What Life Inside Prison Is Really Like For Warren Jeffs From Peacock's Preaching Evil

Despite his conviction to life behind bars and his declining mental health, to this day, many members of the FLDS consider Jeffs to be their prophet and leader. In 2012, Jeffs published a book titled "Jesus Christ Message to All Nations," directed to those who still follow him. In the book, Jeffs describes his treatment in prison and warns, as a purported mouthpiece for God, that retribution against those who have mistreated his followers, and Jeff himself as their prophet, will be forthcoming. Nonetheless, FLDS ranks have allegedly declined, and the sect is said to have lost control of their Short Creek community, per the 2018 A&E TV movie "Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil" (via IMDb).

In the movie, it's also described how conversations between Jeffs and his brothers during prison visitations may be recorded in secret, and that Jeffs may also communicate with his followers using coded letters. He allegedly still exerts influence from afar over an FLDS sect based in South Dakota, ostensibly led by another Jeffs brother, Seth, as South Dakota's Rapid City Journal explains. Ineligible for parole until 2038, Warren Jeffs is serving his life sentence at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Louis C. Powledge Unit, near Palestine, Texas. The complete Warren Jeffs story is told in "Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run with Warren Jeffs," streaming on Peacock+.