T.I. Will Serve Sentence in Arkansas Prison

T.I. must report to Arkansas by May 26 to serve a prison sentence on federal weapons charges, reports the AP.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., must report to Forrest City's low-security federal prison by noon on May 26, according to court filings. There, Harris will join 1,500 other inmates as he serves a year-and-one-day prison sentence after pleading guilty in March to federal weapons charges in Atlanta.

The rapper had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each charge in his three-count indictment.

A prison spokesman said T.I. will be placed in general population and he will not have any special privileges.

He will be credited for 305 days of home detention he already has served after being charged, so his stay at the Forrest City prison likely will be only two months, which is still enough time to make some friends.

T.I. was arrested after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover federal agents in 2007. That came after his best friend was killed following a post-performance party in Cincinnati in 2006. The rapper has said the bullets that killed his friend were meant for him.

Upon his release, T.I. will be on probation for three years. He also must pay a $100,000 fine as part of his sentence.

The Sunday before he is required to surrender to the prison, T.I. he will play his final concert in Atlanta.




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