Former state Rep. Will Dismukes will not be headed to prison for stealing from his former employer.

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Brooke Reid sentenced Dismukes on Monday to five years of community corrections, Montgomery County District Attorney Darryl Bailey told WAKA.

Dismukes’ sentence was not yet in court records as of early Monday evening.

Bailey had pushed for prison time for Dismukes, who was convicted in April of stealing more than $2,500 from his former employer, Weiss Flooring.

Dismukes, a resident of Prattville who was elected to the House in 2018, has had a tumultuous tenure in office.

The 32-year-old Republican drew national attention in 2020 when he posted an image on Facebook attending a birthday celebration for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Democratic lawmakers called on him to resign over the photos, his support of Confederate monuments and service as chaplain of the Prattville Dragoons, a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

He also stepped down as pastor of a Baptist church after the Forrest controversy.

Dismukes gave the invocation at the party held in July 2020 at Fort Dixie in Selma, an event that coincided with ceremonies honoring the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, an Alabama native and longtime Georgia congressman who was a leader in the civil rights movement and was badly beaten at the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma in 1965.