Savannah Chrisley Claims Prison Officials Have Blocked Todd Chrisley From Contacting Wife Julie Chrisley: “It Just Makes It Really Difficult”

Savannah Chrisley is hopeful that her parents Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley will be coming home from prison sooner than expected.

The couple reported to jail in January 2023 after getting convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion. Todd is currently serving a reduced 10-year sentence in Florida, while Julie is serving a reduced 5-year sentence in Kentucky. But with an Atlanta federal appeals court agreeing to hear oral arguments on their case, Savannah believes they could get released as early as this summer.

“Looking forward to our appeal April 19,” Savannah told Entertainment Tonight following her elimination from The Masked Singer. “Obviously, I hope to have them home, maybe later in the summer.”

It’s been over a year since Todd and Julie reported to prison, and according to Savannah, they haven’t spoken to each other since the morning they began their respective sentences. While they both have access to email, the former Chrisley Knows Best star claimed there has been “a lot of retaliation going on against my father for how outspoken we’ve been about conditions,” per E! News. She further alleged that prison officials have been “blocking a lot of his email correspondence to my mom,” which “makes it really difficult.”

Todd broke his silence in December 2023 when he spoke out about the prison’s poor living conditions in an interview with NewsNation‘s senior national correspondent Brian Entin. He slammed the facility’s “disgustingly filthy” food and claimed they were limiting his commissary funds. In a follow-up interview, Savannah accused higher-ups of retaliating against her father by “planting cellphones, drugs, going through his lockers, so that they can send him to a [different] facility and truly behind bars.”

While speaking with Page Six recently, Savannah admitted her mindset was “so ignorant” before her parents were sent to jail.

“I was so tone-deaf. I lived such a privileged life,” she said. “I didn’t [ever] have to endure any of these things, and so, to me, if it wasn’t happening to me, it wasn’t happening at all.”

But now the reality star, who is considering attending law school once her parents are released, is speaking out against the “abuse” that goes on in prisons.

“It really started to alarm me just how broken and abusive our system is,” she said. “When you go in and you actually look at the abuse, the sexual abuse … the fact that they’re consuming food that says not for human consumption … we should not have a system that is full of abuse.”

Savannah added, “We’re abusing our own men and women, and that is not something that I can stand for. Regardless of what someone has done, there should be no place and time that our taxpayer dollars are going to basically subsidize abusive behavior.”