Todd Chrisley is opening up from behind bars about life in prison, and how his sentence is affecting his family on the outside. The 54-year-old was able to answer questions through his lawyer, Brian Entin, for an interview on Chris Cuomo’s News Nation show Cuomo.
The reality star got candid about his experience in the current facility that he's in, and also claimed that someone had demanded a monthly payment from his daughter in order for him to stay protected while in the prison facility.
“There was a photograph taken of me while I was sleeping and sent to my daughter," the reality star alleged. He went on to say that the person asked for $2,600 a month for his protection.
Todd's youngest daughter, Savannah Chrisley, 26, was granted custody of her younger brother, Grayson, 17, and her niece Chloe, 10. She has been open about her parents' prison sentences.
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In January 2023, Savannah had mentioned that her father's prison conditions were good and he was making productive use of his time by serving in the chapel. By July, she said that the prison conditions at both her parents' facilities had changed, noting “black mold, asbestos, lead-based paint, snakes.”
Todd mentioned dealing with the filth of the facility in his interview. “It is so disgustingly filthy. The food is literally, I’m not exaggerating … the food is dated, and it’s out of date by, at minimum, a year,” he said. “It’s a year past expiration. And they are literally starving these men to death here. These men are getting, I don’t know, they are getting a thousand calories a day.”
“You’ve got rats, you’ve got squirrels in the storage facility where the food is,” the reality star continued. “They just covered it up with plastic and then tore the ceiling out because of all the black mold and found a dead cat in the ceiling, and it dropped down on the top of the food.”
In the past, Todd had been able to use his own money to purchase food at the prison’s commissary. “I eat tuna, I eat peanut butter — that’s where I get protein. I eat, like, a pasta salad that I make (from) pasta that I get in commissary. And then I start over again doing the same thing the next week.”
But new staff at the prison facility are trying to "humble" him by withholding his commissary privileges, the star claims. “I’ve been told this by a staff member: one of the ways she’s trying to break me is by cutting down what you can buy in commissary,” he said. “So, before she came here, you could buy 12 packs of tuna a week. She cut it down to six, and from six, it went to three. She had not given a reason — when I asked her about it, she said commissary is a privilege, not a right.”
Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, are serving sentences for for fraud and tax evasion. He is currently at Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, Florida, while she is at Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
