Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said currently incarcerated U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was transferred on Friday from a North Carolina federal prison to a prison facility in Montgomery, Alabama. The disgraced lawmaker could also be closer to getting out of prison earlier than originally expected.

The former congressman reportedly asked to be transferred to the Alabama facility following a stir up with North Carolina prison officials and being placed in solitary confinement. Jackson had also asked to be sent to the Alabama prison camp in order to take part in its nine-month drug and alcohol treatment program, something the North Carolina prison does not offer.

Jackson was sentenced to 30 months in prison for misusing some $750,000 in campaign funds. Based on good behavior, Jackson could be released from federal prison in December of next year. If Jackson successfully finishes the residential drug and alcohol treatment program, however, he could be eligible for getting out of prison in June of next year, CBS 2 reported.

But the former congressman could also be discharged from prison by the close of 2014 if he is allowed to serve the remaining six months of his sentence in a halfway house, according to the news station.