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T.I. Is Released From Prison

5:45 p.m. · December 22, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

T.I., who has been serving a prison sentence at Forrest City Prison in Arkansas since May 26, was released Tuesday morning, to a halfway house in Atlanta. There, he will serve out the remainder of his sentence.

According to the lead defense attorney on T.I.'s case, Steve Sadow, who spoke with XXLMag.com, "A halfway house is more along the lines of a residential dormitory," than a prison. Sadow continued, "You live within this house that is broken into areas for living, and you are permitted to leave during the day for certain reasons of which would be employment, medical reasons, things of that nature, and you return to the halfway house in the evening. So it’s a restriction on your liberty but it’s a way for you to reenter into society and not be confined within a jail type institution 24-hours a day." That makes a lot of sense. Successfully reintergrating into society after a 7-month prison sentence has got to be the primary concern for any multi-platinum recording artist, right? [Nah Right]