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JUDGE ORDERS T.I. BACK TO PRISON FOR 11 MONTHS

Judge Orders T.I. Back to Prison for 11 Months

*As predicted by many, rapper/actor T.I. is going back to jail. An angry federal judge on Friday sentenced him to 11 more months in prison for violating his probation.

A contrite T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., asked the court for leniency.

“I screwed up,” said the rapper, wearing a three-piece gray suit. “I screwed up bigtime, and I’m sorry. I’m truly and sincerely sorry. I don’t want and I don’t need to use drugs anymore. I want them out of my life.”

But U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pannell Jr. was unmoved. Pannell noted that he had tried an extraordinary sentence with Harris, who was initially convicted of weapons charges, by permitting him to stay out of prison while performing 1,000 hours of community service. The service consisted largely of visits with schoolchildren to speak out against violence, gangs and drugs