Tag: gangs
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Tennessee Inmate Claims Drugs “Easier to Get” in Prison than “on the Street”
AND GANG ACTIVITY RAMPANT by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 6, 2020) — A letter received Saturday alleges that the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) remains a dangerous prison in which gangs dictate daily routines and extortion payments, reportedly with the knowledge and consent of correction officers. The author of the letter requested that his name be withheld…
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Inmate Reports Prison Staff “Going Slow” on Emergency Grievance for Denial of Medication
MUST SKIP TWO MEALS A DAY TO “REDUCE PAIN” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 8, 2017) — An inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Complex (TTCC) wrote in a letter received on Monday that the emergency grievance he filed over the abrupt discontinuation of his two prescription medications has not yet received a response. TTCC is…
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Report: Three Riots in Shelby County Jail Since October, Officer “Briefly Held Hostage”
INMATE ALLEGES “3 RIOTS AND ONE PEACEFUL PROTEST” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 2, 2017) — Last week, The Post & Email received a letter dated January 18, 2017 in which an inmate at the Shelby County jail in Memphis, TN conveyed a heretofore unreported story to this publication of three “riots” plus a “peaceful” protest…
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TTCC Inmate Reports Attack Plot Allegedly Sanctioned by “Unit Manager”
ARE THERE CORRECTION OFFICERS WHO ARE CRIMINALS? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 30, 2017) — On Saturday, The Post & Email received a one-page letter from an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), about which we have written extensively over the last nine months. Although open for only 13 months, the institution has reportedly…
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TTCC Inmate Report: Facility “Severely Understaffed and Overwhelmed”
REFERS TO THANKSGIVING DAY INCIDENT AS “BRUTAL GANG WAR” by Anonymous Inmate, Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) (Dec. 14, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following letter was received on Friday, December 9, from an inmate not previously heard from who is housed at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN. The information he…
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Bondage of Eternal Ignorance
PRODUCTIVITY VS. GANG ACTIVITY by Dwight Kehoe, ©2016, Editor, TPATH (Aug. 20, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: Parents are cautioned that some of the following eyewitness accounts of the conditions of New Jersey inner-city schools are not suitable for young children.] One might suppose that an ex-businessman/construction worker may not be able to provide articulate testimony…
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Can There Be an “Operation Ghost Guard” in Tennessee?
INDICTMENTS ISSUED FOR GEORGIA PRISON CORRUPTION by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 12, 2016) — On Thursday, the FBI reported that it had “uncovered extensive crimes carried out by inmates with the help of corrupt guards” in 11 of Georgia’s 35 state prisons, resulting in the indictments of more than three dozen individuals, including corrections officers. The…
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Human Cockroaches on the Move
“CALL IN THE EXTERMINATORS” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Oct. 19, 2015) — Never in our lifetime, not even during World War II, have the people of Planet Earth seen the potential for more human misery than they are now witness to. In Europe, the black peoples of Africa and the…
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True Leadership: Obama Reverses Position
“AN IMAGINARY REPORT” by Alan Korwin, ©2015, The Uninvited Ombudsman (Oct. 7, 2015) — Washington, D.C. — In a stunning announcement no one expected to hear prior to his trip to Roseburg, Ore., President Barack Obama backed off his long held proposals for new background checks, and has proposed a full-court press to find and…
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Hadiyah Pendleton Remembered on Saturday
WAS AN HONORS STUDENT WHO PERFORMED AT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION A CASE OF “MISTAKEN IDENTITY?” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 10, 2013) — On January 29, a talented 15-year-old young woman from Chicago who had performed at Obama’s inauguration eight days before was killed by a gunshot reportedly while she was with a group of friends in…