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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
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.
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.
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She’s only in prison because she cost rich people money. It has nothing to do with her endangering lives.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Nah
anyone surprised this person’s comment history has them calling the left fascist, and throwing a men’s rights pity party.
Liberals passed the 1990’s Crime Bill that enslaved 10’s of millions of black men. They’re crushing protests and supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza
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If you don’t want people to think you’re a troll account, you’re doing a terrible job.
