AFTER COMPELLED PARTICIPATION by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 6, 2019) — A letter received on Friday from TDOC inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, alleges a scheme on the part of TDOC Commissioner Tony Parker to compel inmates to obtain mental-health counseling, whether or not they have been evaluated as requiring it, to enrich the prison service-provider, […]
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Tennessee Inmate Reports Forced “Mental Health” Class
IS “MORE FUNDING” THE REASON? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 14, 2019) — Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) Grenda Ray Harmer, an inmate at the state’s Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) who has communicated with The Post & Email for approximately three years, reported in an October 7, 2019 letter to Gov. Bill Lee that he […]
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Tennessee: NWCX Inmate Reports Educational Staff “Cook the Books” for Federal Dollars
“A DISGUSTING TREND” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 7, 2019) — A letter received Tuesday from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN focuses on what he believes to be deceptive practices within the prison’s educational program. The inmate had recently written to us to report what he said is the “militarization” […]
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Tennessee: Harmer Reports Prison Educational Fraud
AND NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 30, 2018) — In a letter received Thursday, TDOC inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, wrote to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam that the “Jobs Coordinator” at Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) “is engaging in fraud.” As evidence, Harmer presented a copy of his GED certificate, earned […]
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Segregation Reported at Tennessee Prison
“STATE SPONSORED RACISM” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 16, 2018) — A letter received Monday from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN claims that outright segregation between blacks and whites is practiced in regard to mealtime seating. The inmate, from whom we have heard previously and who we consider to be […]
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Second Shelby County Former Co-Defendant Tells Her Story
“SOMEBODY WAS DOING A RUSH JOB TO GET US INDICTED” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 13, 2017) — In an interview on November 11, former Shelby County, TN co-defendant April Malone, caught up in a dragnet of 16 people fueled by the Shelby County District Attorney General‘s office and Memphis Police Department’s Organized Crime Unit (OCU), […]
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A Matter of Life and Death
TDOC SPOKESWOMAN DENIES REALITY, BUT WHO IS LYING TO HER? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 8, 2017) — Based on copious letters with extensive documentation from Tennessee inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, received since late last year, The Post & Email has no reason to doubt the veracity of his statements made since June 5 reporting […]
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Inmate Asks Prison Commissioner to Uphold Medical Care Contract
IN PRIVATELY-OWNED PRISONS by Sharon Rondeau (May 4, 2017) — On a myriad of occasions, The Post & Email has reported that inmates and their relatives have related over the past year that medical care at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN is substandard and that specifically, prescription medications are not dispensed […]
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Inmate Provides Evidence of Pay for Nonexistent Job
IS THIS HOW TENNESSEANS WANT THEIR TAX DOLLARS SPENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 10, 2017) — An inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) has informed The Post & Email that he has received wages for a prison job which “does not exist.” On March 31, 2017, Grenda Harmer contacted Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, […]
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Response to Inmate Civil Rights Complaint Received from USDOJ
REQUESTS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON “ALLEGATIONS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 28, 2017) — On Monday, The Post & Email received a letter dated March 20, 2017 from Mr. Michael Alston, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Civil Rights in Washington, DC. The letter related to a […]
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Whistleblower Inmate “Quickly” Dropped from Pro-Social Life Skills Class
AFTER FILING COMPLAINT, THREATENING TO EXPOSE ALLEGED SCHEME BY PRISON TO GARNER FEDERAL DOLLARS by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 18, 2017) — An inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Complex (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN who recently blew the whistle on his placement in and ineligibility for the Pro-Social Life Skills class reports that his enrollment was […]
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Inmate Demands Removal from Same Course Cited by Walter Fitzpatrick
“STOP THIS FRAUDULENT ACT” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 12, 2017) — An inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Complex (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN has filed a complaint similar to that made by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III almost two years ago when he was forced into the Pro-Social Life Skills (PSLS) class at Northwest Correctional Complex […]
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Tennessee Inmate Again the Victim of “Hands-On” Training
WHERE IS THE “HUMANITY AND KINDNESS?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 10, 2017) — In a letter received on Monday, TDOC inmate Richard A. Mayers, who previously reported having witnessed “hands-on” training on the part of correction officers against other inmates, has now reported experiencing it once again himself. When Mayers first contacted The Post & […]
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Tennessee Inmate Reports “Criminal Conspiracy” within Prison
USING “FORGED ENROLLMENT DOCUMENTS” by Omowale A. Shabazz, TDOC #244104 (Oct. 30, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following correspondence and documentation were received earlier this month from the above-named inmate, with the second letter and enclosure arriving last week clarifying his name change from Fred Edmond Dean to Omowale Ashanti Shabazz. Shabazz is housed at […]
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Walter Fitzpatrick Breaks His Silence
“ROUGH AND ROUGHED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 8, 2016) — After nearly two months, The Post & Email on Tuesday received two letters from Tennessee inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III. One was five pages and the other 15, with the second a follow-up to the first. Nearly two years ago, Fitzpatrick was sentenced to three […]
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TDOC Commissioner Derrick Schofield Has Resigned
WILL BECOME “VP” WITH “WORLDWIDE” LEADER IN PRISON ADMINISTRATION by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 1, 2016) — The embattled commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), Derrick Schofield, has tendered his resignation, according to WSMV, Channel 4 in Nashville, to take an executive position in a “worldwide” correctional company. Schofield was hired in 2011 by […]
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Tennessee Prison Confirms Walter Fitzpatrick “Still Here”
HEALTH AND WELFARE UNKNOWN by Sharon Rondeau (May 25, 2016) — Following approximately six weeks of silence from Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, The Post & Email contacted the West Tennessee State Penitentiary (WTSP) on Wednesday afternoon to inquire into his well-being. We were able to reach a female correction […]
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Report: Correction System “in the Business of Holding People”
“THEY GET KICKBACKS ON EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 30, 2016) — In a recent telephone conversation with a Tennessee state prison inmate, The Post & Email was told that the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), enabled by the state Board of Parole, is “in the business of holding people” for as […]
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Inmate Reports Prison Violence, Correction Officer Injured; No Mainstream Media Coverage
“THIS PLACE IS SO CORRUPT” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 17, 2016) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email received a letter from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN, from whom we have heard twice before, describing two inmate stabbings and another of a correction officer at the West Tennessee State […]