Jesse Jackson Jr. to be released from Baltimore halfway house

Sunday, June 21, 2015
BALTIMORE (WLS) -- Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is expected to walk out of a Baltimore, Maryland, halfway house Monday.

Jackson has been there for last three months, after spending 17 months in federal prison. He will spend the rest of his sentence on house arrest.
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It is unclear if he will come back to the Chicago area.

Jackson is serving his federal sentence, after a 2013 conviction of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign money on luxury items for himself and his family.
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