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Disgraced former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been sprung from federal prison early on furlough — while he awaits a decision from the agency on whether he can serve out the remainder of his term in home confinement, a report said Tuesday.

Silver — who has served less than a year of his 6 1/2-year sentence — was cut loose from Otisville Prison, in Orange County, New York, and released to his home while awaiting the decision, a source familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.

Silver was finally sentenced to more than six years in prison last July — after dodging jail for more than five years after he was first convicted in Manhattan federal court via a series of appeals.

His first conviction was fully overturned in 2017 after an appeals court ruled the jury’s instructions did not meet a new definition of “corruption.”

The Democrat was then retried, convicted on all counts and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018 for accepting nearly $4 million in bribes in two separate schemes.

He remained free on bail while appealing the ruling — but an appeals upheld his conviction on four of the charges, agreeing he illegally steered two real estate developers, Glenwood Management and the Witkoff Group, to do tax business with a law firm that gave Silver hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In exchange, Silver backed legislation that benefited developers, including provisions in 2011 rent legislation that were designed to benefit Glenwood.

“This was corruption pure and simple,” Judge Caproni told the disgraced ex-speaker at his last sentencing.