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One Woman’s Experience as a Federal Prison Inmate, and Her Return:  A Discussion with Portia Louder
38 minutes Posted May 18, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail In 2007, FBI agents showed up at the home of Portia Louder and her husband Chad. Their youngest of five children was just three months old at the time. Seven years later, in August 2014, Louder pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy. And on the morning of April 21, 2015, she and Chad left their home in Utah on a 14-hour drive to the facility where Louder would self-surrender in order to commence her seven-year sentence.