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2019-09-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Felicity Huffman wants to serve her sentence at one of ‘America’s cushiest prisons’

[PAGESIX] Felicity Huffman is hoping to avoid serving hard time.

Lawyers for Huffman, who reports to prison on Oct. 25, requested Friday that the actress spend her two weeks behind bars at a minimum-security women’s lockup in northern California dubbed one of the cushiest prisons in the country.

The Federal Correctional Institution Dublin houses 1,235 inmates and sits about 350 miles away from her Los Angeles home.

While it’s ultimately the decision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, attorney Martin Murphy asked Judge Indira Talwani make the recommendation so the desperate inmate could see her family.

“It’s the closest to Ms. Huffman’s residence,” Murphy said inside the packed courtroom.

As a Dublin inmate, the “Desperate Housewives” star would have to trade her designer duds for the prison’s issued uniform: dowdy khaki clothing marked with her name and inmate number.

Huffman, 56, will have to make her bed each morning in time for a daily 6:30 a.m. inspection and it will be lights out at 10 p.m. daily, according to the inmate handbook.

Husband William H. Macy and her two daughters will be able to visit on Saturday and Sundays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. but will not be able to bring any gifts.

“Visitors may bring a maximum of $35.00 per adult. Money can only be used for the vending machines in the Visiting Room and may not be given to the inmate,” the handbook states.

In 2009, Forbes named the big-house as one of America’s “10 cushiest prisons” — citing the facilities gorgeous bay area weather.

The prison was formerly home to Heidi Fleiss — the “Hollywood Madam” who ran an upscale prostitution ring in Los Angeles — and Sarah Jane Moore, the woman who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

Posted by Fred 2019-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Felicity Huffman sentenced to two weeks in prison for college admissions scandal I smell a bestseller "My Prison Experience" coming.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-14 03:42|| 2019-09-14 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Put her in Supermax, Florence CO - should be a great book!

Posted by Raj 2019-09-14 07:02|| 2019-09-14 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Reading Wikipedia it does not sound that grand, makes me wonder what some of the non-cushy jails are like. "Conditions are cramped, with three inmates sharing a cell on the top tier and four inmates sharing a cell on the bottom tier, designed to house a single prisoner."

Posted by BernardZ 2019-09-14 07:36|| 2019-09-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 This will probably enhance her Hollywood street cred.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-14 09:29|| 2019-09-14 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds you of what was said about Elvis's death: good career move.

Posted by Lex 2019-09-14 10:07|| 2019-09-14 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 She's no threat to anyone. She should be put into a country club prison for two years or solitary for two months.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-14 11:36|| 2019-09-14 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Since when do convicts get to chose their prison? She acts like she thinks the judge is her travel agent and she's picking a hotel.

And, BTW, what is it with 14 days? Why even bother if she doesn't get at least 30?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-09-14 12:16|| 2019-09-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Hollywood types should be punished not with jail time - they'll just turn the experience into a script, and monetize it handsomely as soon as they're released - but by negative virtue-signaling.

That is, force them to contribute time or money or both to public service which run counter to their fashionable causes. A few possible examples:

- require Ms. Felicity to fly to an Appalachian town every weekend and work as a dental assistant guveibg free dental care to underserved rural communities.

- require the make perps to do community service teaching first-time young male offenders some basic mechanical task - how to change an auto filter, or hang sheetrock. Or just how to boil an egg or roast a chicken without burning it.

- require both male and female perps to go to sunbelt low-income communities during summer months and a install new roofs, or go to similarly needy frost belt communities in winter months and help convert houses to natural gas.

A world of possibilities.

Posted by Lex 2019-09-14 12:29|| 2019-09-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Too bad Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Infamous 'Tent City Jail' closed.

While yes it was a non violent crime & the cost of locking her up for 2 weeks is a joke, what she did really sucked. If there are no consequences or very laughable ones this will continue.

Posted by Jan 2019-09-14 13:45|| 2019-09-14 13:45|| Front Page Top

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