Escapee Sentenced to Additional Prison Time

MADISON, WIS. - Chadwick M. Elgersma, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joseph Hoult, 39, Urbana, Illinois, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10 months in federal prison for escaping from a community corrections facility. Hoult's sentence will run consecutive to his remaining undischarged sentence. Hoult plead guilty to this charge on July 8, 2026.

On December 20, 2013, Hoult was sentenced to federal prison by a judge in the Central District of Illinois. Hoult was transferred to a community corrections facility in the Western District of Wisconsin on October 24, 2025. On November 30, 2025, Hoult removed his GPS monitoring device and escaped from the community corrections facility. Hoult remained undetected until his arrest on March 18, 2026.

At sentencing Judge Conley explained that a period of additional incarceration was warranted given Hoult's troubling decision to escape.

The charge against Hoult was the result of an investigation conducted by the United States Marshals Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Reinhard prosecuted this case.