Elizabeth Holmes Details Daily Life In Prison: ‘Pure Pain’ (exclusive)

For Elizabeth Holmes- The former CEO of Theranos, a billion dollars health starts that collapsed in a scam in 2022- is a monotonous routine these days.

“I wake up right after 05:00 every day at 06:00 the connection will open and 06:30 am breakfast. I usually eat pieces of fruit,” says Holmes, 41. “Then I work out every day for 40 minutes, lift weights, Roing .

For the past two years, Home for Holmes has been a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she is atoning an 11.25-year-old judgment (reduced to 9 years for good behavior) for her role in a health care system that costs investors hundreds of millions of dollars.

Her young children-son William, 3, and daughter Invicta, are 2-up near their father, Holmes Partner Billy Evans, 33, but visits their mother in the dorm style correction system every weekend.

“It’s been pure pain since I’ve been here,” says Holmes, who opens up about her life behind pillars and is separated from her family in this week’s people’s covering history. “It’s been torture.”

During visitor times on Saturdays and Sundays – the highlight of Holmes Week – she has an opportunity to cuddle with William and Invicta (Latin for “Invincible”) in a bare room furnished with blue plastic chairs and vending machines or to see them search for insects in Prison Garden.

When visiting hours ends around 1 p.m. 15, she says, she has to fight back tears. “It’s impossible to say goodbye to my family when they travel. Every time it’s like surrendering again. I don’t use the word ‘goodbye’ because I’m always with them.”

Weekdays are working days in prison. At. At 08.00, Holmes, once hailed as the next Steve Jobs, is on the plant’s educational building, where she serves 31 cents per hour as a reentry office benefits.

Between roll calls five times a day, she is also working on her recently launched campaign to reform the criminal system. She has prepared a bill-in-seven-page handwritten document entitled American Freedom Act-as she says would change criminal procedure with the goal of strengthening the presumption of innocence.

Legal expert NEAMA RAHMANIA former federal prosecutor, says Holmes’ proposal for major changes in the justice system “has no real chance of going.” He points out that she was convicted of one of the biggest fraud in American history and claims that “Holmes should take on responsibility for her actions and stop trying to divert blame on our criminal justice system.”

As she defiantly maintains her innocence, Holmes admits, “I repeated mistakes, I made a million times in my mind and burned them into my body.” But when he was asked to specify the “mistakes” she committed, Holmes refuses to answer and said only, “Theranos failed. I take responsibility for this failure. Mistake is not fraud.”

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As a prison legislator, Holmes also helps women with their legal matters or to ensure compassionate release as well as teach French classes. Once a week, she participates in cognitive and behavioral therapy for PTSD, monitored by a psychiatrist. And she also advises personally inmates who are rape survivors.

“So many of these women don’t have any,” she says, “and once they’re in there, they’re forgotten.”

Scheduled to release on April 3, 2032Holmes says she hopes to continue her struggle for the defendant’s rights in the legal system – and of course to spend as much time as possible with her family.

Although no decorations are allowed inside her dormitory, she says, photos of her children and fiancé in a badge she wears around her neck. “I tape their pictures in all my books and I put them out in front of me as I work,” she says. “That’s what I’m living and fighting for.”

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