‘Hot Felon’ Jeremy Meeks Became a Prison Heartthrob, and It Cost His Family Their Visiting Slots

Jeremy Meeks said this on Matthew Cox’s Inside True Crime podcast, posted around March 22, 2026. Meeks is the original “hot felon.” His 2014 Stockton PD mugshot went viral on Facebook, getting tens of thousands of shares while he was doing federal time on a felon-in-possession charge.

He had zero social media and found out from a random visitor, a guy named Ken from “channel 12” who showed up thinking it was a media interview. Meeks walked into the visiting room expecting news cameras...