Less than a month after Teresa Giudice was sentenced to 15 months in prison on fraud charges, the star of the reality show, "Real Housewives of New Jersey," filed a motion Thursday to spend part of her jail sentence in a halfway house, E! News reported.
Giudice's new lawyer, Stacy Ann Biancamo, expressed the intent through a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas requesting for reconsideration to let the reality star spend part of the 15-month prison term in the said facility.
In a response letter, Assistant U.S. attorneys Rachael Honig and Jonathan Romankow said allowing Giudice's request would mean "little or no jail time" for the reality star.
"It was clearly not the Court's intention at the sentencing in this matter to sentence defendant to serve all or virtually all of her sentence in a halfway house," the prosecutors said, according to nj.com.
Biancamo said they "respectfully disagree" with the court's decision to disapprove Giudice's request because it will be a "substantive change to her sentence." Her letter said that the appeal was not meant to ask the court to recommend, let alone to order a direct Residential Reentry Center or halfway house designation in lieu of incarceration.
"Rather, we are merely asking that the Court recommend that the BOP [Federal Bureau of Prisons] consider applying the Second Chance Act's maximum RRC placement period when it transitions Ms. Giudice from a BOP facility to a RRC during the 15-month custodial sentence imposed by the Court," Biancamo said.
The center for which Giudice appealed to spend part of her sentence in can "provide a safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance and other programs and services."
It will also help inmates gradually rebuild their ties to the community and facilitate supervising ex-offenders' activities during this readjustment phase, as per the official government website.
Giudice claimed that her plea for a halfway confinement is backed by the Second Chance Act, according to Perez Hilton.
