Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been released from the Coleman Federal Prison after completing less than half of her sentence behind bars.
Brown, 73, has been released to due to concerns about the Coronavirus. She suffers from high blood pressure, sleep apnea, low estrogen, acid reflux and lives without a thyroid. She had filed for a compassionate release.
She will serve the remainder of her sentence under home confinement.
Brown, who served in Congress for more than two decades, was sentenced in January 2018 to five years in prison on 18 counts involving taking money from a charity and lying on her taxes.
