Rikers Island Incarceration
Tupac's 1995 jail time: Bellevue, Rikers Island, then Clinton Correctional Facility.
Unable to post a $3 million bond before sentencing, Tupac Shakur surrendered to the Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward in New York City on December 23, 1994, still recovering from the Quad Studios shooting. In January 1995 he was moved to the North Infirmary Command on Rikers Island.
Quick Facts
- Surrendered
- December 23, 1994, Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward
- Rikers island
- January 1995 (North Infirmary Command)
- Sentence
- 18 months to 4 1/2 years (February 7, 1995)
- Transferred
- Clinton Correctional Facility, March 1995
- Released on bond
- October 12, 1995 ($1.4 million)
Lore & Background
On February 7, 1995, he was sentenced to 18 months to 4 1/2 years in prison by a judge who condemned "an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman". In March 1995 he was transferred to Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, and his album Me Against the World was released that month while he was incarcerated.
Reader's Guide
Shakur believed his accuser was connected to Jacques Agnant and James "Henchman" Rosemond, whom he blamed for the Quad Studios shooting. Jada Pinkett later said she declined his marriage proposal while he was at Rikers. On October 12, 1995, he bonded out of Clinton after Death Row's Suge Knight arranged his $1.4 million bond pending appeal.
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