Unjustly incarcerated January 6 defendant Stewart Parks was released from a halfway house in Nashville on Monday. Parks served over five months in Memphis Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) until last month, when he was moved to the Dismas Diersen Halfway House in Nashville.
”I was released from the Nashville halfway house earlier today,” Parks texted The Tennessee Star on Monday afternoon.
”How does freedom feel?” The Star asked him.
“It’s a shock, honestly,” Parks texted back.
“After 5 months and 10 days of being in a third world prison run by an incompetent Bureau of Prisons it feels very different being back in the free world. I am, very happy to be out of federal custody,” Parks said.
“It is hell having to rely on the federal government to eat, drink, go to bed, shelter, etc. I am very thankful for Dismas Diersen Halfway House. They were very good to me and the other inmates and made life enjoyable compared to the hell we lived in at FCI Memphis,” he concluded.
Parks’ legal travails begin on January 6, 2021, as The Star reported:
Stewart Parks is now looking at eight months in federal prison for, among other things, being in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He is marked by the Left as an “insurrectionist” on a conviction of five federal charges.
The 30-year-old Nashville man was sentenced on Wednesday by, according to Parks, a vindictive U.S. district court judge who helped the prosecution work out its case against him in the trial.
“I’m shocked,” Parks told The Tennessee Star in an exclusive interview. “The D.C. courts are prejudiced against Christian conservative, pro-Trump, pro-America Republicans.”
D.C. Circuit Court Judge Amit P. Mehta, who has presided over several trials related to the January 6 Capitol riots, sentenced Parks to a total of 3 years on misdemeanor trespassing, disorderly conduct, and theft charges, but he will serve his sentence concurrently, reducing his term to eight months behind bars.
He’s expected to turn himself in sometime in February.
Parks, who has been represented by a Washington, D.C. public defender, plans to appeal his conviction and his sentencing. On advice of counsel, Parks chose to be tried in a bench trial, rather than a jury trial. Judge Mehta presided over the bench trial, and found Parks guilty of five misdemeanors on May 3, 2023.
Parks, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat in August 2022, asserts the evidence of his trial “proved” he was not guilty. He claims Mehta, an Obama appointee, “colluded” with the prosecutors and identified the defendant by the wrong name when sentencing him late Wednesday afternoon in the D.C. Court.
Parks reported to Memphis FCI on February 7, 2024, where he served 5 months and 10 days. On July 17, 2024, he was moved to the Dismas Diersen Halfway House in Nashville.
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Michael Patrick Leahy is the founder and CEO of the Star News Network, which includes The Tennessee Star. Follow Leahy on X at @michaelpleahy.
The show trials will never let up.
So true, Ruth Wilson. What’s been and is being done to many of these citizens is shameful and illegal. There’s a special, very hot place somewhere for those responsible. #MakeAmericsGreatAgain.
I do praise God for the deliverance of this gentleman. You all have done what the News Media was established to do in America. “GO TELL the TRUTH.” It is so unjust what has been done to these folks. I remember distinctly of Federal Representatives Gohmert TX, Green GA and one other Rep. who visited the DC jail only to be turned away from seeing the folks in jail for their involvement in J-6 situation. Many of these Citizens incarcerated and held without a hearing which is violation Article 6, Bill of Rights, United States Constitution.
I appreciate that you all have followed and given this man’s situation when they jailed him in Memphis under the J-6 charge. I can tell you most Americans watching that TV presentation of the happenings that day only thought – the J-6 folks were only seeking to go into the “People’s House” and address their elected legislators.
You all have done what the Press in for in America, fair and accurate reporting.
For God & Country