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Since he was convicted in December 2021, Josh Duggar has been convinced that the justice system is out to get him, and now, he’s projecting those feelings on the federal prison where he’s been serving time out his sentence so far. Josh was transferred to a medical facility at the end of May, and he’s apparently convinced that it was FCI Seagoville’s way of retaliating against him for exposing their shady practices.
Josh was transferred to FMC Fort Worth on May 29.
He was moved to the same medical prison facility that Tiger King star Joe Exotic has been held just as judge Timothy L. Brooks shut down his latest appeal in court. There was some speculation that Josh’s mental health may have been in crisis after finding out that his last ditch attempt to get out of serving his full sentence had backfired on him, but the reason for his transfer was never concerned.
And according to Josh’s attorney, his theory is that it was his appeal that made Seagoville send him packing, but not for the reason that those following along with his case might have thought.
He thinks the real reason for the transfer was payback.
Speaking to TMZ, Josh’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, said that he and Josh believe that he was transferred to Fort Worth because Josh drew attention to glaring issues with the prison’s mail system in his appeal and now, Seagoville is retaliating.
His attorney added that after speaking to Josh last week, he confirmed that he is “not sick with any illness,” so why else would he be transferred to a medical facility?
After the news of Josh’s transfer broke, an insider told vlogger Katie Joy of Without a Crystal Ball that the decision to send him elsewhere was made after he’d gotten into all kinds of trouble in Seagoville.
“Because Seagoville is low security they are not equipped to handle an inmate like Josh,” Katie Joy wrote in an Instagram post she shared on June 1. “Josh became a danger and threat to the facility’s security — allegedly — and he’s now at FMC Fort Worth. This facility is a hold over facility & my source believes that Josh may be eventually transferred to Colorado to a medium security facility.”
Josh is launching yet another appeal.
At this point, it seems like Josh has filed a dozen appeals that ended up going nowhere, but it sounds like he’s not tired of hitting a brick wall over and over again just yet.
On Wednesday, the Texarkana Gazette reported that on Monday, Josh filed to appeal the judge’s decision to shut down his last appeal. The judge denied his motion to vacate, ruling that his explanation for sending in the paperwork past the due date wasn’t credible, and Josh just isn’t letting go.
We can all probably predict where this new appeal is going to end up, but it doesn’t seem like Josh is willing to give up on his dream of getting out early.
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