T.I. to be Released from Prison in March

T.I. may be coming home sooner than expected. Speaking with the rapper’s lead attorney, Steve Sadow, XXLMag.com confirmed that T.I. is slated to be released from Arkansas’ Forrest City Prison in March 2010.


The release means Tip will serve roughly 10 months of his 366-day sentence. Per Sadow, Tip’s term will be shaved 54 days for good behavior and 14 days “that he had in custody prior to sentencing.”

“Now it is up to the [Federal] Bureau of Prisons to decide whether someone should be placed in a halfway house prior to the projected release date,” Sadow told XXL. “The Bureau of Prisons can do that and typically does it either a month before, or two months before… as much as six months before the projected release date.”

Sadow feels confident that the self-proclaimed, “king of the south” will be a free man sooner than later.

“We are hopeful that T.I. will be placed in a halfway house within the next month or so, which would be about two or three months before his projected release date,” Sadow explained. “We are hopeful for that, we do not have any control over it. The Bureau of Prisons makes that decision entirely on its own, they don’t share that decision with the public and they don’t share that decision with the defense lawyers. But we are hopeful because we know that T.I. has handled himself accordingly and conducted himself correctly while he has been incarcerated, we are hopeful that the Bureau of Prisons will give him two or three months of halfway house.”

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