Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced entrepreneur who was convicted of defrauding traders at her failed blood testing start-up Theranos, reported to a federal jail in Texas on Tuesday to start her 11-year, three-month sentence.

Ms. Holmes surrendered to FPC Bryan, a minimum-security jail camp for ladies positioned roughly 90 minutes from Houston. She pulled up in a Ford Expedition sporting denims, glasses and a sweater, and received out carrying some papers. As she entered the jail, a bystander watching from the road yelled her title.

FPC Bryan’s 655 inmates are required to work within the cafeteria or in a producing facility, the place pay begins at $1.15 an hour, in keeping with the jail’s handbook. Before beginning work on the manufacturing facility, Ms. Holmes could take a take a look at to evaluate her strengths in areas equivalent to enterprise, clerical, numerical, logic, mechanical and “social.” Inmates may enroll in a “Lean Six Sigma” coaching program to find out about effectivity.

“We try to help our ladies obtain work in the factory which focuses on their strengths so they may develop additional marketable skills,” the jail’s handbook says.

Ms. Holmes, 39, was found guilty final 12 months of 4 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy for falsely claiming that Theranos’s blood exams may detect a wide range of illnesses with just some drops of blood. She and her former enterprise companion, Ramesh Balwani, should collectively pay $452 million in restitution to traders who have been defrauded. Ms. Holmes has appealed her case, although her requests to stay out of jail in the course of the attraction have been denied.

Ms. Holmes based Theranos in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford University at age 19. The firm raised $950 million in funding, making her a billionaire on paper. Theranos collapsed in 2018. Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani have been indicted that 12 months.

The pair have been tried individually. Mr. Balwani was convicted on 12 counts of fraud and is serving a virtually 13-year sentence in a federal jail in San Pedro, Calif. He has additionally appealed his case.

Ms. Holmes’s sentence was meant to ship a message to others in Silicon Valley: There are penalties when formidable start-up founders take an ethos often called “fake it till you make it” — when entrepreneurs communicate ambitiously about what their corporations can do, even when the businesses can’t but do these issues — too far. Despite the tech business’s lengthy historical past of stretching the principles, as entrepreneurs invent new companies and disrupt outdated ones, few have ever gone to jail for mendacity.

Since her conviction, Ms. Holmes has been residing in a rental residence in San Diego close to the household of Billy Evans, who’s the daddy of her two kids. During her trial, held in San Jose, Calif., Ms. Holmes and Mr. Evans lived in a house on the grounds of Green Gables, a $135 million property within the rich city of Woodside.

Their two younger kids, William and Invicta, will be capable of conduct video calls with Ms. Holmes and go to her on weekends and federal holidays. Phone calls are restricted to fifteen minutes every, with a complete of 300 minutes per 30 days.

At FPC Bryan, Ms. Holmes, identified for sporting black turtlenecks to imitate Steve Jobs whereas working Theranos, and, throughout her trial, sporting heels, sheath attire and a diaper bag, will put on prison-issued khaki pants and shirts in pastel inexperienced, grey, or white with athletic sneakers that should not exceed $100 in worth.

She won’t have any web entry however can purchase a radio ($31.75) or MP3 participant ($88.40) from the commissary. All music should be “non-explicit,” in keeping with the jail’s handbook.

FPC Bryan presents leisure actions together with music packages, “table games” and flicks, in keeping with its handbook. Arts and crafts can be found, together with beading, knitting, paper artwork, crochet and ceramics. A crochet needle prices $1.30 and yarn is $3.55 at FPC Bryan’s commissary, in keeping with the handbook.

Inmates are allowed to entry an out of doors “recreation yard pavilion” however should return to their dorms for head counts that happen 5 occasions each 24 hours.

Counterfeiting or forging paperwork and conducting a enterprise are in opposition to the principles. Ms. Holmes admitted to falsifying pharmaceutical reports to solicit traders whereas testifying in her trial.

Other inmates on the jail camp embrace Jen Shah, a “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star who’s serving a five-and-a-half 12 months sentence for wire fraud associated to telemarketing. In a blog post from March about her first few days in jail, Ms. Shah described problem working the telephone system, which makes use of account numbers, and famous that not many individuals have been good. Breakfast was prompt oatmeal, an apple and a slice of wheat bread with jelly, she wrote.

Lea Fastow, a former government for the collapsed vitality firm Enron, was incarcerated for tax fraud at FPC Bryan for 11 months within the mid-2000s. Jenna Ryan, a participant within the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, spent 60 days there. And Michelle Janavs, daughter of the Hot Pocket co-founder, served 5 months for her affiliation with the “Operation Varsity Blues” faculty admissions scandal.

Three inmates escaped FPC Bryan in 2017. One of them, Edith Lara, who was serving time for drug prices, has not been discovered, in keeping with the Bureau of Prisons web site.

Annie Mulligan contributed reporting from Bryan, Texas.