Foxy Brown separated from fellow inmates
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Rapper will spend the next 76 days alone in prison
Foxy Brown has been put in punitive segregation at Rikers Island prison after getting into a fight with a fellow inmate.
Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is serving a year in prison after she violated her probation.
The rapper was on probation after assaulting staff at a branch of Bloomies nail salon in New York City.
She was later involved in a fight with a staff member of a beauty shop in Florida, was arrested for traffic violations in New Jersey and accused of assaulting a Brooklyn neighbour with her mobile phone.
Punitive segregation means that Brown will be isolated in a cell for up to 23 hours each day.
--By our New York staff.
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Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is serving a year in prison after she violated her probation.
The rapper was on probation after assaulting staff at a branch of Bloomies nail salon in New York City.
She was later involved in a fight with a staff member of a beauty shop in Florida, was arrested for traffic violations in New Jersey and accused of assaulting a Brooklyn neighbour with her mobile phone.
Punitive segregation means that Brown will be isolated in a cell for up to 23 hours each day.
--By our New York staff.
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