Actress Felicity Huffman released early from US college scandal sentence

LOS ANGELES: Actress Felicity Huffman was released from prison Friday after serving 11 days of a 14-day sentence for her role in a scam in which she paid a bribe to help her daughter gain admission to college.

Huffman, 56, an Academy Award nominee, began serving her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, on October 15 and had been set to be released on Sunday.A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told AFP that the"Desperate Housewives" and"American Crime" star was released early from the low-security facility east of San Francisco under rules that allow inmates to be freed prior to a weekend.

Huffman, who is married to actor William H Macy, was the first of more than 30 parents to be sentenced in an elaborate and wide-ranging scam to help children of the elite secure places in top US colleges. US District Judge Indira Talwani had sentenced her to serve two weeks behind bars after Huffman pleaded guilty to conspiracy related to her payment of US$15,000 to have someone secretly correct answers on her daughter Sophia's SAT college entrance test.

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