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Felicity Huffman, the Emmy-winning actress sentenced last week to 14 days in prison for her role in the college admissions scandal, would like to make a request to authorities: Please let me do the time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin.
While we await word from officials about whether her wish to stay at the 1,235-inmate facility will be granted, here are some of the noted names whove been locked up inside what Forbes magazine has called one of the “10 cushiest prisons” in America.
Who: Patty Hearst
How long: 21 months; released from custody in 1979 after President Jimmy Carter commuted her seven-year sentence
Details: Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of 19th-century media mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. After spending 19 months with her captors, during which she joined them in criminal acts, she was captured by the FBI. The kidnapping and her subsequent arrest captivated the nation as Americans struggled to understand how the daughter of one of the nations wealthiest men could have become, if only temporarily, a domestic terrorist. “In the spring of 1976, she was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to 35 years in prison,” according to Biography.com, the documentary series that did a show on Hearst. In 2001, she was granted a full pardon by President Bill Clinton.
As this paper reported in 2017, “Hearsts plodding journey through the legal system was almost anti-climactic” compared with the wild story of her kidnapping. “She was convicted of two felonies on March 20, 1976, and sentenced to seven years in prison. She filed an appeal and was released on bail in November 1976. In May 1978, the appeal was denied and she returned to prison. On Feb. 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence. She was released from the federal prison in Dublin on a cold winter morning.”
Who: Sara Jane Moore
How long: 32 years; released on parole after receiving a life sentence
Details: Moore ended up at FCI Dublin after her failed attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination, then was released from prison in late 2007. Moore and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, another FCI Dublin inmate, are the only two women to have attempted to assassinate an American president. They both tried to kill Ford during visits to California within within three weeks of one another. The Los Angeles Times reported at the time of her 2007 release from FCI Dublin that Moore expressed confused feelings about trying to kill the president. “Am I sorry I tried?” she said. “Yes and no. Yes, because it accomplished little except to throw away the rest of my life. … And, no, Im not sorry I tried, because at the time it seemed a correct expression of my anger.”
Who: Heidi Fleiss
How long: 20 months; released from custody after being sentenced to 37 months in prison
Details: Fleiss became known as the “Hollywood Madam” after police busted her upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles.In 1994, Fleiss was convicted of pandering in connection with her high-end prostitution business,” the L.A. Times reported. She later served time for money laundering and tax evasion. After her time behind bars in Dublin, she became a columnist and television personalitRead More – Source
