Felicity Huffman has reported to prison in Dublin, California this Tuesday for her 2 week sentence. Correction, she’s actually expected to now not even serve the full sentence. She’s only serving 13 days because she already technically already served a day when she was arrested the first time back in March. She’s receiving credit for that. “Any part of a day spent in official detention equals one day for credit purposes,” a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons stated. “Credit is given for time spent in official detention as a direct result of the federal offense for which the federal sentence was imposed.”
Now one person who isn’t fond of her going to prison is Alec Baldwin. He expressed his disdain for the decision Wednesday. He said “I don’t think anyone involved in the college fraud cases should go to prison. That includes past cases as well. Community service, fines, yes. But prison time, no. My heart goes out to Felicity, Bill Macy and their family.” As a recap of what she did, she paid $15,000 to an admissions consultant to have a testing proctor change her daughter’s SAT scores after the fact. She also just paid her $30,000 fine in full, has 250 hours of community service and has a year of supervised release.
For all of Baldwin’s concern, he can show his sympathy without trying to undermine the justice system and not further perpetuate stereotypes about privilege. Huffman will be spending the next two weeks in a facility that allows sunbathing, board games, television and an hour of recreation every day. It doesn’t sound like she’s going to be suffering that much so he should probably can it. He was ordered to take anger management earlier this year for attacking someone over a parking space. He should worry about that.
Lori Loughlin also reached out to Huffman before her sentence. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize she’s scared sh*tless and wants to know as much as she can about the process moreso than to show actual genuine concern. “She wanted to encourage her, and see how she was doing,” a source close to the star says. “She feels like their fates are tied together now, even though they weren’t really friends before.” And she also wants to speak to Huffman after she gets out. “She wants to debrief Felicity after jail to find out what it was like and what her advice would be,” the source added. “She feels like Felicity’s time in jail will be an indicator on her own time,
and she’s extremely curious to know how it goes.”
“She’s definitely hoping that Felicity’s time in prison will go easy for her, because that will be a positive sign that, if Lori has to serve time, that she’ll be able to weather it as well. Of course, it’s still very important for her to be exonerated of all charges against her. She still maintains her innocence, and hopes it won’t come to that. But if she does end up serving time in prison, she wants to know what she’s getting into.”
“Their cases are very different,” says the Loughlin source. After all, she paid over $500,000 for her cheating services. “But Lori wants to know how Felicity is holding up. Ultimately, however, Lori believes that she will be found not guilty by the courts, and won’t have to spend any time in jail. That’s what she’s counting on.”
Loughlin needs to pray and Huffman had better not say a single word of complaint and not come out trying to write a book like Loughlin is or go on some diatribe about how horrible her experience of a whopping 13 days in prison was because not a single one of us will care.
