After being in and out of prisons over the past week, Samuel Kent, a former federal judge in Galveston, was released on Aug. 1, according to one of his attorneys, to head to West Texas, where he will finish his 33-month prison sentence at home.

“He’s on the last three months of his sentence and was finally granted home confinement,” says Kent’s lawyer Dick DeGuerin, a partner in DeGuerin & Dickson in Houston.