Jon Burge, former police commander convicted of perjury, to be released from prison

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jon Burge, a former Chicago police commander who's serving a sentence for lying about the torture of dozens of men by officers, is getting out of prison.

Burge is scheduled to be released to a halfway house Thursday. He was serving a four and a half year sentence in federal prison after being convicted of perjury in connection with testimony he gave in a civil case involving torture allegations.

He and his officers are accused of torturing dozens of men into giving false confessions during the 1970s and 1980s.