Jen Shah, the former reality-TV star from “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was officially transferred from the Federal Prison Camp Bryan where she had been incarcerated to a community-confinement program overseen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday.
According to Bureau of Prisons policy, community confinement typically means that an inmate is relocated to a Residential Reentry Center (a “halfway house”) or placed on home confinement. For safety and privacy reasons, the bureau does not disclose the specific location of individuals in these programs, spokesperson Emery Nelson said in an email to the Deseret News.
Current records project Shah’s final release for August 2026, once all supervised-release conditions have been met, according to Forbes.
Shah was sentenced in January 2023 to 6½ years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for her role in a nationwide telemarketing scheme. Prosecutors said the scheme targeted vulnerable and often elderly victims by selling them fraudulent business-opportunity services, as previously reported by the Deseret News.
At her sentencing hearing, Shah apologized and agreed to pay $6.5 million in restitution to those affected upon her release from prison.
Prosecutors said she used proceeds from the scam to support a lavish lifestyle, including a nearly 10,000-square-foot Utah mansion, nicknamed “Shah Ski Chalet,” as reported by The Associated Press.
Though originally sentenced to 6½ years, Shah did not serve the full term. Her time behind bars was reduced on multiple occasions due to good behavior and her participation in prison programs, Deseret News previously reported.
“I alone am responsible for my terrible decisions. It was all my fault and all my wrongdoing,” Shah said at her sentencing. “I wish I could have stood outside myself and seen the harm I was causing and changed course. I am profoundly and deeply sorry.”
