NO EARLY RELEASE DATE: Buju Banton
CONTRARY TO information circulating on social media claiming that Buju Banton has received another discount on his prison sentence, official records indicate that the reggae superstar will remain locked up until 2018.
Rumours have been flying that Banton is set for early release and could be sent home by next Christmas.
But the US Federal Bureau of Prisons indicated on its website on Sunday (June 12) that the artist is still slated to be released on December 8, 2018.
Buju, who is serving 10 years for drug-related charges, was initially set to be released in February 2019.
He is serving time in CI MCRAE, which is a contracted correctional institution operated by a private corporation.
The Jamaican-born star was convicted in February 2011, days after he won a Grammy award for his work titled Before the Dawn.
The singer was arrested in 2010 following a sting by the Drug Enforcement Administration at a Sarasota warehouse.
Banton was targeted by investigators starting in July 2009 when, returning with his band from a European tour, he sat next to an informant on a flight from Madrid to Miami. Authorities subsequently recorded numerous conversations in which the two men talked about drug trafficking.
