Tag: retaliation
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Protective Orders: The Judicially Sanctioned Abuse of Men
by Robert Kalebra, ©2025 (Jul. 25, 2025) — This article is dedicated to the men, fathers, and children who have suffered under a system designed to protect—but instead has been used to discriminate, alienate, and punish them unjustly. It honors those whose lives were overturned not by wrongdoing, but by a judicial structure that allows…
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Why is Senator Cardin’s Office Responding Now?
“I AM STILL SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH MY CASE” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 31, 2020) — On Sunday evening, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason sent an email to the office of U.S. Senator for Maryland Ben Cardin which garnered an unusually rapid response. The email was sent as a follow-up to Mason’s 2013 request…
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Does the TDOC Give Correction Officers “Unchecked Power?”
“HARASS AND ATTACK” REPORTED AS METHOD USED TO TERRORIZE INMATES by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 30, 2018) — A letter received Friday amplifies alleged gross misconduct on the part of a female correction officer reported multiple times since April by inmates at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX). Julie Abbott, whose salary is paid by Tennessee taxpayers,…
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Tennessee: Inmate Harmer Files Federal Lawsuit against TDOC
RECOUNTS ALLEGED RETALIATION, “FRAUD,” AND THREATS by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 31, 2018) — In one of many memos received during the month of March, Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, related that a federal lawsuit he has been working on over the latter part of the winter has been filed. Also…
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Tennessee Inmate Reports Freezing Cell Temperatures
“COLD AIR IS BEING PUMPED INTO MY CELL” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 10, 2017) — A letter received on Thursday from TDOC inmate Grenda Ray Harmer, #88710, reports that he has been moved into a cell, still within the Protective Custody (PC) unit at the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX), whose temperature is reportedly far…
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Tennessee Inmate on Hunger Strike Tries to Request Legal Assistance, Sends P&E “What I’ve Not Sent You”
CRITICAL PERIOD APPROACHING; REPORTS “BLACKOUT” FROM DEHYDRATION, LACK OF FOOD by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 3, 2017) — On Monday, The Post & Email received three letters from TDOC inmate Grenda Harmer, #88710, who has adhered to a hunger strike commencing on June 5 to protest the treatment he reported he received by correction officers upon…
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Response to Inmate Civil Rights Complaint Received from USDOJ
REQUESTS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON “ALLEGATIONS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 28, 2017) — On Monday, The Post & Email received a letter dated March 20, 2017 from Mr. Michael Alston, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Civil Rights in Washington, DC. The letter related to a…
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TDOC Spokeswoman: Reports of Dangerous Conditions at CCA-Run Prison “Inaccurate”
WHO IS LYING, AND WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH? WHAT IS “GOOD JOURNALISM?” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 24, 2016) — On Monday, The Post & Email spoke with Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) spokeswoman Neysa Taylor about the myriad reports from inmates and their relatives describing an understaffed, gang-operated environment at the Trousdale Turner Correctional…
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Inmate Reports Assault by Female Correction Officer, Coercion, Retaliation by Relocation
“BALLING UP HER FIST AND PUNCHING ME IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 22, 2016) — A five-page letter from a Tennessee state prison inmate received on Friday detailed an allegation of assault and unwarranted punishment in “the Hole,” meaning solitary confinement, despite video evidence alleged to show that the inmate…
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TDOC Inmate Jerome Johnson Continues to Fight “Institutional Corruption”
“THE SECRET TO MY MOVE IS RETALIATION” by Jerome L. Johnson, TDOC Inmate #150724 (Feb. 15, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: In December, Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Jerome L. Johnson was inexplicably moved, against prison regulations necessitating a justified change in classification, to Site 1, the most dangerous part of the Northwest Correctional Complex…
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Report: NWCX Inmate “Hit Repeatedly in the Face” by Correction Officer
AND “SPRAYED IN THE FACE BY A CHEMICAL AGENT” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 1, 2016) — On Monday, The Post & Email received the following letter from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) who has corresponded with us before. Identification of the inmate and correctional staff involved have been redacted to avoid retaliation…
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About Snowden
HERO OR TRAITOR? by Dwight Kehoe, ©2013, blogging at TPATH (Jun. 24, 2013) — Admittedly there is still much to learn about Mr. Snowden and his perceived or proven agenda. But enough time has passed and enough information has been tossed around, some good, some bad and mostly unsubstantiated, for us to be able to…
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Tennessee Mother Regains Custody of Daughter after Nearly Three-Year Struggle, Part 1
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE AND “THE GODFATHER” WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP CRIMINAL JUDGES IN POWER by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 6, 2012) — A Tennessee mother who lost custody of both of her young daughters because of two vindictive fathers and two juvenile court judges has regained full custody of her older daughter, Jozie, in a development…