Rapper T.I., jailed shortly after his latest release for having 'unauthorized contact with the public' on his way to the halfway house [click here if you missed that], will find out this week if he will be released from jail early...
From Access Atlanta
Rapper T.I. could find out within days if he’ll leave the federal prison in Atlanta and go back to a halfway house after being accused of violating conditions of his furlough.
In a letter to the rapper’s lawyer, Steven Sadow, a corrections administrator said a hearing on the violations was held Friday and a recommendation has been forwarded to a discipline hearing officer.
“If the DHO certifies the recommendation, the certification indicates the final decision in the administrative disciplinary process,” wrote Cheryl Dennings, community corrections regional administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. “We expect the DHO decision this week,”
T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., is scheduled to be released from federal custody on Sept. 29.
Sadow, who said he was not told about the Friday hearing, said T.I. remained at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta on Tuesday.
“He’s being afforded what appears to be the same privileges as other inmates housed, but he is segregated,” the attorney said.
The rapper was accused of having “unauthorized contact with the public” on Aug. 31 during a 375-mile trip from the Federal Correctional Center in Forrest City, Ark., to an Atlanta halfway house.
T.I., who has a VH1 reality show coming out in December, is also accused of conducting business during the trip, breaking another condition of his furlough.
The rapper has been in federal custody since an arrest in September 2010 in Los Angeles on drug charges. He was sentenced to 11 months for violating probation of an earlier conviction on federal firearms charges.
T.I., 30, was expected to spend the final month of his latest federal sentence at Dismas Charities Atlanta halfway house.
He made the trip from Arkansas to Atlanta in a motor coach with his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle Harris, and two executives from the entertainment industry.
A Bureau of Prisons incident report said the rapper violated conditions of his furlough because he was traveling with unauthorized people – the two executives – and he was conducting business about an upcoming VH1 reality show and a new book.
T.I. denied he was conducting business on the trip. The executives, Brian Sher, president and CEO of Los Angeles-based Category 5 Entertainment, and Cris Abrego, co-president of 51 Minds Entertainment, also denied they were conducting business and said they had been authorized to visit the rapper in prison.
