Actress Felicity Huffman Asks To Serve Prison Term In Dublin

DUBLIN, CA — "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman, who was sentenced last week in the now-notorious college admissions scandal, wants to spend her 14-day prison sentence in Dublin, located in Alameda County.

In federal court in Boston on Friday, Huffman's attorney requested that the actress be allowed to serve her time at the exclusively female, low-security Federal Correctional Institution on 8th Street, according to a CNN report.

The Bureau of Prisons has the final authority to decide where Huffman will serve time when she reports to the bureau on Oct. 25, according to the report.

If Huffman's request is granted, she's not the only famous female to serve time in Dublin. Patricia Hearst, Heidi Fleiss, and Sara Jane Moore are a few of the notable inmates.

Huffman, 56, who is married to actor William H. Macy, was sentenced to the prison term and must also pay a $30,000 fine, serve a year of supervised release and complete 250 hours of community service after she pleaded guilty to paying $15,000 to boost her daughter Sophia's SAT scores.

Huffman and many others were indicted in the nationwide bribery scandal earlier this year. The actress was among more than a dozen parents who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

In her four-page letter to the judge who sentenced her, Huffman wrote about her shame and remorse. She explained that she was driven to participate in the college admission fraud out of "desperation to be a good mother. I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot."

She added that she sees "the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair" and feels "a deep and abiding shame over what I have done." Read the full story on CNN.