‘Survivor’ winner asks to finish sentence at home

BOSTON—“Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is appealing a judge’s decision to keep him in prison until the end of his sentence for tax evasion.

Hatch was convicted in 2006 of failing to pay taxes on his $1 million prize for winning the CBS reality show.

He had been serving the final portion of his 51-month sentence in home confinement at his sister’s house in Newport, when he was sent back to jail last month for giving unauthorized media interviews.

Last week, a federal judge denied his request to be released from the Barnstable County prison in Bourne and finish his sentence in home confinement.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a notice of appeal Monday, asking the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case.