Real Housewives of New Jersey Cast News: Teresa Giudice to Serve Prison Sentence at “Orange is the New Black” Prison
The reality TV star, Teresa Giudice, will serve her 15 month sentence in the same low-security prison on which the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" is based. Giudice and her husband Joe Giudice were found guilty of tax fraud earlier this month.
Teresa Giudice, 42, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and will serve out her punishment in a Danbury, Connecticut, minimum-security prison camp, according to Deadline, the same one on which "Orange Is the New Black" is based.
In an attempt to lessen the brunt of her prison sentence, Giudice's lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Esther Salas to allow her to serve 12 months of her sentence in a halfway house, according to CBS New York. However, Judge Salas said on Wednesday she would not allow this.
Assistant U.S. attorneys Rachael Honig and Jonathan Romankow wrote a letter to Judge Salas recommending that Giudice should be sent to the prison camp for the entirety of her sentence, according to NJ.com.
"It was clearly not the Court's intention at the sentencing in this matter to sentence defendant to serve all or virtually all of her sentence in a halfway house," the prosecutors said. "The Court made detailed, express findings on the record about the need to sentence defendant to jail. ... To amend the judgment now to include a recommendation of 12 months in a halfway house would be to undercut all of these findings completely."
In a conference call with the Giudice's attorneys, Judge Salas said she decided against the halfway house and told the lawyers that they should have made the request earlier.
"The issue was never raised and it was never before the court," Salas said, adding that it should have been raised during the Oct. 2 sentencing.
Giudice will serve her sentence at a minimum-security prison camp that houses 218 inmates. The camp is located around 80 miles from the Giudice's home in Montville, New Jersey.
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