安然公司的前CEO杰弗里·斯基林曾在史上最大的公司詐騙案中扮演了重要角色，如今他出獄了。

斯基林起初因其在安然公司丑聞中的角色被判入獄24年（該刑期在2013年減到14年），現在他已經離開了他稱之為家的阿拉巴馬州最低安全級別聯邦監獄。據美國聯邦監獄管理局的記錄來看，他被重新安置在德克薩斯州圣安東尼奧的一個“居住性復歸中心”，也即一般所謂的中途之家。

斯基林在獄中待了11年，是安然案被告中服役時間最長的。（排第二的是安然前首席財務官安德魯·法斯托，他在獄中待了5年后獲釋。）

在經過4個月的審訊后，斯基林于2006年5月被定罪。2002年時，斯基林是全美第五大公司的領導人，但一份獨立的審查發現，安然公司的高管們利用不入賬的合伙公司和虛增股民利潤的方式竊取了成百萬上千萬美元。安然員工和其他相關人被鼓動投資于公司股票，結果當安然倒閉時，數千人名下的數十億美元的退休金憑空消失。斯基林用他的行政套房換了一處監禁地，在那里他若買杯咖啡都可能被單獨關禁閉。

斯基林出獄后將做什么還不清楚，但被收容在中途之家的人一般會獲得工作，并在最多3年內要向緩刑監督官匯報。中途之家的設立是為了幫助出獄者重新適應現代社會和重建家庭關系。

相較于斯基林入獄之時，當今世界已大為不同，他入獄時這世上還沒有ipad、Spotify、Kickstarter或者優步這些玩意。（財富中文網）

譯者：宣峰

Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron CEO who played a role in one of the biggest corporate fraud cases in history, is out of prison.

Skilling, who was originally sentenced to a 24-year term for his part in the company’s collapse (the sentence was reduced to 14 years in 2013), has left the Alabama minimum security federal prison he has called home. He has re-located to a “residential reentry management” facility, more commonly known as a halfway house, in San Antonio, Texas, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons records.

Skilling served 11 years in prison, the longest of any Enron defendant. (Ranking second is former Enron CFO Andy Fastow, who was released after about five years in prison.)

He was originally convicted in May 2006, after a four-month trial. In 2002, Skilling was the head of America’s fifth-largest company, but an independent review found executives pocketed millions of dollars from off-the-book partnerships and inflated profits to shareholders. Employees and others were encouraged to invest in the company’s stock, meaning when Enron collapsed, billions of dollars in retirement savings (as well as the jobs) of thousands of people vanished. Skilling exchanged the executive suite for a place where he risked solitary confinement if he bought a cup of coffee.

What Skilling will do next is uncertain, but inmates of halfway houses traditionally get jobs and report to probation officers for up to three years. The facilities are meant to help prisoners reacclimate to modern society and reestablish relationships with their families.

It’s a much different world than the one Skilling left. When he first reported to prison there was no such thing as the iPad, Spotify, Kickstarter or Uber.