Male guards at Texas prison where Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes is serving 11-year sentence ‘carried out shower checks’ and had sex with prisoners, former inmate claims
- Lynn Espejo spent two years at Bryan Federal Prison Camp shared the stunning allegations in a blog alleging the male prison guards walked into the showers
- Holmes, 39, reported to the minimum-security prison on Tuesday after she was indicted on four counts of wire fraud
- The former prisoner alleges that prison guards burst into the shower as part of a prison strategy to crackdown on consensual sexual encounters among inmates
An ex-inmate at the Texas women’s-only prison where founder Elizabeth Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence claims male prison guards ‘carried out shower checks.’
Lynn Espejo, who spent two years at Bryan Federal Prison Camp from 2018 to 2020, shared the stunning allegations in a blog ‘Inside-The-Walls: My Journey Through the Federal Criminal Justice System.’
The former prisoner alleges that prison guards burst into the shower area as part of a prison strategy to crackdown on consensual sexual encounters among the inmates.
Holmes, 39, reported to the minimum-security prison on Tuesday after she was indicted on four counts of wire fraud for defrauding investors with her Silicon Valley startup Theranos, a blood testing company.
She will be housed in the same federal prison as former reality television star, Jen Shah from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Shah is serving a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for her role in a nationwide telemarketing scheme and has been at the prison since February.
When DailyMail.com reached out representatives at the FPC Bryan in Texas they did not respond.
Elizabeth Holmes reports to the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas. Holmes had one last hug with her husband and kept a brave face on as she walked away. Holmes then seemed visibly distraught as she entered the facility door escorted by 2 female staff members
The federal prison in Bryan Texas is a women’s only minimum-security prison
An aerial view of the federal prison that disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will be living in for the next 11 years
Before her fall from grace, the former biotechnology entrepreneur was named the world’s youngest self-made millionaire in 2014 when she was just 30, and worth a staggering $4.5 billion.
At the prison camp, Holmes who was visibly upset, gave her husband Billy Evans, whom she shares two children with, a hug before she was carted off by two female staffers.
‘Many of the women being housed here have been raped, sexually, abused or had other traumas,’ Epsejo wrote in a blog post on February 23, 2020.
‘Just hearing a male voice in the bathroom where they are naked and vulnerable triggers these past traumas and places them in a state of high anxiety and fear.’
She told The New York Post that many of these male guards were having ‘sex with women,’ inmates.
But, also cited that many of these male staffers were ‘upset about it because of the liability situation it places them,’ stating that ‘it’s a no win for any of us.’
She also called out the prison claiming that they did not have an adequate number of female guards on duty to perform strip searches required by federal guidelines.
