T.I. To Remain In Prison Until September 29th

by Steven J. Horowitz

                                   

UPDATE #2: Tip will remain incarcerated until his initial release date.

Only a day after his release from Federal Correctional Center in Forrest City, Arkansas to a halfway house in Atlanta, Georgia, T.I. has been removed to a "different facility" because prison officials objected to his using a tour bus to move between locations. He is now in federal custody.
According to CNN.com, Tip had agreed to provide his own transportation from the prison to his halfway home, but now federal prison officials are reviewing how got there - by tour bus.
A U.S. Bureau of Prison spokeswoman said she could not yet disclose where T.I. was transferred.
[September 1]
UPDATE: According to TMZ, T.I. allegedly misled prison officials into thinking his mode of transportation from prison to his halfway home would be "low-key," along the lines of a van. Instead, he took a luxury bus to his house, which the prison didn't consider "low-key."
When U.S. Marshals arrived to take him back to jail, Tip supposedly mouthed off at them for catching him on such a "ridiculous violation." He is currently being held in federal custody.
[September 2]
UPDATE #2: According to AP, T.I. will remain incarcerated until September 29th, when he was initially supposed to be released from jail.
"The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) appears to have an issue with the circumstances surrounding TI's transportation from Arkansas to Atlanta," said Steve Sadow, Tip's attorney. "T.I. got on a private bus in the prison's parking area in full view of BOP employees. Indeed, he was actually escorted to the bus by a prison guard."

Tiny says that prison officials switched up their story with regard to the rapper's latest legal drama.

When T.I. was transported back to prison after making his way to a halfway house, police explained that the reason was because T.I. only informed officials he would be traveling in a van, and not a tour bus.
Not so, says the rapper's wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle. Speaking to TMZ, Tiny revealed that prison officials actually took photos with T.I. in front of the bus, and nobody had an issue with it. According to Tiny, they "walked him over, took pics and told him good luck in life."
"This is a bunch of bullshit ... they should have said something before he got on the bus," added Tiny. "T.I. would have politely gotten into a van."
"T.I. is one of the strongest individuals I know ... and they just trying to break him in more ways than one and it's not gonna work! 'Cause what God got for him, can't no man take that away ... period!" she concluded.