{"id":251474,"date":"2026-07-12T01:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/josh-duggar-moved-to-another-federal-prison-his-fifth-in-five-years\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:28:39","slug":"josh-duggar-moved-to-another-federal-prison-his-fifth-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/josh-duggar-moved-to-another-federal-prison-his-fifth-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Duggar Moved to Another Federal Prison, His Fifth in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/tags\/josh-duggar\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Josh Duggar<\/strong><\/a> has been transferred for the fifth time as he continues serving his federal prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former <em>19 Kids and Counting<\/em> star, 38, is now being held at FCI Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, according to court records obtained by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/josh-duggar-transferred-to-5th-prison-in-5-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Us Weekly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told KNWA TV that <strong>Duggar<\/strong> was moved from the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City to the Ohio facility on Wednesday (July 8). The BOP classifies FCI Elkton as a low-security federal correctional institution with an adjacent low-security satellite facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marks <strong>Duggar<\/strong>&#8216;s latest move since his April 2021 arrest. After initially being held at the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas, he spent most of his sentence at FCI Seagoville in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was later transferred to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth before temporarily being housed in Oklahoma City. Officials have not publicly explained the transfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duggar<\/strong> was found guilty in December 2021 of receiving and possession child sexual abuse material. He was sentence in May 2022 to 151 months in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has continued challenging the conviction. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the ruling in August 2023, and the Supreme Court declined to hear his case in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duggar <\/strong>has maintained his innocence and previously argued that errors were made in the handling of forensic evidence at trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out what the former reality star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/08\/josh-duggar-wife-annas-nsfw-jail-text-messages-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly wrote in his NSFW jail text messages to wife <strong>Anna Duggar<\/strong><\/a>, including the photos he reportedly asked her to send him.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/11\/josh-duggar-moved-to-another-federal-prison-his-fifth-in-five-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Duggar Moved to Another Federal Prison, His Fifth in Five Years<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/11\/josh-duggar-moved-to-another-federal-prison-his-fifth-in-five-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Josh Duggar has been transferred for the fifth time as he continues serving his federal prison sentence. The former 19 Kids and Counting star, 38, is now being held at FCI Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, according to court records obtained by Us Weekly. A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told KNWA TV that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}