Admissions scandal: Felicity Huffman gets early release from one of ‘10 cushiest prisons’ in US
- Facility has been described as ‘Club Fed’, with past inmates including ‘Hollywood Madam’ Heidi Fleiss
- Desperate Housewives star out two days before end of two-week sentence because of policy on prisoners with weekend release dates
Actress Felicity Huffman was released on Friday morning from a federal prison in California two days before the end of a two-week sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal, authorities said.
The Desperate Housewives star was released from the low-security prison for women because under prison policy, inmates scheduled for weekend release are let out on Friday, the US Bureau of Prisons said.
Her husband, actor William H. Macy, dropped off Huffman – aka inmate No 77806-112 – at the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 15, with one day of credit already banked for the day she was originally arrested and jailed.
A federal judge in Boston last month sentenced Huffman, 56, to two weeks in prison, a US$30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and a year’s probation after she pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy for paying an admissions consultant US$15,000 to have a proctor correct her daughter’s SAT answers.
The Emmy-award winning actress tearfully apologised at her sentencing, saying: “I was frightened. I was stupid, and I was so wrong.”
A representative for Huffman did not immediately reply to a request for comment from the actress on Friday.
