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CBS News/AP
Former Conn. Governor Released From Prison
Feb. 10, 2006
(AP) Former Gov. John G. Rowland left a federal prison camp Friday after serving more than 10 months for a corruption charge that forced him from office in 2004.
Rowland, 48, was released from Loretto Federal Correctional Institution in western Pennsylvania at about 5:20 a.m., said Ruth Bracken, a prison spokeswoman.
He will be fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet and placed under house arrest for four months. He also must perform 300 hours of community service.
The three-term Republican governor pleaded guilty in December 2004 to one count of conspiracy to steal honest services, a combination of mail and tax fraud. He admitted accepting more than $100,000 in vacations and chartered trips to Las Vegas from a state contractor and a charter jet company that received a state tax break.
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