JEN Shah’s living conditions inside FPC Bryan offer a stark contrast to the luxury lifestyle she’s left behind, a federal prison consultant has said.
And she thinks the former Bravo personality will have to tough it out in the Texas jail surrounded by women who could begrudge her.
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The RHOSLC star was sentenced to a six-and-a-half-year jail term in January after being found guilty of being involved in a telemarketing scam.
The scheme which she ran with her assistant had targeted the elderly, scamming them by offering things like website design and tax help.
When the 49-year-old was arrested and charged in March 2021 at first she pleaded not guilty to committing money laundering and wire fraud.
But by July 2022 and Shah had pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced at a trial in January 2023.
She’ll also be subject to five years of supervised release when she leaves prison.
Around the time of sentencing and Jen had requested to be sent to FPC Bryan in Texas with the exact prison location to be decided in her incarceration run-up.
Shah indeed reported the location on Friday, February 17 to spend the next 78 months behind bars.
Previously, in December 2022, a federal judge had also ordered Jen to give up many of her luxury items including several fake designer handbags.
In an exclusive interview, prison consultant and paralegal Holli Coulman told The U.S. Sun: “Jen will be terrified of the unknown and the women she’ll be living with.
“She’s going to find it difficult because some of them will resent her for her past lifestyle.
“Otherwise, her life’s never going to be the same.
“She’ll have a job that pays 18 cents an hour, will be woken up for head counts at 3 am, and will have to get up for the day at 5 am.
“Each day she’ll get ten minutes of phone calls and $12 spending money.
“She’ll be able to dye her hair either blonde, red, or black and buy cheap makeup.
“She’ll be wearing plain sweats when she’s inside her unit and a uniform that she puts on.
“And right now she’ll get a coat for the rest of the winter and it’s really cold inside.
“The prison is a minimum-security camp for women but it’ll be a blow to Jen’s system.
“She’s going to go to something that she has never, ever experienced because before Jen lived a luxury lifestyle.”
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Until recently and Jen Shah lived a more than comfortable life and one that many could only dream of.
While since first appearing in the hit reality show in 2020, Jen was never been coy about showing off her wealth.
The businesswoman was often seen throwing plenty of glam parties and wearing expensive clothes.
And despite being fairly secretive about her job, while living in her Shah Ski Chalet for two seasons, the $3.9 million property in Utah later turned out to be rented.
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“Jen’s accommodation will be very different now, ” explains Holli, a former felon who was convicted with a 21-month sentence in the past.
“Everybody thinks these types of camps are easy.
“People do call it ‘camp cupcake’ but these camps aren’t a soft option.
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“Each facility has its own handbook, so Jen will be given that when she arrives.
“She’s going to be required to take classes for rehabilitation and will have to understand that her daily life will be different now.
“She’ll have to learn how email works, and how the phone works where she’ll only get 300 minutes of calls a month.
“Jen will only be able to communicate with certain people in the outside world.
“There are a ton of written and unwritten rules she’ll have to learn,” adds Holli.
“On a typical day, the lights will come on at 5 am.
“There are counts where officers come in and count through 24 hours.
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“So they come in at 5 am and turn the lights on, and count everybody.
“She doesn’t have to be up, but she does have to be on her bed.
“This is a nationwide count so it happens at the same time.
“Breakfast is at 6 am when the dining hall may be open for five minutes or ten minutes.
“It depends on what the manager or the officer on duty that day wants to run it.
“Jen cannot take any food out and this will be her one chance to get a cup of coffee and then work will start.
“The food she’ll have and can also get from the commissary include things like oatmeal and jam, rice, bagels, and beans.
“At 10:30 am she’ll have lunch and at 3 pm they’ll have everybody come back to their unit to be counted.
“It’s dinner at 4 pm.
“After that period of time, that’s when programming (which are classes) and or she’s going to have time on her hands.
“If she doesn’t have that, she’ll be allowed to go to the legal library or go walk to the track or go to the chapel.”
In the run-up to her incarceration and Bravo had featured Jen’s ongoing legal issues during the program’s second and third seasons.
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Eventually, though, she pulled out of the show’s third-season reunion before turning down a pre-incarceration interview possibility with TV Host Andy Cohen.
At the time she said: “I promised myself and my loving family that I would not allow this portion of my life to be sensationalized or inaccurately conveyed.”
Jen went on to add: “Too many people have been hurt by my actions and my inability to control my own narrative.”
“Just because Jen goes to prison, it doesn’t mean that her life’s over, ” says Holli who supports convicted women in the run-up to incarceration.
“She’s also going to have a form of supervised release after her incarceration.
“She’ll have a probation officer and will be under certain financial restrictions.
“Jen might reinvent herself and figure out what she wants and what she can do next.
“Teresa Guidice capitalized on it all and got a ghostwriter to write her book.
“Perhaps Jen will do the same thing.”
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