Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

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.

  • @Gork
    38•12 days ago

    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.

      • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
        1•11 days ago

        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.

    • @whoreticulture@midwest.social
      1•12 days ago

      Her children will have their father, and lots of kids grow up with single parents (as I did). It’s not like some big tragedy, it’s just another kind of family.

    • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      -30•12 days ago

      I mean, I’d rather be alive than not. I would assume that applies to them as well.

      • @ickplant@lemmy.world
        42•12 days ago

        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.

      • Billiam
        12•12 days ago

        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.