Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is a free woman. Today, the actress was released from a federal prison in Dublin, California, after serving 11 days of a two-week sentence. She had been sentenced for her part in the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scam, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Huffman, who had reported to prison on October 15, was the first of the more than 30 parents charged in the far-reaching criminal case to serve a prison sentence. She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for paying a proctor $15,000 to boost her daughter's SAT scores.

She was freed thanks to a bureau policy that enables inmates to leave before a release date that "falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, on the last preceding weekday unless it is necessary to detain the inmate for another jurisdiction seeking custody under a detainer, or for any other reason which might indicate that the inmate should not be released until the inmate's scheduled release date," according to the BOP.

A photo of the actress, whose prison number was 77806-112, was published earlier this week. It showed her wearing glasses, black Under Armour shoes, a white hat, a watch, and a dark green button-down jumpsuit. Martha Stewart, who served prison time in 2004 for lying to investigators about a stock sale, commented on Huffman during a talk at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit on Tuesday. “Well, she should style her outfit a little bit more,” Stewart joked. “She looked pretty schlumpy.” Stewart added that Huffman made a “horrible mistake” and was suffering the consequences.

The actress will continue serving the remainder of her sentence — one year of supervised release, with conditions including 250 hours of community service — immediately. In a letter to the court, Huffman had apologized for the crime and stated, "In my desperation to be a good mother I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot. I see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter and failed my family."

During sentencing, Huffman apologized to the court, her daughters and her husband, actor William H. Macy. "I am deeply ashamed of what I have done," she told the judge. "At the end of the day, I had a choice to make. I could have said, 'no.'"

In a press release, Huffman said, "There are no excuses or justifications for my actions. Period. And I especially want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices supporting their children."

The federal correctional institution in Dublin is a "low security" prison with 1,235 female inmates in Alameda County, just 35 miles outside of San Francisco. Eleven parents so far have pleaded guilty to conspiracy fraud, while others, such as Fuller House star Lori Loughlin, who faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted, are fighting the charges.

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Punishments for those sentenced have ranged from five months in prison for Agustin Huneeus Jr., who participated in both exam cheating and athlete-recruitment bribery, to no prison time for Peter Jan Sartorio, who paid $15,000 to have answers revised on his daughter's SAT exam.