NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman released from prison early to halfway house

NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman has been released early from federal lockup — less than 20 months into her three-and-a-half year sentence for playing a senior role in Keith Raniere’s twisted sex cult.

Salzman, 69 — who in July asked a judge to free her from prison over breast cancer concerns — has been transferred from a Hazelton, West Virginia lockup to a halfway house in Pittsburgh, Pa., according to federal Bureau of Prisons records.

Salzman had asked Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis to immediately release her after she claimed she had been waiting 16 1/2 weeks to receive an MRI following a concerning ultrasound from March 23.

Garaufis at a July hearing said he didn’t want the prison term “to turn into a death sentence” for Salzman, who had two prior occurrences of breast cancer in 2011 and 2018.

The judge ordered the BOP to conduct the exam on Salzman.

It was not immediately clear what the results of the MRI were and whether Salzman’s release — first reported by the Albany Time-Union — was connected to her health concerns.

Her lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment Sunday.

But Salzman was eligible for compassionate release on September 7 to either home confinement or a halfway house if she stayed out of trouble under the 2018 First Step Act.

According to BOP records, her current release date from custody is June 17, 2024 — which is nearly nine months ahead of the end of her 42-month sentence.

Salzman was handed the prison term in September 2021 after pleading guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy for hacking into the emails of NXIVM’s opponents and destroying evidence that could’ve been used against the Albany-based cult.

She began serving out her sentence in January 2022.

Salzman has maintained she new nothing about NXIVM’s clandestine sex ring known as DOS, in which women were starved, branded with Raniere’s initials and forced to have sex with him.

Raniere, 63, was sentenced to 120 years behind bars in 2019 for running the twisted secret society.

Another high ranking cult member, “Smallville” actress Allison Mack was also released to a halfway house on July 5 after serving less than two of her three year sentence for helping to brainwash women into becoming sex slaves for the Svengali like leader.

The BOP didn’t immediately return a request for comment Sunday.