Burress loses bid for work release (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Former New York Giants Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has come up short in his bid for work release during his two-year prison sentence for accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a nightclub, prison officials said Tuesday. The state Department of Correctional Services said the nature of his November 2008 crime merited denying his request for a work furlough, which would have let him spend...

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