“THEY ALLOW GANG MEMBERS TO SELL DRUGS AND TOBACCO” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 20, 2018) — In a letter received on Monday dated June 14, 2018, Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, reported that standard security measures are ignored by staff in the protective custody (PC) unit of the prison, located […]
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Wife of Mentally-Ill Inmate Addresses Tennessee Board of Parole
“YOU HAVE SET HIM UP TO FAIL” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 9, 2018) — Virginia resident Beth Haycraft, whose husband Michael is incarcerated by the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), wrote the following letter dated June 4, 2018 to the Tennessee Board of Parole, which denied her husband parole on April 10. According to his […]
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New Prison Term: “B and B”
CONTRABAND REPORTEDLY SUPPLIED BY CORRECTION OFFICER WITH IMPUNITY by Sharon Rondeau (May 28, 2018) — Late last week a letter arrived from a source at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN describing a process with which this writer was not acquainted: “B and B.” The source described the term as “when an officer […]
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Individual Reports Making Extortion Payments to Tennessee Prison Gang Members
“I HAVE PROOF OF BEING EXTORTED” by Sharon Rondeau (May 7, 2018) — In an interview on Monday, an acquaintance of an inmate housed by the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) told this writer that he/she has made extortion payments to gang members in the hope of providing some measure of safety to the inmate […]
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Report: Four Inmates Hospitalized After Drug Overdoses
AT TENNESSEE’S MORGAN COUNTY FACILITY by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 27, 2018) — A two-page memorandum received on Friday from TDOC inmate Grenda Ray Harmer reports that four inmates from the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) were “escorted” to the University of Tennessee Medical Center “because they overdosed on drugs sometime between 6:00 pm on 4-19-18 […]
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TDOC Inmate Whose Story Publicized On Air Now Receiving Hepatitis C Treatment
“THE GREATER GOOD” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 10, 2018) — A Tennessee state inmate whose lack of treatment for advanced Hepatitis C was aired on the “Nooganomics” radio show in mid-March reported in a letter received on Tuesday that as of March 30, he began receiving treatment for the disease. Danny Shockley, #247280, who is […]
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Why Do Prisons Punish Someone for “Doing the Right Thing?”
INMATE’S MOTHER WANTS QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 14, 2018) — On Wednesday morning, The Post & Email interviewed the mother of an inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) in Wartburg, TN about her son’s recent report of victimization by not only prison gang members, but also by the system charged with […]
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Private Prison Inmate Says Warden Does Not Enforce “Zero Tolerance” Policy
CITES PROHIBITED “INMATE/EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIPS” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 19, 2017) — A letter received on Monday from an inmate at the privately-owned Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN states that “relationships” between inmates and correction officers are to blame for the importation of contraband items into the facility on a regular basis. As […]
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Trousdale Problems Continue, Inmates Say
CONTRABAND, MEDICATIONS OFTEN NOT DISPENSED, DANGEROUS CONDITIONS, DISAPPEARING MAIL by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 24, 2017) — In a letter postmarked November 17, 2017 and received on Monday, an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN reported alleged tampering with his “outgoing legal mail,” a common complaint among the prisoner population at […]
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Inmate Told: “Nobody Wants You”
THE PRICE OF EXPOSING CORRUPTION by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 20, 2017) — In a letter received on Monday, TDOC inmate Grenda Harmer, #88710, wrote that he has learned that a false complaint was filed against him by another inmate so that that inmate could be moved to another prison. Both are housed at the Morgan […]
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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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Shelby County, TN: Mother of Convicted Inmate Refutes Media Report
IF THE PRESS CANNOT REPORT ACCURATELY, HOW ARE THE PEOPLE TO KNOW? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 6, 2017) — An article in The Commercial Appeal dated October 29, 2017 contains a number of misstatements, according to the mother of the inmate named in the first paragraph. Kimberly White, mother of Tennessee state inmate Jason Lamar […]
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Shelby County, TN: What “Evidence” was Used to Convict Three People…
WITH ONE CONFESSION? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 18, 2017) — As part of our follow-up on a case arising in Shelby County, TN in which three people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for allegedly participating in a drug operation, The Post & Email made several calls to the Shelby County District Attorney General‘s […]
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Conspiracy, Collusion and Cover-Up in Shelby County, TN
“A HUGE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2017) — Over the last three weeks, The Post & Email has learned of a case involving TDOC inmate Jason Lamar White, #335720, who is serving the final months of a 21-year sentence for a burglary in which he participated when he was a youth. […]
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BCCX Continues to Prevent Inmates from Accessing “Adequate” Law Library
IN DEFIANCE OF DECADES-OLD U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2017) — An inmate at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) in Pikeville, TN reported to the American Correctional Association (ACA) that he and others residing in the prison “annex” are prohibited from using the federal law library located at the facility […]
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TDOC Spokeswoman Says Inmate’s Letters “Fictitious”
BASED ON WHAT EVIDENCE? by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 16, 2017) — Over the last two months, editor of Nooganomics David Tulis has received a number of letters from Tennessee inmate Grenda Harmer, #88710, a prolific writer and documentarian who has relentlessly pursued the exposure of corruption within the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC). Harmer is […]
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Report: Inmate “High on Meth” Attacks Correction Officer at Tennessee Prison
SPOKESMAN SAYS “SAFETY AND SECURITY” “TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY” DESPITE MULTIPLE STAFF AND INMATE ASSAULTS by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 12, 2017) — WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville reported on Friday another assault on a correction officer at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN. The assault is the second of which The Post & […]
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Insider Sources Looking Forward to WSMV Series on Private Prison Corruption
“IT’S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 19, 2017) — As The Post & Email has reported since Friday, Nashville-based television station WSMV will be launching a four-part series at 6:00 PM CDT beginning on Monday and running through Thursday on the subject of corruption, substandard care, short-staffing, deaths and injuries within two […]
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Former Tennessee Prison Oversight Committee Reported “High Degree of Violence”
AT PRIVATELY-RUN PRISON by Sharon Rondeau (May 2, 2017) — A 2008 “Special Report” filed with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of State Audit conceded that there existed “a history of a high level of violence” at a privately-run facility. The prison identified was the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, one […]