PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A lawyer for "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch is threatening to go to court if her client is not released soon from a Massachusetts county jail.
Hatch had been serving the remainder of a prison term for tax evasion on home confinement at his sister's Newport, R.I., home. He was jailed Aug. 18 after granting two TV interviews for which the federal Bureau of Prisons says he didn't have permission.
Hatch remains behind bars at the Barnstable County jail in Bourne, Mass.
He had a hearing Wednesday with sheriff's deputies. His lawyer, Cynthia Ribas, says the information gathered at the hearing will be passed on to federal prison authorities. They will decide whether Hatch is moved back to a prison, to a halfway house or returned to home confinement.
