Foxy Brown was denied early release from prison in order to travel to California for an alleged emergency medical procedure, almost 8 months before her sentence ends, despite a moving letter she wrote the judge.

Rapper Foxy Brown did not receive the early release she petitioned for earlier this month, as Acting Justice Melissa C. Jackson of the New York State Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that the singer could get the medical attention she seeks in New York as well, the Associated Press reports.

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, claimed the hearing condition she suffers from was worsening in jail and that she feared irreparable damage would occur if she was not released. She said she needed immediate examination and repair of her electronic ear implant, which could only be done at a California facility.

“I am terrified of not hearing a fire alarm go off, or being locked in a cell and someone not being kind enough to let me out, since not everyone understands the severity of my condition,” the 29-year-old wrote in her four-page letter to the judge.

The prosecutors were not impressed with her request or her tearjerking letter and called the petition “desperate and frivolous,” arguing that New York offered medical expertise as well.

Brown was sentenced to 1 year behind bars in September 2007, after she violated probation. In 2004 she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault of two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon and was placed on probation, but this did not stop her from further incidents.

She attacked another employer in a beauty salon in 2007 and then opposed the police officer that was called to the shop. Later in the year, she threw her BlackBerry at a female Brooklyn neighbor.

Brown was up to her usual shenanigans in jail as well, whether refusing to board the prison bus in order to attend a court hearing or getting into a bit of a fight with a fellow inmate at Rikers Prison and being placed in solitary confinement.