Released Early From Prison, T.I. Heads to Correctional Center

Tue, 22 December 2009 23:30:26 ET

Confirming the release of the 'Dead and Gone' hitmaker, his attorney states the rapper is expected to report to a halfway house in Atlanta, where he will spend the next two or three months.

T.I. may have been released from federal prison on Tuesday morning, December 22, but he will still serve the remainder of his reduced sentence. Providing the confirmation of the "Live Your Life" hitmaker's release, attorney Steve Sadow told XXL magazine that the rapper is expected to report to a halfway house in the Atlanta area later in the day.

"He was released this morning from his place of incarceration in Arkansas," the lawman detailed on T.I.'s release from jail. "As I understand it, he's on his way back to the Atlanta area. He has to report to a halfway house in Atlanta sometime this evening. And he will then spend somewhere between the next two or three months in a halfway house, ending his Bureau of Prison sentence."

Sadow further added being sent to the halfway house means the rapper can now take a leave to do his work. "A halfway house is more along the lines of a residential dormitory," he explained. "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."

On March 27, 2009, T.I. was sentenced to 366-day behind bars for felony weapons charges stemming from his October 2007 arrest after he tried to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover federal agents. He began serving his sentence in May and was actually expected to be released on March 10, 2010.

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