Survivor winner Richard Hatch was taken to jail yesterday just hours after his Today show interview with Matt Lauer aired.

Richard Hatch was arrested and taken to the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office in Bourne, Massachusetts – he had been living under house arrest in his sister’s Newport, Rhode Island home.

Richard Hatch had maintained he had permission to do the Today show interview, but seems the authorities don’t agree and believe he had inproper contact with the public.

Richard Hatch said during the Today show interview that he believes he’s innocent of the tax evasion charges against him, saying that he went to prison because he’s a homosexual.

Details about Hatch’s return to jail are sketchy, with a Sheriff’s Office spokesman telling MSNBC.com: “We just don’t have the same kind of details on the federal inmates we book as we do with the regular city and county inmates. It’s got to be that he violated some kind of condition. There’s no other reason this would have happened.”

Richard Hatch was scheduled for house arrest release on October 7.