The federal Bureau of Prisons has reassigned former Gov. George Ryan to a prison in central Wisconsin to serve his racketeering and fraud sentence, his attorneys confirmed Friday.
The prison in Oxford, Wis., where various politicians, mobsters and assorted other big shots from Chicago have served time, is considerably closer to Chicago than his original assignment in Duluth, Minn.
"Both Oxford and Duluth are fine institutions and its not a matter of choosing one over the other, but the travel time to Oxford is better for his family," said Ryan's attorney, former Gov. James R. Thompson, who sought the move.
Ryan, 73, was convicted by a …
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