Elizabeth Holmes faces 6 a.m. wake-up calls and making her own bed at federal prison camp
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- Elizabeth Holmes is due to start serving her 11-year sentence Tuesday.
- The Theranos founder is expected to do so at Bryan federal prison camp in Texas.
- Bryan's rules include 6 a.m. wake-up calls and working for as little as 12 cents an hour.
Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted founder of Theranos, is expected to start serving her 11-year sentence at a federal prison camp in Texas Tuesday.
If Holmes is sent to Bryan, about 100 miles from Houston, as a judge recommended, she can expect to be woken at 6 a.m. daily and have to make her own bed, per an inmate handbook.
She will be responsible for keeping her cell clean by mopping the floors and taking out the trash – or risk being disciplined.
Rooms at Bryan do not have doors, according to a drawing published by The Wall Street Journal, and contain two sets of double bunks, a table, folding chairs and lockers.
The facility offers inmates business classes and are all required to hold a job for a minimum of 90 days, which pays between 12 and 40 cents an hour, according to the handbook.
The Stanford dropout was found guilty in January 2022 on four of the 11 fraud and conspiracy counts.
Holmes has made several attempts to avoid going to prison, but on May 16 a judge denied her request to remain free while appealing her conviction.
She gave a series of often bizarre pre-prison interviews to The New York Times in an attempt to rehabilitate her image. Holmes admitted building a persona that wasn't "authentic" — wearing black turtlenecks, red lipstick, messy blonde hair, and lowering her voice.
At the prison camp, the 39-year-old mother of two will have no choice but to don khaki prison garb.
Some inmates and guards at the camp are looking forward to Holmes arriving, The Journal reported. One inmate told the newspaper a corrections officer had joked about getting Holmes to scrub pans.
A copy of "Bad Blood," John Carreyrou's book about the rise and fall of Holmes and Theranos, has been spotted in the library of the prison camp, per The Journal.
The prison camp holds about 650 women convicted of white-collar crimes, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It's the same facility where Jen Shah, one of the women featured on "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," is serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Representatives for Holmes didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
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