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What life is like at the women's prison where Elizabeth Holmes will likely go
SF Gate ^ | 5/23/2023 | By Katie Dowd

Posted on 05/23/2023 1:24:36 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

What does an average day look like?

Wake-up is at 6 a.m. every day, according to FPC Bryan’s “Inmate Admission & Orientation Handbook,” and all inmates must be counted at least five times daily in official roll calls. Inmates must make their beds and clean up their cells; the unit with the best weekly “sanitation rating” gets called first for meals, while the unit with the worst hygiene comes in last.

All inmates who are able must have a “regular job assignment.” The prison offers business classes and even forklift training for women who would like to be certified.

Although the facility is minimum security, there are many limitations on what inmates can wear and own inside the prison. They are “prohibited from wearing any clothing not government-issued or purchased in the Commissary” and “may possess only one approved radio or MP3 player, and watch at a time.” Jewelry is limited to a “plain wedding band and an appropriate religious medallion and chain without stones,” but their value cannot exceed $100.

Holmes, who was once the subject of fawning — and then damning — magazine covers, can receive publications to her cell. FPC Bryan allows inmates to subscribe to magazines and newspapers. Inmates are also permitted to write to members of the media, although as with all correspondence, it is likely to be monitored.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: elizabethholmes; houston; prison; theranos
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A humbling fall from grace to be sure. Hopefully she'll emerge a better person. Based on her current attitude and behavior, I have my doubts.
1 posted on 05/23/2023 1:24:36 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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Remember when the media hailed her as one of the up-and-coming young leaders of her generation. lol


2 posted on 05/23/2023 1:32:14 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes
This, as the kids say, did not age well.


3 posted on 05/23/2023 1:33:46 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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While it doesn’t look like “hard time”, 11 years in the middle of your career will take a big bite out of her life. And since it’s Federal time, good behavior points are not accumulated as they are in State prison. She will do most of that 11 years.

That sucks for her.


4 posted on 05/23/2023 1:34:26 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: NohSpinZone

5 posted on 05/23/2023 1:39:08 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Remember when the media hailed her as one of the up-and-coming young leaders of her generation. lol

She fooled quite a few heavyweights. Although, it could be said that they wanted to believe.

6 posted on 05/23/2023 1:40:24 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Way too easy on someone who ruined and destroyed so many lives. She deserved the Bernie Madoff sentencing, but because vagina, she gets a fraction of it in a much nicer minimum security place.


7 posted on 05/23/2023 1:46:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I didn’t think they would lock her up


8 posted on 05/23/2023 1:54:07 PM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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“The prison offers business classes...”

Haha. Holmes can be a guest speaker on how to woo capital investors with nothing but some lipstick and a tall tale.


9 posted on 05/23/2023 1:56:12 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Pearls Before Swine

She fooled quite a few heavyweights.


Then again, they may have been touted as heavyweights, but, in reality (metaphorically speaking), would get their asses kicked by Barney Fife.

As an example, remember Robert Mueller was a hardened retired Marine veteran Captain who voted Republican all his life.


10 posted on 05/23/2023 1:59:25 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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“Holmes can be a guest speaker on how to woo capital investors with nothing but some lipstick and a tall tale.”

Or a split tail :)


11 posted on 05/23/2023 2:02:22 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: nesnah

I was thinking of George Schultz.


12 posted on 05/23/2023 2:06:51 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NohSpinZone

When she was about to start her prison sentence*, David Letterman had a skit on how Martha Stewart would be a good cellmate:

Her experience at throwing silverware at people would be an advantage during a prison riot,

it would be good to hear her shout “It’s not a good thing,
b-—h”, during a prison shower fight

and there’s nothing as good as freshly baked caramel chip cookies after a morning lice check.

* Mitch, his wife, and Nancy Pelosi and her husband and many more were never in prison despite insider trading allegations.


13 posted on 05/23/2023 2:11:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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will there be video of the prison shower fight?


14 posted on 05/23/2023 2:15:44 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Splat like a bug againts the top of the cruel glass ceiling. She had no business leading that enterprise. Her investors , sponsors, employees and the fawning media all proved themselves idiots.


15 posted on 05/23/2023 2:18:25 PM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Boogieman

Reminds me of Mel Brook’s “TheProducers”.


16 posted on 05/23/2023 2:21:35 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Vermont Lt

She will be out in time for her two kids to be about teenagers. I am sure they will be close.


17 posted on 05/23/2023 2:24:06 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Pearls Before Swine

...spot on.... the famous P. T. Barnum pegged it many years ago....

“Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.”

I was told a long time ago that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.... she scammed a lot of people...


18 posted on 05/23/2023 2:28:43 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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I’m sure they will have festive decorations (one per cell) at holiday time, and play Christmas music, like John Prine:

“It was Christmas in prison
And the food was real good
We had turkey and pistols
Carved out of wood”


19 posted on 05/23/2023 2:45:44 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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“Hopefully she’ll emerge a better person. Based on her current attitude and behavior, I have my doubts.”

holmes is a sociopath ... there’s no cure for that ...


20 posted on 05/23/2023 3:00:40 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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