Foxy Brown Sentenced To Solitary Confinement

US rapper Foxy Brown has been put into solitary confinement after she became embroiled in a prison fight with another inmate.

Brown must now spend 76 days in segregation, said a Rikers prison spokesperson.

Stephen Morello, deputy commissioner for public information for the city's correction department, said that Brown was separated from other inmates on October 16th are she scuffled with another prisoner.

He added that following the incident Brown became abusive towards prison guards and also refused to take a drugs test.

The combined incidents that mean that the rapper will now spend up to 23 hours a day in isolation, reports AP.

Brown is currently serving time for violating her probation in a case after becoming involved in a fight with manicurists in a nail salon in Manhattan.