Ryan’s new prison closer to Chicago

The federal Bureau of Prisons has reassigned former Gov. George H. Ryan to a prison in central Wisconsin to serve his racketeering and fraud sentence, his attorneys said in Chicago.

The prison in Oxford, Wis., where various politicians, mobsters and others from Chicago have served time, is considerably closer to the city than his original assignment in Duluth, Minn.

“Both Oxford and Duluth are fine institutions, and it’s not a matter of choosing one over the other, but the travel time to Oxford is better for his family,” said James R. Thompson, Ryan’s attorney, who sought the move.