Tom Pappert, lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, said he is “very skeptical of the federal officials at the Bureau of Prisons” after an official with the bureau formally refused a written request by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) to move unjustly imprisoned January 6 defendant Stewart Parks to the minimum security satellite camp located at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Memphis.
Parks (pictured above) is currently serving an eight-month prison term for misdemeanor trespassing, disorderly conduct, and theft charges related to his presence at the January 6 Capitol riot.
Despite not having a criminal history or history of violence, Parks was ordered to serve out his prison sentence at the medium security facility, FCI Memphis, instead of a minimum security satellite camp.
On February 13, Ogles sent a letter to Warden F.J. Bowers of the FCI in Memphis requesting that Parks be moved to the satellite camp for the duration of his incarceration.
This week, Ogles received a response from Bureau of Prisons Legislative Affairs Chief David Mapp who claimed the medium security prison is an “appropriate facility” for Parks to serve his sentence.
Pappert, who has reported extensively on Parks’ case, said Mapp’s response to Ogles’ request was disrespectful, especially since Ogles requested a response from the warden of FCI Memphis and not the legislative affairs office.
“The level of disrespect is really hard to cope with,” Pappert said on Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show. “It seemed as though the individuals at FCI Memphis wanted to respond. They wanted to respond to The Tennessee Star and they wanted to respond to Representative Ogles, and it certainly seems as though somebody, maybe a little bit closer to Washington, D. C., maybe it was this David Mapp fellow, said ‘No, we’re in charge here, we’re going to determine what happens to Stewart Parks.’”
Pappert agreed with host Michael Patrick Leahy that the Bureau of Prisons is “just another weaponized element of the Department of Justice run by Joe Biden and Merrick Garland.”
“I completely agree, and I would say that not only is it an extension of the corrupt DOJ, it is the lowest rung, the bottom of the ladder. So you’re probably getting the type of individuals who are not, let’s say overachievers, you’re getting incompetent losers who exist solely to serve the demo democratic apparatus,” Pappert said.
In regards to the questions surrounding Parks’ chances of getting moved to the satellite camp before his eight-month sentence is complete, Pappert said the lack of transparency and honesty among the officials at the Bureau of Prisons makes him believe that they are contributing to a “corrupt system that is seeking to punish the political enemies of the Biden regime.”
Pappert added that if there is a specific reason why Parks is continuously being denied transfer to the satellite camp—for example, if there is a lack of beds available—then the officials would have made that clear in the response to Ogles.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Stewart Parks” by Stewart Parks.
