The Bravo star has been sentenced to 15 months for federal fraud charges 
 
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 Giudice, who stars on Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey, will serve her 15-month prison sentence for federal fraud charges at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn. — the prison that inspired the show Orange Is the New Black. 
 
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 The show is based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, who wrote it after serving a yearlong sentence at Danbury. The fictional Litchfield Penitentiary in upstate New York is the primary setting of the Netflix series. 
 
 Teresa and husband Joe were sentenced earlier this month after pleading guilty to conspiracy and bankruptcy charges. Teresa's sentence begins in January 2015, while Joe will serve his 41-month sentence after she gets out. The couple's sentences were staggered so that one parent could remain home with their four daughters. 
 
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 Teresa had asked to serve 12 of her 15 months in a halfway house, but her request was denied by the judge. The Associated Press previously reported the news. 
 
 Teresa will not be the first celebrity to set foot in the Danbury institution. Singer Lauryn Hill was released this month from the prison after serving a three-month sentence for tax evasion. 
 
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 Teresa Giudice hasn’t been ordered by a judge to serve her prison sentence at Connecticut’s Danbury Federal Camp, the institution that’s the basis for the popular Netflix series, Orange Is The New Black. 
 
 “Judges have no jurisdiction in where someone is assigned,�? a Bureau of Prisons official told RadarOnline.com Wednesday. 
 
 On Wednesday afternoon, erroneous media reports wrongly stated Judge Ester Salas had ordered Teresa to serve her 15-month prison sentence at Danbury. (Giudice’s lawyer had asked the judge to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that her first choice would be Danbury.) 
 
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 While other outlets reported that the judge accommodated the request, the official stressed that it’s only the Bureau of Prisons that decides where an inmate will serve their sentence. 
 
 “The recommendation of the judge is always taken under consideration, certainly,�? the official said, noting that efforts are always made “to keep an inmate within 500 miles of their residence, to accommodate family visits.�? 
 
 The official said that Giudice has no influence over where she’ll be serving her sentence in her fraud conviction, and that the bureau will notify her via letter “sometime in December.�? 
 
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 Giudice could be ordered to surrender to either Danbury or Alderson in West Virginia. 
 
 Other factors such as prison vacancies, and Giudice’s probation report, will figure into where she is sent, the official said. 
 
 After Martha Stewart was convicted for insider trader, the judge recommended she be sent to Danbury, but was ultimately ordered to Alderson. 
 
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 As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Teresa’s husband “Juicy�? Joe will be the only parent at home to care for their four daughters — Gia, 13, Gabriella, 10, Milania, 8, and Audriana, 5 — when the cookbook-haircare maven enters prison Jan. 5. 
 
 When Teresa is released, Joe will enter custody for a total of 41 months, and possibly deported to his native Italy thereafter. 

 FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2014, file photo, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" stars Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, center, and his wife, Teresa Giudice, right, of Montville Township, N.J., walk toward the Martin... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2014, file photo, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" stars Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, center, and his wife, Teresa Giudice, right, of Montville Township, N.J., walk toward the Martin... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge won't recommend that prison officials allow "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice to serve most of her prison sentence in a halfway house. 
 
 A lawyer for Giudice had filed a letter with a judge in Newark this week, asking for a recommendation that she serve 12 months in a halfway house. Prosecutors opposed the request, and U.S. District Judge Esther Salas announced Wednesday that she would not make the recommendation. 
 
 The judge said Giudice should have made the request to serve time at a halfway house — the maximum that could be served at such facilities — at her Oct. 2 sentencing. But even then, the judge said, she likely would have denied it. 
 
 Giudice's new attorney, Stacy Ann Biancamano, said her client would have made the request at that time but did not know that she could. 
 
 The judge also announced Wednesday that she was told Giudice will be assigned to a prison camp facility in Danbury, Connecticut, and must report there on Jan. 5. 
 
 Giudice was sentenced to 15 months in prison for bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy. Her husband, Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, was sentenced to 41 months. 
 
 The Giudices pleaded guilty in March, admitting they hid assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitted phony loan applications to get $5 million in mortgages and construction loans. Joe Giudice also pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes totaling more than $200,000. 

 If Teresa Giudice is sentenced to any jail time for her involvement in the 41 fraud and tax evasion indictment charges against her and hubby Joe, RadarOnline.com has exclusive details about the posh prison where the Real Housewives of New Jersey star will spend her time. 
 
 The minimum-security prison, West Virginia’s FPC Alderson, previously had a celebrity resident in Martha Stewart, who served her five-month sentence for insider trading there. 
 
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 If convicted, prisoners are typically placed in lockups within 500 miles of their home, which the Alderson, WV prison would be approximately 486 miles from the Giudice’s Towaco, NJ, home. 
 
 According to the prison’s website, the commissary list includes everything from makeup like eye shadow and liquid foundation to scissors and razors. 
 
 There is no barbed wire or fences enclosing the 95-acre prison grounds. 
 
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 An 83-page prison handbook states that staff members are encouraged in “providing a safe and humane environment built on the premise of mutual respect and concern for human dignity. It has always been the mission of FPC Alderson to provide opportunities through work, education, recreation, and other self-improvement programs to help you prepare for a successful return to the community. It is your responsibility to contribute to a positive atmosphere and to abide by the rules and regulations of the institution. You are encouraged to use your time at FPC Alderson as an opportunity to prepare for a better tomorrow.” 
 
 Alderson was opened as the first federal prison for women in 1927 and houses approximately 1,055 female prisoners. 
 
 Each prison cell bunks two inmates with a bunk bed, desk, chair and locker. 
 
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 If Giudice is given time in prison, she will work seven and a half hours per day, five days a week, for 12 to 40 cents an hour — the jobs include things like maintenance work, landscaping and food service. 
 
 The prison is so low-security, that it’s even been nicknamed Camp Cupcake. 
 
 Although according to a sociology professor who has visited and written extensively on Alderson, Esther Heffernan, “Through the years [Alderson has housed] relatives of famous mobsters and grandmotherly women who embezzled money from banks. You’ve had a real mixture.” 
 
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 Interestingly, Giudice could also serve time at the Federal Correction Institute in Danbury, Conn., which is also the same facility that inspired Netflix’s wildly popular Orange Is The New Black series. 
 
 But as Radar previously reported, after pleading guilty, Teresa his hoping to serve her sentence under house arrest. 
 
 The Giudices are scheduled to be sentenced on July 8: Joe is facing 37 to 46 months in prison while Teresa could get 21 to 27 months.
– When reality TV collides with television based on reality: A judge yesterday said she had been told where Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice will serve her time come Jan. 5, and it's the prison camp facility that inspired Orange Is the New Black, notes the Hollywood Reporter. Piper Kerman, who penned the book that the show is based on, spent a year at Danbury (though the show is set in the nonexistent Litchfield Penitentiary in upstate New York). US District Judge Esther Salas nixed Giudice's attorney's request that the reality TV star serve 12 months of her 15-month sentence at a halfway house, reports the AP. Radar notes that the Bureau of Prisons, not a judge, makes the decision, and that Giudice will officially be informed of her destination via letter "sometime in December." Assuming Danbury is where she's headed, she'll join more than Kerman among its famous alums: The Reporter notes Lauryn Hill served her tax-evasion sentence there. If she doesn't ultimately get assigned to Danbury, Giudice could end up in this "posh prison," notes Radar.