'RHONJ' Star Teresa Giudice To Serve 15 Month Prison Term In 'OITNB' Prison In Danbury, CT

MStars News has learned that Teresa Giudice will officially serve her prison time in the famous Orange Is The New Black prison.

According to TMZ, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star has been ordered by a New Jersey judge to serve her time behind bars in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, CT.

MStars News previously reported that Giudice asked the judge to spend 12 of her 15 months at a halfway house, but that has been denied as the mother of four girls will go to prison.

According to NJ.com, Judge Salas revealed that the reality star should have asked about a halfway house during her October 2 sentencing.

The judge said claims that her request still would have more than likely denied.

"The issue was never raised and it was never before the court," Salas stated.

The RHONJ star's attorney, Stacy Ann Biancamano, said her client would have made the request, but was unaware that she could've asked for the request.

"She really wasn't fully understanding of how the sentencing process works," Biancamano claims.

The Bureau of Prisons will ultimately make the choice to send Giudice to a halfway house for part of her 15-month sentence. "The Bureau of Prisons will handle their affairs as they see fit," Salas instructed.

Teresa is supposed to start her prison sentence on January 5, 2015. After she completes her time, her husband Joe Giudice will begin serving his 41-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.

In a letter to Judge Salas Tuesday, assistant U.S. attorneys Rachael Honig and Jonathan Romankow wanted to prevent Giudice to from serving at a halfway house.

"It was clearly not the Court's intention at the sentencing in this matter to sentence defendant to serve all or virtually all of her sentence in a halfway house," the prosecutors wrote.

"The Court made detailed, express findings on the record about the need to sentence defendant to jail...," the two continued. " To amend the judgment now to include a recommendation of 12 months in a halfway house would be to undercut all of these findings completely."

Danbury is a minimum-security prison that is the home to 218 inmates. Another 800 inmates are located at the low-security prison right beside Danbury. The OITNB prison is about 80 miles from Teresa's Montville home, where she lives with Joe, and their four daughters.

On Monday, Biancamano sent a letter to Salas after learning that Teresa could have been sent to prison's in Brooklyn or Manhattan where her freedom would have been cut off.

At Giudice's sentencing, Salas asked Giudice's former lawyer, Henry Klingeman, if his client should serve her time in Danbury or West Virginia.

After speaking asking Giudice, Klingeman requested that Giudice wasn't sent to any specific facility that was named, Salas shared said Wednesday.

Salas made her sentencing very firm, and has not changed her mind since October 2.

"I have set forth rather specifically and explicitly the reasoning for the sentence that I provided and I don't think anything has changed since October 2," said Judge Salas. "The only thing that has changed is counsel."

What's weird, the OITNB lead character Piper Chapman served a similiar sentence. She was sentenced to 15 months at Danbury for money laudering, according to TMZ.