The former NYPD officer convicted of brutalizing Abner Louima in 1997 has been released from prison early, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday.

Justin Volpe was transferred from a federal correctional institution in Minnesota to community confinement on April 13, the spokesperson said.

Volpe is now either in home confinement or staying at a halfway house overseen by the bureau's New York Residential Reentry Management Office, according to the spokesperson.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that Volpe told them he is living in a halfway house.

The 51-year-old is set to be fully released on Jan. 10, 2024, bureau records show. He was originally scheduled to be released in 2025.

Volpe was sentenced to 30 years in prison in December 1999, nearly two-and-a-half years after he and a group of NYPD officers brutally beat Louima at a Brooklyn police station.

Louima had been arrested outside a nightclub in East Flatbush after Volpe mistakenly accused him of punching him in the face during a brawl. During his trial, Volpe admitted to sexually assaulting Louima with a broomstick inside a bathroom at the stationhouse, leaving him with severe injuries.

Early on in the pandemic, Volpe requested an early release from prison, citing the risk of catching COVID-19, but a federal judge in February 2021 denied his request.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, which opposed early release for Volpe, declined to comment Tuesday.