This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Legal
Prison officials sent TI back to jail over business talks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 9 September 2011
Prison officials have clarified why they sent TI back to jail last week just days after releasing him early. As previously reported, the hip hopper, in prison for breaking terms of probation relating to earlier gun charges, was released a month early last week and told to see out the rest of his sentence in a ‘half way house’ in his home city of Atlanta. But shortly after returning to Atlanta he was taken back into full custody.
It was initially claimed that prison officials had taken exception to the form of transport TI had used to return to Atlanta – he charted a luxury tour bus which was accompanied by several SUVs. But the rapper’s wife, Tiny, pointed out that prison officials saw the transport the rapper had booked when it arrived at the jail, adding that some officers had their photos taken with the rapper outside the bus, and therefore they had plenty of time to raise objections then.
According to TMZ, the authorities have now said that their objections are not related to type of vehicle TI used, but the fact he allowed business associates onto the bus and conducted business talks with them. They add that the rapper had been told he could only travel with his wife, and that he must not conduct business while in transit.
TI’s people, who reckon prison officials have just changed their story because of the points raised by Tiny, also deny any business dealings took place on the bus, though it’s known VH1 had been filming the rapper shortly after his release for a TV show, and a book deal was confirmed very soon after he left prison.
