Two years in its original sentence of 11.25 years (now reduced to nine years for good behavior) for fraud and plot while operating its onset of blood testing billion dollars of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes We talked People Magazine for her life behind bars.
“It has been hell and torture to be here,” she said for her time spent at the Bryan Prison Federal Camp in Texas.
She describes the heart blow she experiences whenever her children, who are 2 and 3 years old, leave after visits. And, while maintaining her innocence, her disappointment with the accusations of the people of her.
“People who never met me believe me so hard for me. They don't understand who I am,” she told people.
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Holmes, like all prisoners at Camp Bryan who are considered medically capable, have a job and earn 31 cents an hour as a reentry clerk. She says she helps the imprisoned women who are being released to write their resumes and apply for government benefits.
“So many of these women have no one, and after they are there, they are forgotten,” she told the people. She also works as a law clerk and teaches French classes.
Holmes says she fills her recent reading books – everything from Harry Potter to the ancient manual of the Chinese deity I ching -and sees a psychiatrist to help her cope with the PTSD from the alleged abuse that she proved to suffer from the ex-boyfriend and executive of Theranos Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. “I wish I could leave, or I had seen the abuse or understood it – and why I didn't do it – and I'm finding peace with that,” she said.
Holmes is scheduled to be released in April 2032. She says her future plans revolve around her family and protecting for prisoners separated from their children. “This will be the work of my life,” she said.