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Elizabeth Holmes: Inside the Routine at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas

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I really don't get why people are obsessed with every aspect of this case, down to Holmes' daily routine in prison. She's gone to prison and will stay there for a long time, case closed. She's even lucky she ended up in a relatively good prison, not the hellholes called USPs that violent offenders go to.

Its because a billionaire went to prison. The justice system finally has teeth again.

To be fair, she also stole money from other billionaires... so the system has teeth if you steal money from other rich people

Only because the victims in this case were billionaires too. Remember, she was convicted for defrauding investors, not because of the harm she done to poor patients.

Walgreens put her technology in their stores without doing any due diligence to confirm the accuracy of their tests and none of those executives are in jail for the harm done to poor patients either.

Yeah but if you look at the conditions of that prison you'll think twice about that. The fact that white collar crime gets a slap on the wrist incentivizes more white collar crime.

*Fake paper billionaire went to prison. All that thin air billions evaporated as soon as Theranos was exposed.

And importantly: after cheating the US governments' most trusted individuals-turned-investors plus a couple other billionaires out of several hundred million dollars.

I mean she just totally misunderstood the game: you cheat the poor in the US. Not the rich. Strange that such an intelligent woman missed that.

My pet theory (and this will probably trigger a lot of people) is that it's because she's a woman. She did some particularly heinous stuff, but the US consciousness seems to have an appetite to see disgraced women in power suffer. Martha Stewart is another example that comes to mind.

People are generally interested in what happens to celebrities / public figures.

It's because people are sick and tired of the wealthy committing crimes and getting away with it either entirely, or receiving only a slap on the wrist.

I don't know if 11 years is a proper sentence for what she did, but it makes me wonder about all the others who defrauded even more and just got a slap on the wrist

I have always felt that the 11 year sentence seemed a bit heavy-handed.

I try to think "At what number would I have been upset." For example, 6 months would have been nothing. 25 years would be too much.

I start to think the sentence that make sense is around 7-8 years. But I didn't have money in it, so what do I know.

I have always been interested in routines in general, and the prison routines of some famous people (political prisoners etc) can be fascinating.

This doesn't seem to present anything special and is more "we read the prison's handbook."

I have been to prison. No matter what they say it is a violent place. Even the “minimum security” ones.

You don’t get to choose your prison. You don’t get to choose your bunk mate. They are racially segregated and there is a pecking order.

She did get a larger than expected sentence. Probably to send an example. I can say. But I believe judges are adversely affected by media as well.

Over 2 million of the 20 Million PPP loans were fraudulent but fewer than 100 people went to prison.

Can wealthy people influence where they are placed?

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