Joseph Duggar, the disgraced former reality star of 19 Kids and Counting fame, is reportedly being held in solitary confinement at the Washington County Detention Facility in Arkansas.
In a recorded phone conversation obtained by People, Duggar, 31, described the conditions of his life behind bars to wife Kendra Duggar as he awaits extradition to Florida.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time reading, uh, reading the Bible, they got me a Bible in here,” Joseph whispered during the March 20 phone call. “I’m in solitary.”
Joseph—who shares four children with his wife—claimed he’s been forced to spend “23 hours of the day” in “an 8-by-10” cell.
“Pretty small area, but I’ve been able to read a lot actually, and resting some, but I’m not sleeping great through the night,” Joseph added, per People.
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Joe, the seventh child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older following an incident that allegedly took place during a family vacation to Florida in 2020.
Two days later, Joseph and Kendra, 27, were hit with four counts each of false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child in their hometown of Tontitown, Arkansas.
According to Washington County Sheriff’s, the charges were not connected to Joseph’s Florida case, but were discovered during the investigation into those allegations.
While Joseph was already behind bars, Kendra was booked into custody on March 20. She was released from the facility just hours before the recorded phone call with her husband.
Kendra is due in court on April 29.