Foxy Brown getting out of prison on Friday

Where does the time go? It seemed just yesterday Foxy Brown was being sent up the river for parole violations, but already she's set for a release from Riker's Island on Friday.  But TMZ says it's not going to be a quiet event.

The Web site says the rapper's PR team plans on making it a spectacle, with a press conference and lots of flashbulbs. But the Department of Corrections points out the Riker's parking lot is way too small for that nonsense, so they'll have to do it somewhere else.

That's fair, since inmates usually have to take a bus from the island to Queens and then into Manhattan to meet their families. But Foxy doesn't know from fair -- for the record, she was sentenced to 12 months in September, so we don't know why she's getting out now.

"She did every single minute of her bid in jail, and she did it under the most severe conditions," manager Chaz Williams told Billboard. "They had her on continuous lockdown just because she is a celebrity. They were trying to break her spirit."

Oh yes, she's suffered so much for beating and spitting on salon owners and neighbors. Let's hope her humanity is intact.

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