Baltimore (WBFF) — According to online court records, Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been released from federal prison in Alabama.

She has now been assigned to a Federal Residential Reentry Management Program.

The now 71 year old Pugh was sentenced to

three years in federal prison,

followed by three years of supervised release,

on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States,

and two counts of tax evasion related to her book “Healthy Holly.”

Last week, Pugh’s attorney, Steven Silverman told FOX45,

“We’ve been doing everything possible to get her home as soon as possible the expectation is that she’ll be home sooner rather than later.”

According to the Federal Bureau of Prison records, Pugh is set to finish her sentence in January of 2023.

Sources tell FOX45 she’s expected to serve the remainder of her sentence under home confinement.

BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) – The First Step Act was enacted by Congress in 2018 and may just save former mayor Catherine Pugh from spending three full years in prison.

The law allows certain elderly federal inmates to be eligible for home confinement before their sentence expires.

Pugh’s attorney Steve Silverman says in order to be eligible you must be at least 60-years-old.

Pugh will be 70 this month.

Silverman says you must be convicted of a non-violent crime and have served two thirds of your sentence before you can be released to home detention.

Silverman says Pugh will also be eligible to earn good behavior credits by participating in certain programs in prison.

“She’s the poster child for this. She’s the ideal candidate for the First Step Act,” he said. “We believe she will be eligible for home detention somewhere between 14 and 18 months of incarceration,” he said.

Silverman says under the First Step Act Pugh will have to be placed at a prison within 500 miles of her home.

He says she has requested to go to the federal female prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia.

It’s the same prison Martha Stuart spent time in.

Pugh could also be sent to a female federal prison in Connecticut according to Silverman.

Baltimore’s disgraced former mayor who already has been sentenced to three years in federal prison in a scandal over her “Healthy Holly” children’s books touting exercise and nutrition is expected to plead guilty to a state perjury charge, Maryland’s state prosecutor confirmed Tuesday.

Catherine Pugh is expected to enter the guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge at a June 19 hearing in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, said State Prosecutor Charlton Howard.

“As indicated in the order of the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court scheduling a plea hearing on June 19th, I anticipate Ms. Pugh will enter a guilty plea on that date,” Howard wrote in an email. “Of course, Ms. Pugh may change her mind prior to, or during the course of, the June 19th hearing, as is the right of every criminal defendant.”

Pugh, a Democrat, is scheduled to report to federal prison later this month. Last year, she pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges relating to her self-published children’s book called “Healthy Holly.”

The perjury charge relates to Pugh’s failure to disclose her business interest in Healthy Holly, LLC on her financial disclosure forms when she was a Maryland state senator.

Catherine Pugh faces up to 10 years in prison on the perjury charge.

Andrew White, Pugh’s attorney, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

Pugh served in the Maryland Senate from 2007 to 2016, when she was elected Baltimore’s mayor. She resigned as mayor under pressure last year as authorities investigated bulk sales of her paperbacks, which netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Pugh earned at least $345,000 in income in 2016 through sales of her books, but failed to mention her ownership in financial disclosure forms, which are filed with the Maryland State Ethics Commission and signed under the penalties of perjury, according to the state prosecutor’s office.