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.

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    That’s the way it was. Privilege, which just means ‘private law.’ Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.

    Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

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    People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.

    She didn’t exactly complete a substance abuse program to reduce her sentence by two years. Instead, she invented this blood test that uses AI to determine what drugs people could most easily become addicted to.

    /s

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      She defrauded investors. That’s the only reason she’s seeing prison time at all- money. The ethics of her medical product were not the issue, even if they should’ve been.

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        I was going more for a ”wanna see me do it again” sort of gallows humor. I agree that the most fucked up part is that she’s only experiencing a facsimile of “justice” because she “stole” money from people richer than her.

        I hate that we live in a world where the greatest crime imaginable is punching upwards.

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    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.

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

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        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.

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        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.

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      Her sentence was reduced by “more than four months,” so I don’t know that this is the best example of the broken justice system.

      However, I also disagree that people like this should not be given the chance to rehabilitate themselves. Our punitive prison system doesn’t work.

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      Disagree on her being broken. She’s a con artist not a mass murderer who was abused from childhood and failed repeatedly by the larger world.

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      I don’t know. She’s clearly a problem, but I don’t think it serves the greater good to write off any prisoners, or assume anyone cannot be rehabilitated. We should try, not for her, but for all of us.

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      "Communist labor camps but only for CEOs "

      The major problem is she did do what most US CEOs do. Look at Musk: one of the richest men on the planet and not a single promise he’s made about technology has panned out.

      The system incentivizes these kinds of liars are charlatans

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    For the exact same crime with the exact same damages, the gender sentencing gap is three times larger than the wealth sentencing gap, and seven times larger than the racial sentencing gap.

    Having been born female (or to materially/physically transition to female) is quite literally the single most effective “get out of jail free” card you could possibly possess.

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    Who cares, honestly?

    Everyone chomping at the bit to have her punished doesn’t understand that she was mostly screwing over rich people who screw you over every day.

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      Tell that to her victims at Walgreens who grieved when they were falsely told they had suffered a miscarriage or who were told they were HIV positive.

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        If you look at the parent’s comment history, they appear to be generally saying things aimed at getting a rise out of people, and are pretty consistently downvoted. I believe that they’re a troll (in the original sense of the term, using flamebait to troll for bites, as in trolling for fish). They’re wanting a reaction.

        I’d probably just downvote and move on, not engage.

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          Are you sure you’re doing a proper job of this? I think you could get a lot more of the angry replies you crave if you put in the effort i know you’re capable of

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    Is it me or does she look like she’s transitioning? Maybe when she was intentionally deepening her voice it wasn’t simply a ruse.