Posted on 05/30/23
| News Source: FOX Business
Holmes, 39, was due to arrive at a women's prison camp located in Bryan, Texas by 2 p.m. local time. The facility is located near her hometown of Houston, granting her greater access to family members.
Holmes has a nearly 2-year-old son and a 3-month-old baby, who she conceived after her conviction and prior to sentencing. The children will be raised by their father, her partner, Billy Williams. Most recently the family lived in San Diego, California.
According to a former inmate at the Texas facility, Holmes will be allowed up to 300 minutes per month to speak with loved ones on the phone and will be able to receive visitors on weekends. Some inmates at Bryan are already reportedly anxious to befriend her.
Holmes has been out on bail since a jury found her guilty on four counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022, and is currently appealing her conviction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which earlier this month denied her request to remain free while it considers her case.
The former Silicon Valley darling was originally indicted on 11 charges, acquitted of four, and the jury could not reach a verdict on the remaining three.
Holmes’ incarceration marks a stunning fall from grace for the former CEO who dropped out of Stanford University at the age of 19 to launch Theranos, becoming a billionaire on paper after raising more than $900 million from investors on promises that its blood-testing technology could diagnose diseases with just a few drops of blood.