistreatment By “Vindictive” Prison Officials

“He had blood spattered on him," his attorney Imran H. Ansari says. "I was shocked to see that any prisoner would be treated that way."

Harvey Weinstein ’s legal team fear he will die in the “torture chamber or medieval dungeon” Rikers Island Prison, where he has been left festering in blood-spattered clothes, in the same underwear for weeks, in freezing temperatures and denied basic medicine for cancer. Lawyers for the disgraced movie mogul say his care at the notorious New York prison is so bad they suspect he has been deliberately and vindictively mistreated and “the inevitable outcome is death.” Weinstein, 72, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in October, and was rushed to the prison ward at lower Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital on December 2 when an “alarming” blood test revealed dangerously low levels of white cells, making him more vulnerable to infection and causing a physical crash. State Senator Jessica Ramos, who visited the Rikers facility in September and noted the overcrowding, vermin-infected and filthy conditions, previously said the one thing that “no picture can capture” is “the stench”.

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