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

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Jarred Shaw, a 35-year-old American basketball player who used to star for Oklahoma State and Utah State, remains locked up in an Indonesian prison, and his health is deteriorating as he tries desperately to return home to the States. 

Shaw was arrested in May 2025 after what he called a "stupid mistake" to The Guardian, ordering a package of 132 cannabis gummies to his apartment in Indonesia. He was playing basketball in the country but was living in Thailand, where cannabis is legal, during the Indonesian Basketball League’s offseason.

However, Indonesia remains an extremely strict country with its drug laws, as around 276,000 people are imprisoned for a drug offense. And cannabis is considered the same as heroin and methamphetamine by the Indonesian government, regardless of its legal status in the U.S. and across many European countries. 

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Jarred Shaw looks on while handcuffed in Indonesia alongside international criminal justice advocate Donte West, founder of The Forgotten Prisoner (Court Shutter)

The reason Shaw ordered so many gummies was due to his suffering from Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the digestive tract. Cannabis has been known to alleviate tough symptoms of the disease, and he would secure it legally to do so. 

But when the package went to his apartment in Indonesia, where he became a basketball star after spending seasons prior in Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Japan, among other countries, Shaw was publicly shamed following his arrest. He was paraded in front of Indonesian media