Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman will be ‘traumatizing,’ experts say by Suzy Byrne

It looks like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman will at least be doing some time in federal prison for their parts in this college admissions scandal. And while the public generally has the perception that it will be a walk in the park for the celebrities, experts — including one who has served time in federal prison — say that’s just not true.

Those who follow celebrity legal matters have come to expect stars to spend just hours or minutes behind bars for misdeeds (see: Khloé Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie). And because Operation Varsity Blues scandal is a bribery case based on the elite, including these actresses, paying huge sums of money to unlawfully get their children into college (with Loughlin paying out $500,000 and Huffman dropping $15,000), people think they’ll buy their way out of this, too.

However, it doesn’t seem to be the case. Huffman’s plea deal reportedly stipulates some prison time (the federal guidelines suggest in the zero to six month range) and Loughlin, who shunned a deal only to be slapped with an additional charge, faces around five years, a legal expert says. We are talking about federal crimes here, and in a time when Americans are fed up with white privilege.

“Federal prison is night and day from state prison,” attorney Debra Bogaards of Bogaards Law in San Francisco tells Yahoo Entertainment. “When celebrities like Huffman and Loughlin are incarcerated in federal prison…