ALLEGES HEAD INJURIES, EYE-SOCKET FRACTURE, LACERATIONS, IMPAIRED VISION by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 4, 2019) — On Friday The Post & Email received a letter from Shelby County, TN jail inmate Benjamin Miles, #17144506, reporting a brutal assault on the part of an Officer Burns and several other correction officers late last month resulting in Miles’s […]
BUT ORGAN FAILURE, SEIZURES, HALLUCINATIONS CAN OCCUR SOONER by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 1, 2017) — The Scientific American has reported that a number of variables influence how long a terminally-ill person or one on a hunger strike can survive, including whether or not adequate hydration is available. A report on the subject in Business Insider […]
FOR THE SECOND TIME by Sharon Rondeau (May 18, 2017) — In a letter received on Thursday, Tennessee state inmate Grenda Harmer reported that beginning on Sunday afternoon, three prescription medications which were inexplicably discontinued approximately three weeks ago were dispensed. Shortly after arriving at SCCF from another CoreCivic-operated institution on April 5, Harmer reported […]
“BEATEN DOWN” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 3, 2017) — The Post & Email has learned from a reliable source that a description of the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) as being a “hands-on” facility, where correction officers batter the inmates, is accurate. Prisoners at the Wartburg, TN facility have previously communicated to The Post & […]
“I LOST BALANCE AND FELL” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 26, 2017) — An inmate at Tennessee’s Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) reported by means of a formal grievance that he was punched in his right rib cage by a correction officer early last month. The inmate, Richard A. Mayers, requires a wheelchair and has reported […]
WILL THE TRUTH EVER EMERGE? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Aug. 19, 2016) — [The following is the fourth and final installment in a series by Joseph DeMaio which contemplates that the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya was intended to effect the kidnapping of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. […]
BUT “MONDAY MIGHT BE TOO LATE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 19, 2016) — In a letter received on Friday dated June 13, 2016, a Tennessee prison inmate recently relocated to the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville reported that an inmate who requested protective custody (PC) was told by prison staff, “You have to […]
“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 […]
IN LAWLESS TENNESSEE by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 8, 2016) — Early last month, The Post & Email began receiving reports from an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN describing severe understaffing resulting in solitary confinement for 23 hours each day, including for minimum-security inmates. The prison is operated by Corrections […]
INMATE, VISITOR REPORTS TO THE POST & EMAIL CORROBORATED BY NATIONAL NEWS OUTLET by Sharon Rondeau (May 25, 2016) — An article written by the Associated Press published in The New York Times on Tuesday afternoon corroborates the accounts of a number of inmates’ relatives as well as an inmate concerning short-staffing at the Trousdale […]
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST GOVERNMENT ABUSE (Sep. 22, 2012) — [Editor’s Note: The following flyer has been created by Michael Lerman, Trustee of the Walter Fitzpatrick Fund in California.] The battle to stop the tyranny, abuse and corruption urgently needs your help and support now! All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people […]
“NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD” by Todd Sweet, ©2012 (Jan. 22, 2012) — Editor’s Note: The Post & Email had published an initial letter received from Tennessee State Penitentiary inmate Todd Sweet which described his perceptions of life in Monroe County, TN, including his time in the county jail, where he met Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, […]
“A COMPLETE INVESTIGATION OF MONROE COUNTY IS LONG PAST DUE” Jan 9, 2012 To Gov. Haslam and all others concerned: To say I am distressed would be an understatement! Today we visited a friend at the Monroe County, TN. Jail. This man, Walter Fitzpatrick, is a retired Lt. Commander in the Navy. Now he is […]
COMPLAINT REFERRED TO THE TENNESSEE CORRECTIONS INSTITUTE December 29, 2011 Dear Editor: The following email was sent to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s office: To the Gov on Dec. 17, 2011 Subject—Will retired Naval Commander die on your watch? Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III is being held in a cold solitary confinement cell in the Monroe County, […]
TWO YOUNG GIRLS SNATCHED FROM THEIR MOTHER AS A RESULT OF RETALIATION AND CRONYISM by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 29, 2011) — Recently The Post & Email spoke with Karen Caldwell, a 26-year-old mother who has been fighting for her constitutional rights against the corrupt Tennessee judicial machine for two years in an effort to regain […]
RAT INFESTATION IN KITCHEN REPORTED by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 7, 2011) — A visitor who spoke with Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III on November 6 for about 30 minutes via the jail telephone has told The Post & Email that the jail’s kitchen is “infested” with rats and the women prisoners are on the verge of […]
HORRIFIC CONDITIONS REPORTED AND OBSERVED by M. J. Blanchard (Oct. 31, 2011) — The following information was taken from notes entered on an ACLU supermax check list and a recording made immediately after an interview was conducted of Walter Fitzpatrick III on October 30, 2011 at ~ 0900 hours. The interview took place during visiting […]
“FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 28, 2011) — A visitor to Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who was incarcerated in the Monroe County jail on September 23, 2011, reported that Fitzpatrick has been given a tentative release date of December 2, 2011. Fitzpatrick was arrested following a sentencing hearing on the 23rd, at the […]
WHY ARE THE DEFENDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION BEING PROSECUTED? by Cheryl Denise Simmons, M.B.A. (Oct. 13, 2011) — Make no mistake about it; our beloved country is at war within. Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT a war between left and right, Democrat and Republican, conservative and liberal. Rather it is a war decisively […]