AceShowbiz - Harvey Weinstein has returned to the hospital due to "an alarming blood test result" that needs "immediate medical attention." His attorney Imran H. Ansari revealed that the former producer was sent to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Monday, December 2 to receive "emergent treatment" amid his cancer battle.

In a statement issued on Monday, Ansari claimed that his client was deprived "adequate medical care" in jail. "Harvey Weinstein, who has been suffering from a lack of adequate medical care and enduring deplorable and inhumane conditions on Rikers Island, has been transported to Bellevue Hospital for emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention," the statement read.

Giving an update on Weinstein's hospitalization, the attorney added, "It is expected that he will remain there until his condition stabilizes. His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of his constitutional rights."

A publicist for Weinstein, Juda Engelmayer, echoed the allegation in a statement released on Monday. "Mr. Weinstein, who is suffering from a number of illnesses, including leukemia, has been deprived the medical attention that someone in his medical state deserves, prisoner or not," he said. "In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment."

Speaking to TMZ, Weinstein's attorney confirmed that the blood test was taken at Rikers Island and was related to his leukemia diagnosis. While the results are concerning, the lawyer said the condition is treatable.

Weinstein's latest hospitalization comes less than a week after he filed a legal claim alleging substandard medical care at New York's notorious jail complex. "When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb, possibly from IV's, clothes that had not been washed for weeks, and he had not even been provided clean underwear - hardly sanitary conditions for someone with severe medical conditions," his attorney Ansari said in a statement that likened Rikers Island to a "gulag."

The disgraced movie mogul was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in late October, a month after pleading not guilty to a new sex crime charge from the Grand Jury and the Manhattan District Attorney.