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Photos of Felicity Huffman in prison have just emerged as she begins her sentence for bribing an admissions consultant $15,000 to change her daughter’s SAT scores after the test was finished.
Huffman is just one of 51 people, famous and not, that have been wrapped up in the admissions scandal. 30 other wealthy parents were all accused of cheating and bribing their teens into various schools across the country.
Prison is hard for even the toughest criminal, but this Academy Award-Nominated actress, who is 56, doesn’t seem to have too much to worry about.
She is serving her 14-day sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, which is about 25 miles southeast of Oakland, or five and a half hours from the Los Angeles area, where Huffman lives with her family.
By all accounts, this does not seem like an institution for hardened criminals, which is good – no one would ever accuse Huffman of being one. This minimum-security prison allows visitors from 8 am to 2 pm on Saturday and Sunday, and offers a variety of activities for inmates.
Prisoners are allowed to work on various crafts and skills while they serve their time, including crocheting, origami, or even scrapbooking. While her green jumpsuit isn’t anything to write home about, it certainly isn’t the worst.
Huffman entered jail on Tuesday and is expected to be released on October 27.
The pictures were snapped over the weekend when her husband, William H. Macy, and their youngest daughter, Georgia Grace, 17, came to visit her.
There was a rumor going around when news of the incident first leaked that Macy was actually the one to do the bribing, but Huffman was taking the fall. After she pled guilty to the charges in May, it didn’t seem to matter.
If you’re fuzzy on the details that landed Huffman behind bars, let us fill you in real quick.
Huffman was one of 51 people that an FBI probe, called “Operation Varsity Blues”, found to have bribed someone along the way to get their child into a prestigious college.
Huffman paid William Rick Singer $15,000 to give Sophia Grace, the couple’s oldest child, extra time to complete the test. Singer also went and changed Sophia’s answers to the correct ones, improperly inflating her SAT scores.
Another famous name tied up in this? Aunt Becky, of Full House fame. Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are still battling the accusation that they paid a staggering $500,000 to get their two daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade, into USC.
Reportedly, they snuck them in as recruits for the USC’s crew time… despite neither girl having ever participated in the sport before.
