HoustonChronicle.com: Former KKK leader Duke out of prison Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has left a federal prison in Big Spring and will spend some time in an undisclosed halfway house in Louisiana. 'Mr. David Duke was released today, and that's all I can really say,' John Ybarra, prison spokesman, said Thursday. Duke spokesman Roy Armstrong said in a story in Friday's Midland Reporter-Telegram that the former Louisiana state representative left Big Spring on a Greyhound bus. Armstrong said Duke is scheduled to spend a month in the halfway house. In a plea bargain finalized in December 2002, Duke pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a gross income of $18,831 in 1998, rather than the actual $65,034, and to bilking supporters. Duke turned himself in at Big Spring in April 2003. Duke was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $10,000 for bilking his supporters and cheating on his taxes. After completing his sentence, Duke was scheduled to have two years of supervised release.