Former Bury North MP David Chaytor has been moved to an open prison, just two weeks after being jailed.
He has been switched from tough Wandsworth to Spring Hill open jail, Bucks in a move some officers have said was a "fast track".
Labour MP for Bury North Chaytor, 61, of Todmorden, West Yorks, falsely claimed £22,000 in expenses. He will be allowed days out and trips home under the new arrangement.
Chaytor became the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the expenses scandal which has rocked Westminster.
He submitted bogus invoices to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT services and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.
But the properties were owned by him and his mother, and he did not pay out any of his own money, Southwark Crown Court in London heard.
Chaytor, of Lumbutts, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of false accounting between November 2005 and January 2008.
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