December 26, 2006
Dan Morales in halfway house

Former Attorney General Dan Morales is out of the pokey and in a halfway house.


Morales was transferred last month from a federal prison in Texarkana to a halfway house in San Antonio, according to his brother, Michael Morales.

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The regional office of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in Dallas would not say when Dan Morales, 50, was transferred from Texarkana, but acknowledged he was in a halfway house in the region covered by the bureau’s Community Corrections Office in San Antonio.

“The last 10 percent of the sentence - not greater than six months - can be served at a halfway house,” said Mitch Huffman, acting regional public information officer for the BOP.

Speaking generally, Huffman said inmates approved for transfer from prisons to halfway houses usually get sent back near the community from which they came.

“You want to get them as close to home as possible,” Huffman said.


Looking back in my archives, Morales was sentenced to four years in October of 2003 after copping a plea in July. If there's really less than six months left on his sentence, I presume he either got some credit for good behavior or for time already served. I don't know how these things work, so if someone can clarify, please do.

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