A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail.
David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Mrs Palin’s e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign.
At the time, a judge suggested he should serve his year-long sentence in a halfway house.
But after intervention from US government officials he is now in federal prison, the BBC has learned.
Officials confirmed that Mr Kernell reported on 10 January to begin serving his time at a federal corrections institute in Ashland, Kentucky.
Read more on BBC.