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TDOC Communications Director Promises to Relay Fitzpatrick Medical Request to Appropriate Staff

WILL THEY GET THE MESSAGE? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 5, 2015) — At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, The Post & Email contacted the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) Commissioner’s office at (615) 253-8200 and spoke with Communications Director Neysa Taylor regarding a request for medical and dental attention received from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, […]

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Special Report: Walter Fitzpatrick Sends Out SOS from Tennessee State Prison pb

“I NEED TO BE SET FREE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 4, 2015) — On Wednesday, The Post & Email received a letter from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who is incarcerated at the Northwest Correctional Center (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN and whose exposure of local government corruption has been covered extensively by this publication. […]

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Former Tennessee Police Officer: Distrust, Contempt Mar Relations Between Law Enforcement and the Public

REPORT:  PREJUDICE, ANGER CAN LEAD TO USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE by Sharon Rondeau (May 30, 2015) — A former five-year Tennessee law enforcement official recently spoke with The Post & Email, reporting that his employment in the Volunteer State was marked by a high level of distrust between law enforcers and the citizens they are […]

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Prison Inmate Beaten, Permanently Injured Reports Videos of Incident Have Disappeared

PRISON WORKER FRAMES INCIDENT AS “ASSAULT ON STAFF” by Sharon Rondeau (May 9, 2015) — In a telephone conversation on Friday afternoon, NWCX prisoner Timothy Aaron Baxter told The Post & Email that videos of a beating he sustained on September 11, 2009 at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary have “disappeared.” Last week, Baxter described […]

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Tennessee State Prison Inmate Beaten, Denied Medical Treatment, Sustained Permanent Injuries

“I’VE LOST MOST OF THE CONTROL OF MY LEFT ARM” by Sharon Rondeau (May 5, 2015) — On March 22, The Post & Email published an initial article on former Madison County, TN resident Timothy Aaron Baxter, who is currently incarcerated at the Northwest Correctional Center (NWCX) in Tiptonville on a conviction of aggravated assault […]

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Madison County, TN Sentences Man to 12 Years in Prison on Word of Defendant

“A BIG CONSPIRACY” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 22, 2015) — The Post & Email recently learned of the case of Timothy Aaron Baxter of Madison County, TN, a jury from which convicted him of “aggravated assault” against a then-72-year-old man who testified that he experienced “extreme pain” after he alleged that Baxter pushed him to […]