Elizabeth Holmes Texas prison offers inmates business classes

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Jen Shah and Elizabeth Holmes, both convicted of fraud, can take business skills classes at the Texas prison where they'll serve their sentences

, all inmates are required to hold a job for a minimum of 90 days. The inmates are given opportunities to take tests that determine if they are particularly skilled in fields like business or clerical work.make cents an hour

to hone those skills. These inmates will have to shadow a more experienced worker to learn how to operate machinery or complete data entry assignments. However, the handbook states that inmates — including the former billionaire businesswoman — cannot start or conduct their own business while at the Federal Prison Camp.

Holmes will also spend her time in prison making her bed at early hours, enduring multiple headcounts a day, keeping her cell clean by mopping the floors, taking out the trash, and facing random shakedowns for contraband. Her timetable will be strictly controlled, and she will only be allowed to move about the prison at certain times.Criminal defense lawyer Alan Ellis "If you have to go it's a good place to go," Ellis told Bloomberg.

A lawyer for Holmes and representatives for Shah did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. Subscribe to push notifications

 

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