To avoid eating food made for the prison’s general population, Todd cooks his meals using ingredients purchased with his own money from the commissary. Still, he alleged, staff has been “cutting down” on the amount of food he can buy per week.

“I eat tuna, I eat peanut butter—that’s where I get protein,” the 54-year-old said. “And then I start over again doing the same thing the next week.”

But Todd alleged the mistreatment spanned beyond chow time, claiming that someone once attempted to extort his family from behind bars.

“There was a photograph taken of me while I was sleeping and sent to my daughter,” he alleged, “asking for $2,600 dollars a month for my protection.”

E! News has reached out to Pensacola Federal Prison Camp for comment but hasn’t heard back.

Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were found guilty in June 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks and taking out millions of dollars’ worth of personal loans using false bank statements. He reported to his prison in January, while Julie—who he married in 1996—began her sentence at a different federal prison in Lexington, Ky.

Their attorney Jay Surgent said in September that the couple’s sentences were shortened, with Todd’s initial 12-year entence down to 10 and Julie’s seven-year sentence down to five.

Todd and Julie are working to appeal their convictions from prison, leaving their 26-year-old daughter Savannah Chrisley to care for their son Grayson, 17, and granddaughter Chloe, 11.

“That has been really tough,” Savannah shared during a recent episode of her Unlocked podcast, “especially going to visit mom and dad and being in a relationship and feeling like I want something for myself at times.”

She added, “I have this layer of guilt that weights over me like, ‘Oh my gosh, you have to go see and them. Like, how selfish of you?’ I’m the angel on one side and devil on the other, of just this constant battle of feeling what I’m doing isn’t enough.”

Keep reading to see the Chrisley family through the years.