Richard Hatch, reality TV star has started a nine month prison sentence for violating the terms of his probation for tax evasion.
He was convicted in 2006 after turning himself in to the authorities for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million (£670,000) cash prize he won after winning the first season of America's Survivor.
The show winner completed a three-year federal sentence for the crime and walked free from a Masachusetts prison in October 2009. After failing to file his 2001 tax returns he was ordered back to jail this year.
Hatch checked himself into a Brooklyn detention centre in New York last Friday. The centre which holds around 1,000 male and female inmates has reported to have housed the likes of Al Sharpton, an American radio talk show host and Peter and John Gotti.
The star had previously made a unsuccesful bid to the public to raise money to pay off his debt and was recently fired on the TV show Celebrity Apprentice.
He is due to be released on 12 December.