 T.I. was officially released from prison in Arkansas on Tuesday (December 22), after serving nearly six months behind bars for federal weapons charges.
The Atlanta rapper will now be confined to a halfway house near his hometown of Atlanta for another two to three months before he'll taste real freedom however.
T.I.'s lawyer, Steve Sadow, told XXL that he'll have more freedom under his new living conditions.
"A halfway house is more along the lines of a residential dormitory," he said. "You live within this house that is broken into areas for living, and you are permitted to leave during the day for certain reasons of which would be employment, medical reasons, things of that nature, and you return to the halfway house in the evening.
"It's a restriction on your liberty, but it's a way for you to re-enter into society and not be confined within a jail type institution 24-hours a day."
T.I. was sentenced to a year and a day for illegal firearms possession and for possessing a gun as a convicted felon.
He reported to Arkansas' Forrest City Prison back in May to begining serving his time.
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