Tag: NWCX
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Disabled Inmate Still Waiting for Cell Accommodations
CLAIMS “DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE” TO HIS CONDITION, PAIN by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 17, 2020) — The Post & Email recently heard from Tennessee inmate Raymond Wright, #216628, a disabled inmate who has corresponded with us previously as to the lack of handicapped-accessible recreational activities and cell accommodations at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville. In…
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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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Tennessee Inmate Reports Fall Down 19 Stairs While Shackled with Virtually No Follow-Up Treatment
“I’M STILL A HUMAN BEING” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 25, 2019) — A letter received Tuesday from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN reports that following an appearance at the courthouse in Lynchburg, Moore County, last month, he fell down a 19-step staircase while in custody and received virtually no…
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Tennessee Inmate Authors Book on “The Corrupt Grand Juries”
CLAIM: THERE IS “NO TRUE GRAND JURY IN TENNESSEE” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2019) — Tennessee inmate Jerome L. Johnson has written a book titled “The CORRUPT Grand Juries: A True Story” which is now available at Amazon in Kindle format. Johnson became interested in the composition and function of Tennessee grand juries in…
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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: NWCX Inmate Describes “Militarization” of Prison
WHAT IS THE “STRIKE FORCE,” AND WHY IS IT THERE? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 29, 2019) — A typewritten letter received Monday tells of harsh conditions at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tennessee’s northwest corner, echoing dozens of similar reports received by this publication over the last 4+ years. However, one element that is…
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Tennessee Inmate Alleges Continued Lack of Handicapped Accessibility
REQUEST TO TRANSFER TO ACCESSIBLE FACILITY REPORTEDLY “REPEATEDLY DENIED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 6, 2019) — Earlier this week The Post & Email received a copy of a letter from Raymond Wright, an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN, who has written to us previously about alleged deficiencies at the facility…
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Report: Inmate with Breathing Problems Placed with Cellmate Who Smokes
HOW IS TOBACCO ALLOWED IN PRISON? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 2, 2019) — A letter received late last week from Johnny Royston Sr., an inmate from whom we have received numerous letters in the past, reports that Royston was recently relocated from the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN to the Northwest Correctional…
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Tennessee Inmate Claims Discrimination on the Basis of Disability
IS THE TDOC VIOLATING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 23, 2019) — A letter received last week from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN reported, as he did last year, that with the arrival of spring, inmates with disabilities were hoping to be able to recreate…
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Tennessee Prisoner Claims Drug Overdoses, Abuse, Corruption Common
“VIOLENCE AS A WAY OF LIFE” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 29, 2019) — On Wednesday, The Post & Email received a four-page letter from TDOC inmate Omowale A. Shabazz, who in February filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the agency and a number of its employees on which we reported last week. In the letter,…
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Report: NWCX Inmate Murdered; TDOC, Local Press Silent
“BEATEN TO DEATH IN HIS CELL” by Sharon Rondeau, h/t MV (Mar. 24, 2019) — An inmate housed at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in TiptonVille, TN was found deceased in his cell sometime before March 7, a Pennsylvania newspaper reported on Saturday. The article was published the same day on which The Post &…
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In Federal Lawsuit, Tennessee Inmate Claims Fear of Impending “Physical Injury”
“STRIKING ME REPEATEDLY IN THE FACE WITH CLOSED FISTS” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 23, 2019) — An inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) with whom The Post & Email has corresponded intermittently over the last two years has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and a number of…
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Tennessee Inmate Reports “Beating” by Two Correction Officers
IS THIS “HUMANITY AND KINDNESS”? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 25, 2019) — A January 15, 2019 letter from TDOC inmate Omowale A. Shabazz, #244104, aka Fred Dean, who is housed at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, states that not only have conditions “been chaotic” of late, but also that on January 4, he…
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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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Horrendous Abuse of Inmate Reported at Tennessee Prison
“WE WILL CALL MEDICAL WHEN YOU BLEED TO DEATH” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 18, 2018) — The Post & Email is in receipt of a letter from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN describing an incident allegedly occurring on September 11, 2018 in which an inmate was allegedly punched in…
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Report: Correction Officer Continues to Threaten, Use Racial Slurs
“WE WERE ALL SHOCKED BY IT” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 9, 2018) — A letter arriving last week from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN reinforced other inmates’ reports of an abusive female correction officer who allegedly pits inmates against each other, not only verbally but physically; threatens her colleagues;…
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Tennessee Inmate Reports Denial of Medical Attention; Fears for His Life
“I’LL HAVE YOU AS A WITNESS” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 7, 2018) — In a letter received Wednesday dated August 29, 2018, NWCX inmate Billy Ray Cooper, Jr., #407119, wrote that he has been placed in protective custody as a result of “a problem with a gang organization” following an incident involving his cellmate and…
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Inmate Reports Discrimination Against Elderly and Disabled Population
“HARASSED ON A DAILY BASIS” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 13, 2018) — A letter received Saturday from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN reports that “elderly and disabled inmates are been discriminated against in the worst way.” [sic] The inmate, who has written to us in the past, explained: This…
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Complaints Continue about Tyrannical Correction Officer
THREATS GO BEYOND VERBAL INTIMIDATION, INMATES AND RELATIVES SAY by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 24, 2018) — On Monday, two letters arrived from different individuals not heard from before in the matter of a female correction officer at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN who reportedly threatens inmates who she perceives have slighted her and…
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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…