Tag: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam
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TTCC Inmate Writes Scathing Letter to Tennessee Governor over Lack of Prison Security, “Gang-Bangers”
CLAIMS CORRECTION OFFICERS “AFRAID OF THE GANG MEMBERS” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 28, 2016) — The following copy of a letter directed to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was received by The Post & Email on Wednesday from Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) inmate Grenda Harmer and corroborates numerous other inmates’ accounts of gang members which…
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Report: Trousdale Turner Prison on Lockdown Since Thanksgiving
“DOES ANYONE CARE?” by Anonymous Relative (Dec. 4, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following was received as a comment on Sunday morning in response to The Post & Email’s June 8, 2016 article titled, “Report: Trousdale Turner Has Incurred Nine Inmate Deaths Since Opening.” The article referred to the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in…
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Tennessee Inmate Describes Rigged Prison, Parole Systems, Citing Constitutional, State, Federal Violations
“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…
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Tennessee Prison System Reaches National Spotlight
WILL PRISON CONDITIONS IMPROVE OR WORSEN WITH SCHOFIELD’S IMMINENT DEPARTURE? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 9, 2016) — In a lengthy and detailed report published on Thursday by NBC News in its “U.S. News” section, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was quoted in his praise of Department of Correction head Derrick Schofield, who tendered his resignation last…
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Walter Fitzpatrick Receives “Class A” Write-Up for Refusal to Participate in Pro-Social Life Skills Class
“WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW HOLDS IN STORE?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 5, 2015) — On Friday, The Post & Email reported that an appeal to a disciplinary write-up filed by TDOC inmate Jerome Johnson to Commissioner Derrick Schofield was denied, with Schofield upholding Warden Mike Parris’s decision to enforce the discipline outlined in the report.…
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Open letter to Governor of the State of Tennessee, Bill Haslam
THE “NATURAL BORN” DIFFERENCE December 15, 2011 I helped re-elect you as Mayor of Knoxville in 2007. After you won, you once again took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I never heard one word…