in 2008, he had a secret agreement with court that he would receive a lower court penalty. along with a shorter jail sentence, he was allowed "custody with work release", which means that he was allowed to be outside of prison for up to 16 hours per day. epstein spent 13months inside jail. after he was released from jail, he received one year of house arrest with probation until august 2010. while he was on probation, he was allowed to travel in his plane to his private homes in manhattan and in the u.s. virgin islands. he was allowed long shopping trips and to walk around palm beach "for exercise".