CHICAGO—Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will be released from a federal prison camp on Thursday and serve the final months of his sentence in a Washington, D.C. halfway house, according to a former House colleague.
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat and longtime mental health advocate, told USA TODAY that he spoke with Jackson while visiting him on Monday at a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala.
“I went in there to say hello and catch up and tell him that I wanted to be there for him when he came out,” said Kennedy, who stopped to see Jackson while travelling in the area. “And he told me, ‘Guess what? I’m going to be out in almost 48 hours.'”
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