Sister: ‘Survivor’ winner Richard Hatch sent back to jail again for granting interview

Sister: ‘Survivor’ winner jailed for interview

NEWPORT, R.I. — The sister of “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch says she thinks her brother was sent back to jail because he granted a news interview.

Kristin Hatch told “Today” on Wednesday that when a sheriff’s deputy came to bring her brother to the Barnstable County Jail in Massachusetts on Tuesday, she overheard him say that Hatch was being jailed because “he did an interview.”

Hatch is staying at his sister’s Newport, R.I. house while on home confinement.

In addition to Tuesday’s “Today” show interview, Hatch also granted interviews to WPRO-FM radio and WJAR-TV in Providence.

Hatch’s lawyer said Wednesday she still had not been given an explanation as to why he was arrested.

Hatch was convicted in 2006 for not paying taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the CBS reality show’s first season.