24 January 2013 :

Ex-Illinois governor George Ryan set for halfway house after 6 years in prison. For the last 6 years, the former governor has been a federal prisoner.
When he leaves the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute next week, he will be traveling to a Salvation Army halfway house in Chicago.
Ryan will be required to take mandatory classes on such skills as opening a bank account, writing a check, and making out a resume. It sounds ridiculous for a former governor but is par for the course in the Bureau of Prisons' one-size-fits-all approach to corrections.
After orientation, it will be time for the former Springfield dealmaker to go to work. Every halfway house resident is required to have a job and to work 40 hours each week.
Ryan will have to sign out when he departs in the morning and call when he arrives at his job site. He is to be back at the Salvation Army facility at Ashland and Monroe by 7 p.m. every evening. He will have to bring back a paycheck every week or 2 to give 25 % of your gross to the halfway house.
Eventually, perhaps as early as 3 weeks or so, Ryan will be allowed to begin transitioning to his Kankakee home. But even then, he will very much remain under Bureau of Prisons control. They'll call him between 8:30 and 10:00, between 11:00 and 1:00, and between 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning every single night. In 2003, two days before leaving office, Ryan commuted every death sentence to life in prison without parole. In all, 164 people were removed from death row.