T.I. SENT BACK FOR HAVING REALITY TV MEETING ON HIS BUS!

Rapper T.I. blew a prison furlough last week after he copped to chatting about business with his manager and reality TV producers while headed to an Atlanta halfway house, prison officials said.

A federal prison report obtained by the Daily News claims T.I. was only supposed to be in contact with his wife during the 10-hour trip last Wednesday - not dishing with others about his upcoming book and reality show.

Prison officials had allowed him to travel from an Arkansas federal prison to the Atlanta halfway house, where he was set to finish his 11-month sentence for violating his gun case probation.

But now T.I. - real name Clifford Harris, Jr. - is cooling his heels in an Atlanta federal prison, where he will likely remain until his release on Sept. 29.

"Inmate Harris had not been authorized to be in contact or be in the presence of his manager or others, except his wife, during his travel," the Federal Bureau of Prisons report states.

His lawyer said the discussions were informal.

"He did not conduct business; there was no violation," lawyer Steve Sadow told The News. "We have submitted two letters, from the producer and manager on the bus, both of [whom] indicated they did not conduct business. They are close friends, and they were asked to come by his wife."

But the report says the Grammy winner admitted that during the trip he discussed a new reality series and a book with those individuals.

Yet Sadow went a step further, accusing prison officials of being "disingenuous."

"T.I. was never told that only his wife was permitted to travel with him and was never instructed or directed to list each and every person that would be traveling with him," he told The News.

"It is disingenuous at best for [prison officials] to see the private bus, escort T.I. to the private bus, watch him enter the private bus, observe the bus driver and then say the only people authorized to be on the private bus are T.I. and his wife."

One of the business contacts who participated in the bus powwow went to bat for the re-jailed rapper.

"It was clear to me that Mr. Harris believed that I was permitted to be with him on the trip back to Atlanta because I had been authorized to visit him," reality mogul Brian Sher, the CEO of Category 5 Entertainment, said in his letter. "No business was conducted with Mr. Harris."

T.I.'s wife, Tameka Cottle, wrote in another letter that they decided the bus would be safer than a private vehicle that might tempt paparazzi to swarm.

T.I.'s legal woes date back to the seven months the 30-year-old spent in jail in 2009 for trying to buy unregistered guns and silencers from undercover federal agents.

The "Live Your Life" rapper was serving three years of supervised probation when authorities say his Maybach made an illegal U-turn on Sunset Boulevard in September 2010. The cop who pulled him over reported that "a strong odor of marijuana" wafted from the vehicle, prompting a search.

Officers found Ecstasy pills and arrested the singer and his wife on suspicion of felony drug possession.

No charges were filed against Cottle, but T.I. picked up a probation violation and got sent back to the slammer.

Sadow said he's petitioning for a prison hearing on the bus debacle, in a bid to get T.I. back his furlough. He said other legal action is being considered.

"But to be completely realistic, we're running out of time. Sept. 29 is his last date in custody, period," Sadow said.




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