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TI back behind bars

By | Published on Monday 5 September 2011

TI

TI is back behind bars, it seems, after a dispute over how the rapper travelled from prison to a “half way house” last week.

As previously reported, TI left prison a month early last week after being jailed last year for breaking probation terms. He was due to spend the final month of his sentence in a residential transition facility, a move which allowed him to be filmed for a new reality TV show and to enter into a book deal.

However, this weekend it was confirmed that TI was back in prison, albeit in his home city of Atlanta, rather than Arkansas, where he was previously incarcerated. A prison spokesman confirmed TI was back in jail but said he didn’t know why. But according to TI’s legal rep, it was because prison officials took exception to the way the rapper travelled from Arkansas to Atlanta, ie by luxury bus.

Reuters quote attorney Steve Sadow as saying: “We are awaiting the opportunity to quickly resolve whatever the issue may be that the Federal Bureau Of Prisons has with TI’s method of transportation – bus – from Arkansas to Atlanta, so that TI can return to the halfway house to complete the remaining days of his sentence”

If TI now has to serve all of his sentence in prison it means he’ll be there until the end of the month. It’s not clear whether that would impact on his VH1 reality show, which is due to start airing in December.



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