We recently learned that Josh Duggar had been removed from the general population at Seagoville Federal Correctional Institution and placed in a Special Housing Unit. Now, it seems we know what landed Josh in such hot water, and honestly, he should've known better.
Josh was sent to ancillary housing last week.
Friends and families of inmates apparently reached out to vlogger Katie Joy of Without a Crystal Ball to tell her that Josh had been sent to the area designated for those who have been caught violating the prison's rules or those who were deemed to be in physical danger.
Nobody knew exactly what had happened, so we were only able to speculate about what could've gone down — until now.
There were some theories that Josh had been caught having a relationship with another inmate.
"His placement can be for protective custody at his request or the request of a staff believing his presence on the yard poses a danger to his safety," Katie wrote at the time.
"Additionally, the SHU is also used for discipline when an inmate breaks rules. The most common placement for an offender like Josh would be having contraband like a phone or sex with another inmate. According to my sources, Josh is not a fighter."
It appears Josh was caught with contraband.
The real reason behind Josh's exile to the SHU seems to have to do with being in possession of something he wasn't allowed to have.
"Josh Duggar was caught in prison with an illegal phone," Katie wrote in an update about the story. "According to people with loved ones at Seagoville, guards caught [him] playing with the phone while he was in his room."
Josh reportedly didn't even try to hide the fact that he had the illegal phone.
Unlike previous brushes with the law, Josh didn't even bother denying responsibility when he got caught. Katie posted a screenshot of an exchange between herself and a family member of another prisoner, indicating that she'd gotten the intel from someone with direct knowledge of what had gone down.
This is also leading to questions about what Josh might be doing with the phone. And given the nature of his crimes, even after he's released from prison, Josh is not supposed to have any "electronic device that has Internet or photograph storage capabilities without prior advance notice and approval of the U.S. Probation Office," which would include a phone.
Getting caught with a phone may result in an extension of his sentence.
We're sure being remanded to disciplinary housing where Josh's freedoms are even further restricted isn't fun, but we have to imagine that the real pain is going to be learning whether this will tack more time onto his 151-month sentence.
Josh may have just landed himself a bit more time away from his family with this stunt. We can't imagine Anna is going to be too happy to learn that her husband may be away for even longer than she thought.
