Now that Julie and Todd Chrisley are settling back into life after they were released from prison, they’re looking back at their time behind bars – including the darker parts of their experience. During this week’s episode of Savannah Chrisley‘s Unlocked podcast, Julie claimed she was purposefully “locked” in the prison cafeteria once, all because of a worker who wanted to get revenge.
Before the presidential pardon that set both Todd and Julie free, Julie was serving time at Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, where Savannah said she believed her mom was receiving “harsher” treatment than Todd was as he served time at Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in Florida.
“I will never forget at the very beginning, you called me, and you were all to pieces because that one a—— CO,” Savannah said, referring to a “food service” worker who Julie said was particularly unkind to her.
She shared that she was locked in the cafeteria by the worker intentionally, to which Savannah responded, “he did it because he was p—ed off at her – he did it on purpose.”
Julie went on to call the worker a “miserable human being,” and Todd chimed in that he noticed that women are treated worse in prison than men are, citing a time when the air conditioning stopped working in his facility and was quickly repaired, while Julie and her fellow inmates were simply expected to live without air conditioning.
However, that doesn’t mean that it was all smooth sailing for Todd, who made it clear on the podcast that he was not a fan of the workers at his Pensacola prison.
“I was surrounded by miserable human beings,” he said. “And every day, I got up and it was my sole intent to make their life even more miserable because they were there to make our lives miserable.”
Todd and Julie were both released from prison on May 28, 2025, one day after President Donald Trump announced he would be pardoning the couple after they each served more than two years of their sentences for tax evasion and bank fraud.
So far, Federal Medical Center hasn’t responded to Julie’s claims, but if her story is true, it sounds like a difficult ordeal for everyone involved.
