Josh Duggar gets to call this new facility bond till the court says otherwise!
The convicted sex offender has reportedly been moved for the fourth time to another prison five years into his 151-month sentence after his attorney made some heavy claims against authorities for his previous transfer.
Josh Duggar was convicted in 2022 after he was arrested in 2021 for receiving and possessing child sex abuse material. He was accused of inappropriately touching five underage girls, including four of his sisters, as a teen in 2015.
Inside Josh Duggar’s Latest Transfer To Oklahoma Prison
On Monday, June 29, US Weekly confirmed that Josh has now been transferred from Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The sex offender’s journey through multiple facilities began when he was moved to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Seagoville, Texas, upon receiving his 151-month sentence in 2022.
Prior to this time, he was initially confined at the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas after he was arrested in April 2021 and charged with one count of receiving child sex abuse material.
From there, US Weekly added that Josh was briefly moved to FMC in Fort Worth weeks ago as part of an alleged routine transfer process preceding his fresh move to FTC in Oklahoma City. As for his freedom, the reality TV personality’s release date is still set for February 2033.
The TLC Alum’s New Home May Be A Temporary Arrangement
The Oklahoma City prison is considered a temporary holdover facility, meaning it is unlikely to be Duggar’s final destination as he continues serving his nearly 13-year federal sentence. Following the latest transfer, Duggar’s attorney, Beau Brindley, argued that the repeated transfers appear to be retaliatory.
He alleged that his client’s nightmares with incessant transfers began because prison officials at Seagoville violated rules by accessing mail sent to Duggar. Brindley stressed that upon making a report about it in a recent court hearing, he was notified shortly afterward that Duggar would be relocated.
The Bureau of Prisons has not connected the transfer to those allegations; instead, a spokesperson previously explained that inmates can be moved for several reasons. These reasons include medical needs, institutional security, or measures intended to protect inmates and maintain safety within federal facilities.
Josh Duggar’s Attorney Shuts Down Health Concern Claims After Surprise Fort Worth Transfer
As reported by The Blast earlier in June, Duggar’s lawyer reacted to his transfer to Fort Worth, a facility that provides medical and mental healthcare to inmates in need.
Duggar’s sudden transfer reportedly raised questions about the state of his health, to which Brindley insisted his client was of sound health and does not require any treatment that would make the facility his appropriate spot.
Meanwhile, Duggar has registered his own concerns since being behind bars, which bothered him financially. According to court records, Duggar had just 22 cents in his prison account at the time he filed, alongside reports that he was not making money from any job, nor did he have any other source of income.
The convicted sex offender further claimed that financial support from family and friends had stopped, and this lack of assistance affected his ability to use the prison commissary. He also said he is still on the hook for money owed from past court cases.
The 38-Year-Old’s Appeal Crumbled After Judge Slammed It As Not Credible
In early June, The Blast shared that Duggar hit a crushing defeat in his bid to have his 151-month conviction overturned by a federal judge. Judge Timothy L. Brooks threw out Duggar’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated in the legal proceedings, which meant he will continue serving his federal prison sentence.
One of the factors in the decision was the timing of Duggar’s appeal, as records show that the Attorney’s Office did not get the documents until July 29, 2025, about a month after the deadline, and the court did not receive them until August.
Duggar said the filing should still be deemed timely under the prison mailbox rule, which provides that certain inmate filings are timely if they are in the prison mailbox before the deadline.
That argument was rejected by Judge Brooks, who insisted that Duggar’s explanation of how and when the appeal was mailed did not meet the legal requirements for the exception.
In addition, the judge found Duggar’s account of what happened on the day the filing was made to be inconsistent and implausible.
A Look At Every Appeal Josh Duggar Has Lost Since His 2022 Conviction
Duggar has spent years attempting to overturn his conviction through multiple appeals, all of which have been unsuccessful.
The first appeal was taken to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in June 2022. Duggar’s attorney, Justin Gelfand, then filed another motion challenging the guilty verdict a few months later, in October, but these moves proved abortive.
In August 2023, a three-judge panel upheld Duggar’s conviction on charges related to child sexual abuse material. He then applied for a re-hearing before the higher appellate court, which was also dismissed.
The next February, Duggar appealed to the US Supreme Court, arguing that it should review the lower court’s ruling, only for it to be dismissed in June 2024. The most recent case involved a petition Duggar filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas asking for his conviction to be thrown out.
The filing raised eight separate arguments, including a claim that his former attorneys were ineffective because they failed to question another individual who had access to the computer where investigators found the illegal images.