Former Governor George Ryan is now back at home in Kankakee… after being released from federal prison and spending just hours at a halfway house in Chicago.
Federal prison officials say Ryan was not given special treatment with the decision to allow him to return home and serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement. They say that since Ryan is nearly 79 years old, it didn’t make sense to keep him in the halfway house.
Ryan will be required to stay in his house, except to report to a job, until his sentence is completed in July.
