Rapper Fetty Wap has been released ahead of schedule from federal prison, nearly three years after being convicted for his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy.
The artist was freed on Thursday, January 8, almost 11 months before his original release date set for December 2026. In May 2023, a New York court sentenced Fetty Wap to six years behind bars, followed by five years of supervised release.
According to confirmation from a spokesperson for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the rapper was transferred out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota, on Wednesday. The spokesperson explained that he was reassigned to a different form of custody.
He was “transferred on January 7, 2026, from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Sandstone to community confinement” overseen by the BOP’s Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management Office, the spokesperson said in a statement.
Following the transfer, Fetty Wap has been placed under home confinement, a detail later confirmed by his publicist in a U.S. news outlet.
