While he served eight months in prison for a firearm charge in 2010, Lil Wayne found a way to give back. As he explains in his new memoir of the experience, "Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island," he worked for a time as a suicide prevention aide. "The job is basically to monitor the top tier [of the jail] for an eight-hour shift and if someone wants to hang up (meaning to kill themselves), to not negotiate with them or try to talk to them out of it, but just to alert and officer," he recalls in the book (via the New York Post). "You get paid $50 if you stop the person from actually hanging themselves and $25 if you find them hung up," he adds. "Yeah, it's that real." Excerpted from the journal he kept while he was behind bars, Lil Wayne's book hit shelves this month.
