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Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show.
The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the US Bureau of Prisons website.
Holmes’s sentence was reduced by more than four months, as her previous release date was set for 29 December 2032.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Holmes’s amended sentence to the Guardian but said he could not comment further due to “privacy, safety and security reasons” for inmates.
This is the second time that Holmes has had her sentence shortened. In July, was reduced by two years.
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
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That’s the way it was. Privilege, which just means ‘private law.’ Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
I mean certainly that’s true to some extent.
But people get their sentences reduced all the time, for lots of reasons.
There’s just not a headline every time it happens to a poor person.
How much of this is just a bias of awareness?
You make a fair point.
It just felt like a good place to drop a little social commentary from my favorite author
He was truly a treasure.
You’re making me want to reread all of the books. GNU, Terry Pratchett.
If you’re ever wondering “Should I reread the entire discworld series?” The answer is Yes
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
She didn’t exactly complete a substance abuse program to reduce her sentence by two years. Instead, she invented this blood test that uses AI to determine what drugs people could most easily become addicted to.
/s
She defrauded investors. That’s the only reason she’s seeing prison time at all- money. The ethics of her medical product were not the issue, even if they should’ve been.
I was going more for a ”wanna see me do it again” sort of gallows humor. I agree that the most fucked up part is that she’s only experiencing a facsimile of “justice” is because she “stole” money from people richer than her.
I hate that we live in a world where the greatest crime imaginable is punching upwards.
Yeah and I’m sure shes in one of those rich people prisons too, the kind you or i will never see the inside of no matter what we do
Hard to tell looking at it on Google street view and satellite view. It looks pretty cushy for a prison, but who knows, especially in Texas.
Bingo.
Defraud the public: slap on the wrist
Defraud the wealthy: straight to jail
What’s also a bit tragic about all of this is that she chose to have kids right before going to prison. So now her children have to essentially spend their formative years without their mother in their life, other than the prison phone calls and visitation.
Maybe there’s a silver lining. There is a chance they’ll grow into better people than she did
Bet someone told her that new moms receive a reduced prison sentence before she decided to take kids.
The timing combined with her weird sociopathic nature make it all but a certainty that her decision to have kids was entirely driven by the possibility of a reduced sentence.
I mean, I’d rather be alive than not. I would assume that applies to them as well.
She literally had them specifically to get pity and a shorter sentence. If they were never born, I don’t think they would be sad about not being alive.
In that case, they might be better off not being around her.
You’re not wrong, but they are still growing up without a mom. It’s sad.
If you weren’t alive, you wouldn’t know it.
Her children are going to know what a narcissist she is and how she was absent for their childhoods. They’re also going to have the Internet to know exactly what she did, and they’re going to be able to learn that their existence is only because she wanted leniency from the court. She didn’t want kids; she wanted leverage.
I think I’d have been okay without all this.
She was a terrible boss, can’t imagine she’ll be a good mom.
What an odd take.
You can’t rehabilitate people like this. They are fundamentally broken.
Her sentence was reduced by “more than four months,” so I don’t know that this is the best example of the broken justice system.
However, I also disagree that people like this should not be given the chance to rehabilitate themselves. Our punitive prison system doesn’t work.
Disagree on her being broken. She’s a con artist not a mass murderer who was abused from childhood and failed repeatedly by the larger world.
She may have quite literally gotten people killed because they thought they were getting medical test that they never received or were misread. She messed around with people’s health, in particular people who were sick or at risk of being sick. She promised them medical answers and results. That’s more than just being a con artist. That’s messing with people’s lives - quite literally.
However, her sentencing so far has not struck me as particularly light/lenient, and there are many men in power who have done worse to the American public with no repercussions.
I say all this because we should not downplay the seriousness of her actions. There was absolutely a point where she crossed the line from “I thought this was possible and we’d figure it out” to “I’m just going to keep going as long as possible and hope it sorts itself out” as pharmacies started rolling out a bunk product and Tharanos began to lie about the testing and results. They would run tests on proper machines behind closed doors ffs. It was a truly fraudulent operation by the end.
She’s only in prison because she cost rich people money. It has nothing to do with her endangering lives.
Ok? I’m saying what she did wrong. Did she not do what I wrote above?
She also hasn’t had repercussions for defrauding individuals. She financially injured Walgreens. That’s why she is in jail and the other people you mention are not.
We don’t take rehabilitation seriously in the US. Prison is simply out of sight, out of mind.
Plus a big dose of vengeance, they need to be treated like inhuman trash, they need to suffer for their crimes.
Treat a man like an animal long enough and you’ll train him to act like one.
I don’t know. She’s clearly a problem, but I don’t think it serves the greater good to write off any prisoners, or assume anyone cannot be rehabilitated. We should try, not for her, but for all of us.
"Communist labor camps but only for CEOs "
The major problem is she did do what most US CEOs do. Look at Musk: one of the richest men on the planet and not a single promise he’s made about technology has panned out.
The system incentivizes these kinds of liars are charlatans
For the exact same crime with the exact same damages, the gender sentencing gap is three times larger than the wealth sentencing gap, and seven times larger than the racial sentencing gap.
Having been born female (or to materially/physically transition to female) is quite literally the single most effective “get out of jail free” card you could possibly possess.
Who cares, honestly?
Everyone chomping at the bit to have her punished doesn’t understand that she was mostly screwing over rich people who screw you over every day.
Tell that to her victims at Walgreens who grieved when they were falsely told they had suffered a miscarriage or who were told they were HIV positive.
If you look at the parent’s comment history, they appear to be generally saying things aimed at getting a rise out of people, and are pretty consistently downvoted. I believe that they’re a troll (in the original sense of the term, using flamebait to troll for bites, as in trolling for fish). They’re wanting a reaction.
I’d probably just downvote and move on, not engage.
Uhh… what?
I think they’ll be okay.
Are you sure you’re doing a proper job of this? I think you could get a lot more of the angry replies you crave if you put in the effort i know you’re capable of
Is it me or does she look like she’s transitioning? Maybe when she was intentionally deepening her voice it wasn’t simply a ruse.
She just looks like a human woman without makeup or spa treatments
I don’t think so bro. She was a pretty conventionally attractive woman. You can’t explain this all away by just saying she’s not wearing makeup.
I can and I did. Be better.
Nah
