FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) -- Convicted former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia is one step closer to freedom.

Correia, 33, has been moved out of federal prison in Ashland, Ky., and into the Federal Bureau of Prisons Residential Reentry Management program. The designation traditionally means an inmate has been sent to a halfway house near where they will be living once their sentence expires.

An email to the BOP seeking more details has not been immediately returned.

Correia was sentenced to six years in prison in 2021 after a jury convicted him of shaking down prospective marijuana business owners for bribes, defrauding investors in his now-defunct app SnoOwl and lying to the IRS.

The jury found him guilty of 21 of the 24 criminal offenses, which included extortion, wire fraud, conspirac

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