Martha Stewart went to prison for five months. She was sentenced in 2004 for charges related to lying and obstruction of justice in connection with a stock trade. Stewart served her five-month sentence at the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, from October 8, 2004, until her release on March 4, 2005
. After her prison term, she was also subject to five months of home confinement at her residence in Bedford, New York, and two years of supervised probation. During home confinement, she was allowed to leave her house for up to 48 hours per week for work-related activities while wearing an electronic monitoring device
