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Elizabeth Holmes will be transferred from the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, to the Austin transitional center in Del Valle next August after her 2022 conviction for defrauding investors. She was sentenced to more than 11 years and ordered to pay restitution for promoting Theranos’s blood-testing technology as capable of detecting diseases, including cancers, from drops of finger-pricked blood, while investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Prison records put her scheduled release in February 2030, and she plans to live in Austin after leaving custody.
Her prison term has been shortened several times; the judge who approved a revised sentence said the reductions do not lessen the seriousness of her conduct and that the punishment remains just. The move to a halfway house will shift her into an Austin transitional program before full release. Public interest has increased amid a new documentary by comedian Nathan Fielder, You Can See Everything, which follows Holmes and her partner Billy Evans around the time of her incarceration, and reporting that Evans has raised millions for a new medical-testing startup has intensified speculation about her post-prison plans.
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