American basketball player Jarred Shaw hoping for 'miracle' in Indonesian prison as health crisis worsens

Jarred Shaw, a 35-year-old American hoops subordinate who utilized to prima for Oklahoma State and Utah State, remains locked up successful an Indonesian prison, and his wellness is deteriorating arsenic helium tries desperately to instrumentality location to the States. 

Shaw was arrested successful May 2025 aft what helium called a "stupid mistake" to The Guardian, ordering a bundle of 132 cannabis gummies to his flat successful Indonesia. He was playing hoops successful the state but was surviving successful Thailand, wherever cannabis is legal, during the Indonesian Basketball League’s offseason.

However, Indonesia remains an highly strict state with its cause laws, arsenic astir 276,000 radical are imprisoned for a cause offense. And cannabis is considered the aforesaid arsenic heroin and methamphetamine by the Indonesian government, careless of its ineligible presumption successful the U.S. and crossed galore European countries. 

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Jarred Shaw looks connected portion handcuffed successful Indonesia. (Vlasic Labs)

The crushed Shaw ordered truthful galore gummies was owed to his suffering from Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel illness that affects the digestive tract. Cannabis has been known to alleviate pugnacious symptoms of the disease, and helium would unafraid it legally to bash so. 

But erstwhile the bundle went to his flat successful Indonesia, wherever helium became a hoops prima aft spending seasons anterior successful Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Japan, among different countries, Shaw was publically shamed pursuing his arrest. He was paraded successful beforehand of Indonesian media wearing an orangish situation shirt, and adjacent faced the decease penalty. 

"I privation I could spell backmost and alteration my actions, but it was decidedly a alleviation to cognize I wasn’t getting the decease penalty," helium told The Guardian. 

While helium avoided the harsh decease penalty, Shaw remains successful what helium told USA TODAY is simply a country "no bigger than a emblematic New York City workplace apartment" with 11 different inmates.  

"I tin aftermath up immoderate infinitesimal and beryllium hospitalized," Shaw told the outlet, arsenic Crohn’s illness tin origin terrible diarrhea, fatigue, value nonaccomplishment and malnutrition. "Some days are amended than others. It’s not wherever it needs to be. I inactive consciousness sick rather often. I americium asking for sympathy, and hopefully a occurrence tin happen."

Shaw told the outlet helium has already mislaid 40 pounds from his 245-pound playing weight. Also, radical with Crohn’s are astatine precocious hazard for colorectal cancer. 

Jarred Shaw walks retired of a van portion arrested successful Indonesia. (Vlasic Labs)

In November 2025, Shaw was assessed by a doc who recovered helium was battling abdominal pain, mild anemia, and helium tested affirmative for an E coli infection, causing diarrhea, bleeding and fever. 

Shaw told The Guardian helium isn’t getting due nutrition, and the fried nutrient he’s eating isn’t sitting good with his Crohn’s. 

Four months aft the doctor’s diagnosis, Shaw inactive hasn’t received the colonoscopy, an intestinal ultrasound, and different tests the aesculapian nonrecreational recommended. It would necessitate a minimum three-day enactment successful the hospital.

"We’re trying to get them to understand," helium said. "Even though there’s nary cure for [Crohn’s], you person to dainty it, oregon it could get worse. Hopefully idiosyncratic with higher powerfulness tin astatine slightest assistance maine get to the hospital."

Shaw told USA TODAY that helium understands helium committed a transgression and didn’t cognize what the laws were successful Indonesia. But helium feels "what’s astir important" is the information helium hasn’t gone to a infirmary to dainty his sickness, which was besides brought up during his trial.

Utah State Aggies halfway Jarred Shaw (5) jumps to drawback a rebound during an NCAA men's hoops crippled against the UNLV Runnin' Rebels astatine Thomas & Mack Center. (Stephen R. Sylvanie/USA TODAY Sports)

Shaw’s ineligible squad is petitioning Indonesia’s curate of wellness to see a compassionate release, pointing retired his practice successful tribunal and deficiency of transgression grounds anterior to arrest. 

The State Department besides made a remark connected Shaw’s case. 

"The Trump Administration has nary higher precedence than Americans’ information and security," a State Department spokesperson told a root adjacent to Shaw. "We instrumentality earnestly our committedness to assistance Americans abroad, and the U.S. Embassy successful Jakarta is providing consular assistance to Jarred Shaw."

The Vlasic Classic Foundation, which is committed to helping non-violent cannabis prisoners get out, partnered with Forgotten Prisoner successful an effort to get Shaw backmost into the U.S. With the assistance of Forgotten Prisoner earlier, Shaw had his condemnation reduced to 26 months successful prison. 

Utah State Aggies halfway Jarred Shaw (5)backs up against Wyoming Cowboys defender Jerron Granberry (15) during the archetypal fractional astatine Arena-Auditorium.  (Troy Babbitt/USA TODAY Sports)

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The Vlasic Classic Golf Tournament successful Missouri this May volition beryllium raising wealth to assistance Shaw get funds needed to get him backmost overseas. Shaw, a Dallas native, played assemblage hoops for Oklahoma State and Utah State. The 6-foot-10 guardant saw much playing clip with Utah State, averaging 28.3 minutes per crippled successful 58 contests. 

During his clip with the Aggies, Shaw averaged 14.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks. 

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