Teresa Giudice will serve her 15-month prison stint in a minimum security facility in Danbury, Connecticut. The prison is the same one that inspired “Orange is the New Black.”
On January 5, Teresa, 42, will report to Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, the so-called OITNB prison. She and husband Joe Guidice were found guilty of bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy. Joe was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison and will serve his sentence after his wife so one parent can stay with the couple’s four daughters.
Piper Kerman served her yearlong sentence at the same facility, which inspired her to write the memoir that spawned the popular Netflix series. Other famous and infamous inmates of the prison camp include Lauryn Hill and Leona Helmsley. Hill was released from the prison camp on Friday, October 3, after serving a three-month sentence for tax evasion.
“The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star petitioned the judge on Wednesday, October 22, to allow her to serve her sentence in a halfway house, which would have afforded her the luxury to work and visit home on the weekends. The judge denied her special request, which she said was not properly timed and would have likely been denied even if Teresa had requested it at the appropriate time.
Teresa was also publicly dropped by her crisis manager, Wendy Feldman, on Monday after she made her halfway house request.