Beanie Sigel Sentenced To One Gruelling Day In Jail

Beanie Sigel is a rapper who's been shot in the shoulder in the past, but that's hardly going to measure up to the hell of what he's about to experience.

That's because Beanie Sigel has been sentenced to jail for repeated parole violations. And we're not talking some light-touch 90-minute jail sentence like Lindsay Lohan or Nicole Richie got, either - Beanie Sigel is going downtown bigtime, for a full backbreaking 24 hours.

Hopefully jail will do the trick for Beanie Sigel, and we're expecting him to come out older and wiser. 24 hours older and 24 hours wiser, to be precise.

Beanie Sigel has been in some bad places in his life - the man lives in Philadelphia, for God's sake, a town named after cheese - as evidenced in some of his more hard-hitting hip-hop bangers like Oh Daddy and bakery/dairy unification anthem Bread & Butter. So it's not surprising that, in his time, Beanie Sigel has found himself in trouble for this and that.

Famously Beanie Sigel was shot in the shoulder two years ago, although nobody knows why because he decided to communicate with police by singing about poo-handling alone. But that's just the tip of a slightly depressing iceberg - Beanie Sigel also spent a year in jail for attempted murder before he was aquitted and went to jail again for not paying his child support on time.

And now Beanie Sigel is going to jail again, but this time is deserved, because Beanie Sigel has done possibly the most evil thing a man can do - he went to Atlantic City.

As much as going to Atlantic City is a crime worthy of jail in itself, the truth is that the trip violated his probation for all of the above, especially since he's claimed to have met a known felon there. And that's why a judge yesterday sent him to jail. For a day. According to CNN:

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered Sigel to spend a day in prison and extended his probation by 18 months, including [a six-month] halfway house stint. During those six months, Sigel can pursue his work in Philadelphia by day but cannot travel to promote his latest album, "The Solution." The 33-year-old rapper (real name: Dwight Grant) has had a string of legal problems in recent years but insists he is a changed man. "I'm human, but I'm working on my mistakes," he told Surrick. "I do believe that other people do get a chance to go back into society and do the work that they do."

And that's precisely what Beanie Sigel is doing - he's toured schools lecturing about responsible behaviour, he's made videos all about the dangers of getting shot then writing a song about it that mainly deals with pooing - or something - and, bizarrely, he's also staged an anti-violence march with Bill Cosby.

All of that convinced the judge to just give Beanie Sigel a day in jail instead of the nine months that he could have. But still, a day in jail for going to a cold, grimy casino town sounds about fair. After all, Nicole Ritchie got 82 minutes in jail for driving into oncoming full-speed motorway vehicles on drugs, and going to Atlantic City is roughly 17 times more serious than that, so we'd say it was a fair call.

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