Former Lake County Sheriff John Buncich was released from a federal prison in Springfield, Missouri and moved to a halfway house in Chicago on Tuesday, according to officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy said he couldn’t comment specifically on Buncich’s move, but said generally release dates are calculated based on several factors.

Every inmate earns good conduct time, which is up to 54 days per year of their sentence, Murphy said. Further, inmates can earn time credits after successful completion of approved evidence-based recidivism reduction programs or productive activities, he said.

In January 2018, Buncich, 79, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison after he was convicted of bribery and wire fraud, among o

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