Harvey Weinstein heading to Rikers Island prison

torontosun.com:

Harvey Weinstein is set to be discharged from hospital and transferred to New York’s Rikers Island prison.The disgraced movie mogul was admitted to Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital with chest pains last Wednesday, shortly after he was sentenced to serve 23 years behind bars for rape and sexual assault.He has been under doctors’ care ever since, but on Monday, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer revealed Weinstein was well enough to be released and will be heading back to Rikers Island, where he will be held in the medical ward, North Infirmary Command.“It’s known that he has a weak heart,” Engelmayer tells Variety. “So, right after the sentencing, when he went back to Rikers, he was faint and talking funny, and the staff at Rikers felt it was best