Elizabeth Holmes is going into prison today. This is what prison life will be like for her.

Elizabeth Holmes is officially in the clink, after she was sentenced to 11 years in prison for scamming $1.5 billion out of investors who believed Theranos, her company, had invented a technology that could diagnose medical conditions like cancer with a simple pinprick of blood.

Her elaborate scheme was the subject of a podcast called The Dropout, which was later adapted into an award-winning series starring Amanda Seyfried.

The high-profile fraudster surrendered herself to prison guards on May 30, to begin her sentence, after she was convicted in 2022. She made several bids to avoid prison time and have the conviction overturned but ultimately, she was unsuccessful. 

Holmes will be heading to the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, located in Texas, where the 665 female inmates can join wellness programs, partake in recreational activities and enjoy the freedoms of no fences and minimal prison staff.

Watch: Elizabeth Holmes to start her 11 years of sentence. Post continues after video.

FPC is even nicknamed 'Club Fed', a play on the recreational resort chain, Club Med. 

The 39-year-old will also find comfort in like-minded inmates like Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jennifer Shah, who's serving out her own six-year sentence for her involvement in a telemarketing fraud scheme targeted at the elderly. Shah's even blogging about her incarceration from her dorm. 

Here's what the next 11 years of Holmes' life will look like.

Holmes' Day-to-Day Schedule

Breakfast: 6:30am to 7:15am

Lunch: 10:30am to 11:30am

Dinner: 4:30pm to 5:30pm

She'll also be required to work and, given she's a Stanford dropout, she may end up taking up higher-level roles amongst the prisoners. 

"I expect she would be teaching in some fashion," Mark MacDougall, a former federal prosecutor tells CNN. "That's a very common occupation for inmates who have some education."

Elizabeth Holmes escorted by prison officials into the Federal Prison Camp on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Bryan, Texas. Image: AP.

Privileges

While in the slammer, Holmes can also pick up a business course (perhaps the syllabus includes an ethics component ), so she's skilled upon release. She can even brush up on her fitness in the gym, or take on a hobby, like arts and crafts. Learning an instrument or language is also an option for the mother-of-two. And when she isn't shopping – yep, we're being legit – she can even catch a movie, as per Yahoo!.

But if she wants to catch a flick – maybe The Dropout? – she has to compete with her three dorm mates between non-working hours, or at the discretion of prison staff. Between her studies, working out and crafting, there won't be many hours left in the day for Holmes.

She will also be given the option of having her very own MP3 player, the perfect gadget for listening to the countless true crime podcasts dedicated to hers truly.

When she gets a spare moment, however, we imagine she'll be dropping her partner and kids a line. She has 15 minutes to make phone calls, and 25 minutes for video calls outside her working hours from 6am to 11:30pm.

Now, back to the shopping. Using her modest wage of 15 cents to $1.50 per hour, Holmes can purchase herself toiletries, clothing, office supplies, food, and – get this – jewellery.

The downsides

Besides being, well, in prison, one of the downsides Holmes will have to face is cleaning her own room and shared living quarters. Yep, she's far from the opulent life she lived as a billionaire on scammed money.

She also has to say goodbye to her signature black turtleneck and slacks, which were inspired by her hero, the late billionaire and Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. According to Yahoo!, "Inmates are required to wear prison-issued or commissary-offered khaki pants and khaki shirts," from Monday to Friday between 7:30am and 3:30pm. "They are prohibited from wearing civilian clothing and must wear only items issued by the Bureau of Prisons or purchased in the prison's commissary."

But Holmes' style restrictions don't end there, "With the exception of religious headwear, all clothing offered for purchase in the commissary is limited to the colours of pastel green, grey, or white."

It's easy to mock a billionaire crim while they're down, but MacDougall tells CNN that FPC is no walk in the park.

"I think people who talk about 'Camp Fed' have never actually been inside a federal correctional institution," he says. "It's not a place where people would want to spend time if they could be somewhere else."

Feature Image: AP.