Lori Loughlin's husband, Mossimo Giannulli, has been moved from isolation to a minimum-security camp. The fashion designer was moved to general population after he was quarantined for two months upon reporting to a Santa Barbara prison on Nov. 19 to serve five months for his role in the college admissions scandal, according to court documents obtained by Yahoo! Entertainment.
A filing from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling on Tuesday explained that Giannulli spent an extended period in quarantine because he had been exposed to other inmates with COVID-19 and then later complained of symptoms of the virus.
Giannulli was tested for COVID-19 upon entering the prison and then again 14 days later, and the tests came back negative. However, shortly after he was moved to general population, Giannulli was put back into quarantine for an additional 14 days after nine others in his initial quarantine unit tested positive. It was during that time that he reported suffering from a headache and loss of his sense of smell, which are both COVID-19 symptoms, according to the filing.
He was moved to an isolation unit where he was allowed access to "books, mail, and a television and could communicate with other inmates in isolation through their cells," the documents stated. On Jan. 11 he was tested again and released from isolation to an adjacent minimum security camp on Jan. 13 after the test results came back negative.
Giannulli is now permitted to go outside anytime between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. He is also allowed outside his dormitory until 9 p.m., the document noted.
The filing comes days after Giannulli's attorneys requested that he spend the remainder of his five-month prison sentence in home confinement. Backing the request was that he spent those several weeks in solitary confinement, which made "extraordinary and compelling reasons for the Court to grant Mr. Giannulli's requested relief," according to legal documents cited by Fox News.
In response, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will "assess whether Giannulli is a suitable candidate for home confinement" and will do so "in the ordinary course of assessing how to reduce the inmate population during the pandemic," Tuesday's filing stated.
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