PANEL: TYSON MUST REMAIN IN SOLITARY.

Byline: Associated Press

Mike Tyson will spend another 20 days in solitary confinement for throwing a TV set in a jailhouse recreation room.

A two-member disciplinary panel on Wednesday ordered Tyson to remain isolated from other prisoners until March 16. He has been in solitary confinement since his outburst Friday.

He also has lost phone and visiting privileges and won't be allowed to participate in group activities at the Montgomery County jail. He will be in an isolated environment for 23 hours a day.

Tyson, accompanied by a senior jail staffer, appeared before the panel after officials accused him of disorderly conduct, destroying property and assaulting a correctional officer who was allegedly struck with shards of plastic from the shattered TV set. He was not represented by an attorney because lawyers are not allowed at the proceedings.

Before his outburst, Tyson had been serving a one-year sentence in a cell among the jail's regular population of inmates who are awaiting trial or serving sentences of 18 months or less.

At a news conference after the hearing, an emotionally upset Monica Tyson urged a review of her husband's punishment. She said that two days before the outburst, jail officials reduced and then eliminated the dosage of Zoloft prescribed by his therapist, Dr. Richard Goldberg, to control the boxer's depression.

``Dr. Goldberg spoke to the therapist at the detention center and informed him that it would be medically inadvisable to discontinue the medication. However, the decision was implemented,'' she said.