Josh Duggar's 2032 prison release date has been pushed back by 10 days

• Josh Duggar's scheduled prison release date has been pushed back, according to prison records.
• The former reality-TV star was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for receiving child pornography.

The former reality-TV star Josh Duggar has had his 2032 prison release date pushed back by 10 days, according to federal Bureau of Prisons records.

Duggar, 35, was convicted in 2021 of receiving child pornography, and sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. His original prison release date was set for August 12, 2032, and Bureau of Prisons records now show his release date as August 22, 2032.

Once a star of the former TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting," Duggar was arrested on child pornography charges after years of scandal. In 2015, InTouch reported that he had been accused of molesting his sisters when he was a juvenile, and Duggar issued an apology saying he had "acted inexcusably."

It's unclear why Duggar's prison release date was extended, and the Bureau of Prisons declined to provide further details. But tabloids have reported that Duggar was recently penalized for having a cell phone and was placed in solitary confinement.

Duggar's attorney did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the release date.

The news comes amid Duggar's efforts to appeal his child-pornography conviction. Prosecutors successfully argued at trial that Duggar personally downloaded hundreds of pieces of child sexual abuse material to his office computer, including material involving children under the age of 12 and one as young as an infant, and that he went to great lengths to evade detection.

But during a February appeals court hearing, Duggar's attorneys argued that their client's rights were violated multiple times during his prosecution.

The Duggar team has argued that he was deprived of his right to speak with his lawyer once in 2019, while federal agents were executing a search warrant of the Arkansas car dealership Duggar owned. Duggar's lawyers say federal agents seized the phone that Duggar wanted to use to phone his attorney, resulting in him making several incriminating statements that were used against him at trial.

During the February hearing, prosecutors said federal agents had explicitly told Duggar he was free to leave the scene and was not required to answer questions without an attorney present.

Duggar's team also argued that their client was unable to present a complete defense at trial because a trial judge prevented them from presenting their theory that one of Duggar's former friends was to blame for downloading the child pornography.

Prosecutors refuted those claims too, arguing that Duggar's former friend had a cast-iron alibi that would have made it impossible for him to be responsible for the child pornography on Duggar's computer.

It's unclear when the Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on Duggar's efforts to overturn his conviction.