Foster has declined to comment on Hinckley since 1981.
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He “may only reside in the community with his mother at her home in Williamsburg, Virginia for at least the first full year of convalescent leave”.
Sixty-one-year-old Hinckley was among those scheduled for discharge, reports said.
Until Saturday, Hinckley was spending 17 days each month at his mother’s home.
Three other men, including Reagan press secretary James Brady, were badly wounded in Hinckley’s attack.
The judge also said Hinckley could be returned to St. Elizabeths if he relapses or violates the terms of his release.
Hinckley’s lawyer, Barry Levine, says his client will be a “citizen about whom we can all be proud”.
Before departing, Hinckley walked around and got into a auto with some people wishing him good luck, the worker said.
The man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981 has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good.
But in a statement obtained by PEOPLE, officials with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute criticized the decision. Hinckley was aquitted 21 June 1982 after a jury found him mentally unstable. Hinckley began stalking Foster – who played a child prostitute in the film – when she entered Yale University, where he enrolled himself into a writing class and would slip poems and messages under her door.
The judge this summer ruled Hinckley, who he said is suffering from arthritis and high blood pressure, has been in remission for at least 20 years. But, unable to win her over, he then devised a odd scheme to kill the president, in apparent bid to impress Foster. He hadn’t exhibited symptoms of his major depression or psychotic disorder in two decades, Judge Friedman added.
Though it once housed as many as 8,000 patients – many of them indigent – the aging facility is being phased out and now holds only a few hundred.
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A set of restrictions will equally apply to Hinckley’s daily activities and leisure time.
