Hunter Biden likely sent to ‘laid back’ seaside California prison if given time: expert
If Hunter Biden goes to prison, it will likely be a short stay at a cushy California facility where he’ll have access to yoga classes, the ocean-breeze, and maybe even a private wing to live alongside his secret service detail, legal experts predict.
Biden, 54, was found guilty Tuesday of lying about his drug addiction to obtain a firearm in 2018.
The felony charges could fetch him up to 25 years in prison, but as they’re his first convictions it’s unlikely he would receive the maximum sentence — if any sentence at all.
“My guess is they would send him to Lompoc,” said Wall Street Prison Consultants director Larry Levine, referring to Federal Corrections Institute Lompoc on the sunny California coast about two hours northwest of Biden’s Malibu home. “It’s a prime location.”
“It’s nice. I was there. It’s near the ocean, it’s got good climate, it’s a park-like setting. It’s laid back,” said Levine, who himself served 10 years in 11 different federal prisons for narcotics and gun charges.
“There’s an airport nearby, the food’s not that bad. The staff isn’t cuckoo.”
Levine told The Post, based on his knowledge of federal sentencing, the president’s son will go to jail but likely not for more than 36 months, which with good behavior would see him out in half that time.
FCI Lompoc is the same prison where “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin’s husband Mossimo Giannulli served several months for his part in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal in 2021.
“Normally somebody with a gun charge, they would send you to a low security institution,” Levine said, but speculated somebody as high profile as Biden would likely be sent to a minimum security camp like Lompoc.
“It’s not like you’re going to summer camp, but they don’t lock the doors. It’s a lot of white collar people hanging out, talking about their crimes.”
At Lompoc Biden would be able to exercise at the prison gym and track, enjoy yoga, or while away the hours reading from the library or having books sent in.
He would likely have access to up to five visits per month, Levine said, which could last anywhere from two to six hours. Biden would also be permitted about 500 minutes of phone calls each month.
During the day he’d likely be assigned a prison job, which could range from cleaning dishes in the prison cafeteria and working the food line, being a janitor, or doing clerical work, all for about $5.25 an hour.
As Biden is the son of the President of the United States — the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime — he is entitled to a Secret Service detail which would likely follow him into the prison, an arrangement which could fetch him his own private quarters separated from the rest of the prison population.
“He’s not going to live in the normal housing unit, they can put him in his own room,” said Levine. “They might cordon off an area or have him living in an office.”
“They will put him in a bunk, and he will have two or three secret service officers living with him.”
Other similar prisons Biden could find himself include the low security FCI Terminal Island in Los Angles — which has a reputation as a cushy stay for white collar criminals like Theranos COO Sunny Balwani —or FCI Victorville Camp, a minimum security facility about two hours north of Malibu.
