Not likely, but he&#x27;d be there for a very long time.<p>Generally speaking, when being held in jail for contempt charges, you can be held indefinitely, so long as you remain in disobedience to a court order. That last part is important, since the idea is you &quot;hold the keys&quot; to your own release.<p>However, if it&#x27;s physically impossible for you to comply with said court order, you no longer hold those &quot;keys&quot;, and can no longer be held in contempt.<p>That said... they&#x27;re not going to believe you just &quot;forgot&quot; your password. The courts don&#x27;t look favorably at folks who try to game the system like that, and you&#x27;d have a hard time proving otherwise.<p>See Chadwick v. Janecka, where a man was held in contempt for 14 years (!) for refusing to disclose where he allegedly hid funds from an overseas bank account during a divorce proceeding. They eventually let him go after they decided that being held in jail had lost its coercive effect... but again, that took 14 years.