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01-07-2010, 07:18 PM
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Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Plaxico Burress is not getting out of prison just yet.

The former New York Giants star receiver had applied for work release, but has been denied by the New York Department of Correctional Services.

Burress made the application just a few months into his two-year sentence. Prosecutors said it would be too soon to give the former Super Bowl star a break.

Burress went to prison in September for carrying a gun that accidentally went off in a nightclub; he was hit in the leg by a bullet. He pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon.

He has a month to appeal the decision. He also can reapply for work release in July.

Burress' lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.