Former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah, who did 33 months into what was originally sentenced as a 6.5 year bid for some telemarketing scam, was released Wednesday morning from the Club Fed in Bryan, Texas, having cashed out her good behavior credits to get out early, People Magazine reports on the reality TV bullshit National Zero mostly ignores until it matters.

If someone’s enough of an attention whore as to want to be on a reality show in the first place then where better to be than positioned to command a shit ton of media coverage after having lived for the past four or five months with a notorious sex offender who for some reason gets unlimited free toilet paper? As a known-enough entity, Shah can and hopefully will do a shit ton to refocus the public on the bubble-wrapping of Ghislaine Maxwell after having bore witness to it firsthand.

One catch though: The Bureau of Prisons confirmed to People that “Jennifer Shah transferred on December 10, 2025, from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan to community confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Phoenix Residential Reentry Management (RRM) Office. Community confinement means the inmate is in either home confinement or a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, or halfway house). For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not disclose an individual’s specific location while in community confinement.” Which sounds more like Shah is still under their thumb and subject to re-incarceration if they piss her off than it doesn’t. Hell for all the rest of us know a “gag order” from talking about Maxwell or really anything FPC Bryan could be a term of this halfway house/home confinement transfer. It’s not clear how long Shah has left until her real release.