This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
WASHINGTON – J6 prisoners are in the news, after President Donald Trump's Day One mass pardon. However, as WorldNetDaily has learned from some of the prisoners, many are currently stranded in rural areas of the country, surrounded by farmland, with no cellphone, no money and no family members to take them home.
It seems that, leading up to the expected day of unprecedented presidential pardons, the Federal Bureau of Prisons began transferring J6 prisoners to random states in the middle of nowhere.
J6 prisoner Zachary Alam, a former medical school student, called this WorldNetDaily reporter as he was being processed for release out of the Oklahoma prison he was transferred to last week.
Upon news that he too was pardoned, Alam said he fell to his knees last night, thankful to God for his freedom and with immense gratitude for President Trump's courageous decision to allow him and nearly 1,600 other J6 defendants and prisoners to be immediately released.
However, after four years of incarceration in a politically weaponized case that turned his family against him, Alam is now facing homelessness and will be stranded upon release with no transportation.
"I'm in the middle of nowhere, in rural farmland Oklahoma," Alam told WND on a call from the prison Tuesday morning. "They moved me here last week for no apparent reason."
"I've got to get somehow, some way, to Philadelphia with no cell phone, no money and no family to help. I don't even have enough to get an Uber to Oklahoma City, which is at least 40 miles away. There is no Amtrak that leaves today, the next Amtrack available would leave on Wednesday for about $400," he continued. "I am asking the American public for financial assistance with a place to live and enough money to get back to the city I resided before I was arrested."
Alam warned that three other Jan. 6 prisoners who were also housed in the Oklahoma prison will likewise be stranded upon release.
The decision to immediately release the J6 prisoners, referred to by the president as "political hostages," was highly anticipated, but still sudden.
Alam called WND explaining that he has been released to the streets of Oklahoma without even his ID – just a paper ID from the prison.
With the stroke of a pen last night, hours after being sworn in as the 47th president, Trump historically pardoned and commuted the sentence of every person convicted or charged with crimes at the Save America rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump advisers had insisted the pardons would be issued on a case-by-case basis amid continuous emerging reports about federal informants and confidential human sources, but in one fell swoop the president set them all free.
While Alam and the other men will be released within hours of Trump's pardon, correctional officers across the country are reportedly refusing to release the J6ers.
Large crowds gathered outside of the Washington, D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility, the jail notoriously known as the "D.C. Gulag" where hundreds of J6 prisoners were detained for years pretrial.
