She is scheduled to be placed there next year, according to an update from the Department of Justice’s Victim Notification System, ABC News reported. Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for placement in a community correction center, or halfway house.
The Victim Notification System says that after being released, Holmes will reside in Austin , Texas. She will be supervised by the United States Probation Office there.
District Judge Edward Davila wrote in a March order granting a motion to reduce Holmes’ sentence. “The hundreds of millions of dollars in losses caused by Holmes’s fraud speak for themselves. And though unquantifiable, the echoes of the immense reputational damage that the innovative industry in Silicon Valley suffered as a consequence of Holmes’s deception still reverberate to this day. Holmes’s revised sentence continues to reflect a just punishment for her serious offense and serves as a reminder that the scales of justice will balance. They dup had claimed that the court made various legal errors and violated their constitutional rights during their separate trials.
“To be clear, this sentence reduction does not diminish the enormity of Holmes’s crimes, nor does it ignore the significant negative impact her conduct has had on the community,” U.S. In 2025, a US appeals court upheld the fraud convictions and $452 million restitution order for Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, her second-in-command.
