A Yahoo article reports Russell Brand's first hours in prison, after his sentencing on 9 November 2026 to 10.5 years at London's Southwark Crown Court, were a "nightmare": held in HMP Wandsworth's solitary unit as "too famous" for the general wing, he has faced hostile chants from inmates, while sources say he stays calm, meditating and reading the Bible, and an ex-convict warns he is "a dead man walking" if he remains there.