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December 22nd, 2009 at 7:22 pm

T.I. Released from Prison to Halfway House in Atlanta

Multi-Grammy Award winning rapper T.I. was released from prison to a halfway house in Atlanta, Georgia on Dec. 22, 2009, according to media reports confirmed by his attorney.

The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, Jr., was sentenced to a year and a day of prison in a plea bargain agreement, for felony weapons charges dating back to 2007. He served seven months of the sentence at a low-security penitentiary in Forrest City, Arkansas and has now been moved to a halfway house; Dismas Charities Atlanta West, a correctional center which, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, is near Fulton County Airport.

The newspaper quotes his attorney Steve Sadow as saying that the arrangement is “not out of the ordinary.” He will remain at the facility for up to three months to fulfill his Bureau of Prisons sentence. Thereafter he must complete just under 500 hours of community service and approximately 23 days of home incarceration. [Source: T.I. released to halfway house]

Steve Sadow told XXLMag.com

“A halfway house is more along the lines of a residential dormitory,” he explained of the rap star’s new stipulations. “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.”

Source: XXcLusive: T.I. Released from Prison Today, Lawyer Confirms