The first headlines had it on a supervised home basis. What happened?
I was wondering that too... and now wonder which one is the real story? How will we ever know?
This post says 2 years of supervised release. So...which one is correct?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3425173/posts
WGN, Crain’s rush to get Hastert sentence all wrong
It looks like the error was a (typical) media snowball. I can tell you from personal experience that newspeople are among the laziest on the planet; from that perspective this is completely understandable.