“She is going to be in a big, huge room with bunk beds, tons of them,” Miller said. “That’s where they first put you to get acclimated to the prison life.”
Huffman was sentenced to serve 14 days in prison after pleading guilty for her involvement in the college admissions scandal. She will also have to pay a $30,000 fine and serve 250 hours of community service.
In 2018 Miller served an eight-month prison sentence for bankruptcy. She was released early in May.
“She’s not going to get a job because she won’t be there long enough,” Miller said. “She’s not going to learn how to be a plumber and how to do HVAC, and how to do all the things that you have to do to go over to the men’s prisons and do.”
Miller went on to say the difference between women’s prisons and men’s prisons is the work, with men put in camps to do hard labor while women “make lunches.”
Miller is convinced, however, that Huffman will be fine post-prison.
“She’ll make a huge movie out of it,” the Dance Moms star said.
Huffman told Judge Indira Talwani before her sentencing how she regretted not stopping her involvement in the college admissions fraud. Speaking of the day she drove her daughter to the SAT test, knowing full well it was rigged, she said, “I thought to myself, ‘Turn around. Just turn around,’” she said, adding, “to my eternal shame, I didn’t.”
In a statement released after her sentencing, Huffman said, “I accept the court’s decision today without reservation. I have always been prepared to accept whatever punishment Judge [Indira] Talwani imposed. I broke the law. I have admitted that and I pleaded guilty to this crime. There are no excuses or justifications for my actions. Period.”
She went on to apologize to her daughter, family and students “who work hard every day to get into college.”
“I have learned a lot over the last six months about my flaws as a person,” she went on to say. “My goal now is to serve the sentence that the court has given me. I look forward to doing my community service hours and making a positive impact on my community. I also plan to continue making contributions wherever I can well after those service hours are completed.”
Huffman must report to prison on October 25. Huffman’s sentencing is the first of many in the far-reaching investigation into wealthy parents rigging the college admission system through a vast organized fraudulent scheme. In some cases parents would pay a proctor to take or change answers on college admission tests, in other cases, coaches and college officials involved in the scheme would falsify applicants’ records to ensure admission. Huffman and Full House star Lori Loughlin are the two biggest celebrities involved in the scandal.
