(Photo Credit: Mike Coppola\/Getty Images for CMT)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTodd and Julie Chrisley are facing a long time in prison<\/h2>\n In November of 2022, Julie and Todd received their sentences for tax evasion and fraud. Both have been behind bars since January 2023.<\/p>\n
To be blunt, their sentence lengths are outrageous. At first, they were to serve a combined 19 years behind bars.<\/p>\n
Since then, things mellowed slightly. Julie received a sentence reduction to 5 years, and Todd received a reduction to 10 years.<\/p>\nChase Chrisley, Julie Chrisley, and Todd Chrisley attend the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 15, 2018. (Photo Credit: Tommaso Boddi\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTodd and Julie have relayed their difficult times behind bars to fans (and critics) through their adult children \u2014 particularly Savannah.<\/p>\n
Savannah has raised the alarm about biohazards, unsafe food, violent threats, and extortion attempts.<\/p>\n
According to their eldest daughter, Julie has been working on remaining busy as she tries to cope with her incarceration.<\/p>\nJulie and Todd Chrisley may be all smiles in this scene from their reality show. But their life is awful these days. (Image Credit: USA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt sounds like Julie has not been reporting as much of her troubles behind bars to Savannah.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Todd has been very vocal about things that he has witnessed. He has expressed a belief that his incarceration may be part of a divine plan to enact prison reform.<\/p>\n
We cannot confirm anything of the sort. And it is always possible that Julie is having an easier time, even if it\u2019s more likely that she is simply trying to shield her children from how miserable she feels.<\/p>\nSavannah Chrisley sits across from her brother, Grayson Chrisley, during the recording of a June 2023 episode of her podcast. The entire look has powerful \u201clandlord white\u201d vibes. (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJulie and Todd are appealing their sentences<\/h2>\n Both of the Chrisleys have been appealing their case since before they even reported to prison.<\/p>\n
The next step in that lengthy process will be oral arguments. As we noted, that will begin in April.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s relatively uncommon for an appeals court to entertain oral arguments at this stage, so the family has taken this as a promising sign.<\/p>\nTodd Chrisley and his wife don\u2019t seem to think the laws apply to them. It\u2019s pretty sad, really. (Image Credit: USA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTo be blunt, Todd and Chrisley are not good people. They are not likeable people.<\/p>\n
It is nonetheless to bizarre that they have received such lengthy sentences for financial crimes that many argue are victimless. They are not billionaires hiding fortunes; these two reality TV villains have \u201csuccessful dentist\u201d levels of wealth.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, unsympathetic victims are still victims of a flawed system. At the risk of agreeing with Todd about just about anything, perhaps he can <\/em>shed light on carceral justice issues while behind bars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julie Chrisley will have a prison birthday party with her kids. And she hopes that it will be her last behind bars. As Julie and Todd Chrisley complete their prison sentences, they continue their lengthy appeals process. Life goes on. They recently spent their first holiday season behind bars. Now, Julie is about to celebrate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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