O'Neal moved to rehab jail

LOS ANGELES, May 21 (UPI) -- Redmond O'Neal has been moved to a jail specially equipped to serve drug offenders, a spokesman for the L.A. County Sheriff Department said Thursday.

O'Neal is the 24-year-old son of celebrity couple Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was recently ordered to complete a 12-month rehabilitation program at his sentencing for probation violation and felony drug possession.

The younger O'Neal was transferred to the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic Wednesday afternoon where he will begin his "aggressive drug and alcohol rehabilitation program," Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore told Usmagazine.com.

"It is a jail," Whitmore added. "We have several jails in the south facility -- he is in a compound area of it."

O'Neal had been held at the Twin Towers prison in Los Angeles since early last month.