“I STAY RESPECTFUL” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 5, 2019) — A letter received on Monday from TDOC inmate Omowale A. Shabazz, #244104, rescinded an earlier request that we not divulge his having been granted parole effective in April 2020. Shabazz, whose birth name was Fred Edmond Dean, wrote in his June 24, 2019 typewritten letter […]
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IGNORED IN CASE OF MAN SENTENCED TWICE TO PRISON by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 26, 2019) — On Monday The Post & Email interviewed Lee Baxter, father of Timothy Aaron Baxter, who has been imprisoned by the State of Tennessee’s Department of Correction (TDOC) since 2011 on a Madison County jury conviction on […]
“IT’S ALL WORKING OUT OKAY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2018) — On Friday morning The Post & Email received an update from former TDOC inmate Robert Z. Whipple, III, who was released on parole last month to a halfway house after spending nearly eight years in prison on a drug charge. Although now out […]
FIVE WEEKS AFTER PAROLE GRANTED by Sharon Rondeau (May 23, 2018) — On Wednesday evening The Post & Email received a message from Robert Z. Whipple, III that at long last he was released from prison to parole. His April 18 parole hearing concluded in a positive outcome, but his actual release to a halfway […]
A “GOOD” KIND OF “NERVOUS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 1, 2018) — In a letter received on Tuesday, Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Robert Z. Whipple III wrote that his parole hearing on April 18 has resulted in a positive decision for his release from prison “in a couple weeks.” Whipple said that he […]
“ANOTHER YEAR OF ABUSE BY THE STATE OF TENNESSEE” by Beth Haycraft, ©2018 (Apr. 11, 2018) — [Editor’s Note: The following summary was sent today by Beth Haycraft, the wife of TDOC inmate Michael Wayne Haycraft, #00277811, whose parole hearing on Tuesday resulted in a decision to maintain him in prison for another year. Mrs. […]
“WE SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED FOR THINGS WE DID NOT DO” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 5, 2018) — On Thursday, a letter arrived from NWCX inmate Billy Ray Cooper, Jr., #407119, claiming that a correction officer accused him of throwing an apple at her and promised to use the “incident” as a means by which […]
I’M NOT QUITE SURE ABOUT THAT by Cody Robert Judy, Presidential Candidate, ©2016 (Oct. 19, 2016) — REVIEW – “HILLARY’S AMERICA” – Dinesh D’Souza — I rented Hillary’s America and watched it last night. My biggest disappointment of the movie came in the statement “Because of my conviction I can’t vote but you can.” 1 […]
“NEVER GETTING OUT” by Anonymous Inmate (Jun. 16, 2016) — Editor’s Note: The following report was received on June 4 from an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) along with a letter corroborating the numerous reports The Post & Email has received over the last six weeks of short-staffing, substandard, cold food, nearly-continuous solitary […]
“HE WAS TRULY AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 14, 2016) — Since May 17, The Post & Email has made public a number of reports received from relatives of inmates at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN, a new facility plagued with problems since it opened its doors in […]
“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 […]
“THE BIGGEST FRAUD PERPETRATED ON SOCIETY” by Tracy Finley, TDOC #94531, ©2015 (Sep. 17, 2015) — [Editor’s Note: The following letter was received on Monday, September 14, 2015.] Sharon RondeauSharon Rondeau has operated The Post & Email since April 2010, focusing on the Obama birth certificate investigation and other government corruption news. […]
LT. CLINT LORANCE, IMPRISONED AT FT. LEAVENWORTH, HAS CHANCE FOR CLEMENCY by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 9, 2014) — In early August of last year, Lt. Clint Lorance was convicted of murdering two Afghans he had believed were “scouts” for the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison at Ft. Leavenworth prison. In a petition […]