Julie Chrisley Once Got ‘Locked’ in Her Prison Cafeteria, and Daughter Savannah Claims They ‘Did It on Purpose’

Julie Chrisley wasn’t getting any special treatment during her time behind bars.

Just over a month after she and her husband, Todd Chrisley, were released from prison, the couple sat down with their daughter Savannah for the July 1 episode of her Unlocked podcast. As they opened up about their differing experiences while incarcerated, Savannah, 27, recalled a particularly unsettling incident involving Julie at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Ky.

“I will never forget at the very beginning, you called me, and you were all to pieces because that one a—— C.O. [correctional officer],” Savannah claimed.

“Oh yeah, he was a food service [worker],” Julie added. “Yeah. He’s since retired.”

Savannah claimed Julie was intentionally targeted by the staff member.

Savannah alleged that “he did it because he was pissed off at her — he did it on purpose.”

“He was just a miserable human being, he really was,” Julie claimed before Todd, who said he would have filed a “BP-8” administrative complaint, added, “They all are.”

The Federal Medical Center did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.

“I was surrounded by miserable human beings,” he alleged of his time at Florida’s Federal Prison Camp Pensacola. “And every day, I got up and it was my sole intent to make their life even more miserable because they were there to make our lives miserable.”

While both he and Julie, who were living in separate facilities, explained that there were also “a handful” of inmates who tried to befriend prison staff, they said they never felt that way.

“They are not your friends, that’s for sure,” Julie noted.

They claimed that men and women are not treated equally in prison.

In comparing her parents’ overall experiences, Savannah claimed that she observed Julie receive “harsher” treatment than Todd.

“I think that’s the way that it is for women in general,” the family patriarch said.

When Savannah cited Julie’s longer appeal process and the lack of air conditioning in the facility, Todd highlighted that he complained about the heat and had new AC units installed within a week.

“We didn’t have that option to even get [it] repaired, because we didn’t have it to begin with,” Julie said.

The pair had been in federal custody since January 2023 after they were found guilty on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud and sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison (this number was later reduced by about two years each).

Then, on May 27 of this year, President Donald Trump issued them full pardons. They returned home the next day and have maintained their innocence throughout the entire process.

“Even though this pardon has happened, I still was convicted of something that I did not do,” Todd said at a press conference on May 30. “It could be you, it could be you, it could be any of you, and somewhere in this room, someone has had a family member that has been affected by the system. So I understand the shame that’s around it, but I refuse to feed into that, because shame is like a cancer that just spreads, and I have no shame.”