Tag: Tennessee
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Tennessee Judge Grants Permission for The Post & Email to Record Court Hearing
IN STATE OF TENNESSEE V. ROY COOK by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 26, 2015) — At the conclusion of court proceedings on August 18 at the Roane County, TN courthouse in Kingston in the case of State of Tennessee v. Roy Cook, a new hearing date was set for November 16 during which Cook’s allegations against…
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Tennessee Appellate Court Opines Grand Jury “Bias” Acceptable
ASSERTS “FALSE ALLEGATIONS” WERE MADE AGAINST FORMER GRAND JURY FOREMAN by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 18, 2015) — In an opinion stamped “Filed” on September 8, 2015, a Knoxville appellate court upheld the conviction of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III for aggravated perjury and extortion in June of last year. The Post & Email received the document…
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Inmate Incident Reports Altered One Day After Legislative Hearing on Prison Safety, Violence, Staffing Shortages
INDIVIDUAL REPORTS NOW SAY “ASSAULT;” MASTER REPORT CITED “ILLNESS” AS CAUSE FOR HOSPITALIZATION by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 5, 2015) — On Friday, The Post & Email received a letter from Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) inmate Bryant K. Lewis, who has written to us over the summer in a series of letters about violence within the…
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Fitzpatrick Reports Another Prisoner “Held Hostage” in Class for Cash
LEARNING-DISABLED MAN FORCED TO TAKE CLASS FROM WHICH HE WILL NEVER GRADUATE, DESPITE VOCATIONAL SKILLS AND AVAILABLE PROGRAMS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 30, 2015) — The Post & Email is in receipt of a letter dated “15 August 2015” from Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN…
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Tennessee Inmate Cites Loss of Life, Suffering Resulting from Uncontrolled Prison Gangs
“THE OUTCRY IS VERY REAL” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 26, 2015) — A Tennessee legislative subcommittee will meet on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. CDT at the Capitol, Legislative Plaza, Nashville to discuss complaints from corrections officers stemming from a scheduling change which took effect last year blamed for poor morale, a significant number of resignations,…
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Update on Impeachment Mission!
MEMBER OF HOUSE COMMITS TO INTRODUCING ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT IN HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE by U.S. Patriots Union, ©2015 (Aug. 24, 2015) — ALL MEMBERS, DONORS AND SUPPORTERS, We started the National Impeachment movement only weeks ago, in Tennessee and have since established Constitutional Accountability Coalitions in at least 22 states… Legally, we only needed ONE…
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TDOC Inmate Provides Documentation of Hospitalizations from Recent Gang Violence Indicated as “Illness”
CORRECTIONS OFFICERS FACE SEVERE FATIGUE, STRESS, UNDERSTAFFING AND DANGEROUS CONDITIONS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 19, 2015) — Over the last several weeks, The Post & Email has received several letters from Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Bryant K. Lewis describing horrendous working conditions within the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) located in Tiptonville. On July…
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Report: Seriously-Ill TDOC Inmate “About to Give Up”
“I’M TIRED OF HURTING” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 3, 2015) — On Monday morning, The Post & Email received a copy of a letter written by Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate Timothy Aaron Baxter to his father, Lee, from the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville. On July 24, NWCX was the scene of…
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Is the Case Against Spencer Schuelke Fueled by Retaliation?
ACCUSED’S FATHER ALLEGED ELECTORAL CORRUPTION; SON ARRESTED BY STATE TROOPER WITHIN CITY LIMITS; NO DOCUMENTATION RECEIVED BY ACCUSED MONTHS LATER by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 22, 2015) — On December 12, 2014, 20-year-old Spencer Curtis Schuelke was stopped and arrested in his driveway for allegedly driving under the influence (DUI) by Tennessee Highway Patrolman John Welker…
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Tennessee State Inmate Describes Horror Behind Prison Walls
REPORT: GANG MEMBERS RUN PRISON, NOT CORRECTIONS OFFICERS, WARDEN by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 14, 2015) — The Post & Email is in receipt of a letter from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN which describes the facility as “the most dangerous and violent prison in the State of Tennessee (including…
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Tennessee State Rep’s Office Conveys Department of Corrections’ Denial of Fitzpatrick’s Attempted Assault Claim
“NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 13, 2015) — On July 6, The Post & Email reported that a Tennessee resident contacted State Rep. John Forgety‘s office regarding the allegations made in several successive letters by TDOC prisoner #54003, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who alleged that an instructor at the Northwest…
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Urgent! Second National Impeachment Call Tonight!
ALL HANDS ON DECK! by the U.S. Patriots Union, ©2015 (Jul. 6, 2015) — ALL AMERICANS…. Last Monday night, we had a very successful first national impeachment conference call with many states represented. We entered that call with ONE state impeachment coalition in Tennessee.Thanks to The Constitutional Accountability Coalition of Tennessee, we enter tonight’s second …
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Will There Be Justice for Timothy Aaron Baxter?
JURY TRIAL SCHEDULED ONLY EIGHT DAYS AFTER PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 20, 2015) — On Tuesday, June 16, Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) prisoner #304285, Timothy Aaron Baxter, appeared at a pre-trial conference in Jackson, TN for his federal lawsuit filed for injuries sustained after two correctional officers assaulted him with an axe…
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The Volunteer State Imposes Involuntary Servitude on Its Citizens
WHERE ARE TENNESSEANS’ “CIVIL RIGHTS?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 19, 2015) — In another case of Tennessee corruption, Spencer Curtis Schuelke was stopped for DUI by Tennessee Highway Patrolman John Welker last December 12 in what has been described to The Post & Email and reported publicly by the Knoxville News Sentinel as the “Tennessee…
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The Post & Email Calls Out Tennessee Prison Warden for Prisoners-for-Profit, Intimidation
“A REPLICA OF NAZI GERMANY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 16, 2015) — The following letter has been placed in Tuesday morning’s mail to the two recipients indicated in response to a series of letters received from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) describing increasing threats, intimidation, unwarranted write-ups, the unmet need for medical and dental…
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Fitzpatrick Reports Second Prisoners-for-Profit Scheme
“TROUBLE IS ONLY GOING TO RAMP UP” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 14, 2015) — As reported on June 4, The Post & Email received a letter from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who has been imprisoned by the state of Tennessee since August 19 of last year on a three-year sentence for convictions of…
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Report: Tennessee Inmate Could Be Deathly Ill
NO RESPONSE FROM COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 11, 2015) — On Wednesday, The Post & Email received a communication from a close relative of Tennessee inmate Timothy Aaron Baxter, prisoner #304285, which indicated that Baxter could have a life-threatening illness for which he has not received proper medical care. Last Friday, The Post…
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Former Tennessee Police Officer: Distrust, Contempt Mar Relations Between Law Enforcement and the Public
REPORT: PREJUDICE, ANGER CAN LEAD TO USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE by Sharon Rondeau (May 30, 2015) — A former five-year Tennessee law enforcement official recently spoke with The Post & Email, reporting that his employment in the Volunteer State was marked by a high level of distrust between law enforcers and the citizens they are…
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Appeals Hearing Held in Fitzpatrick Case
ATTY. VAN IRION: GRAND JURY WAS DEFECTIVE FROM THE OUTSET by Sharon Rondeau (May 21, 2015) — On Tuesday, oral argument was heard in the appeal of State of Tennessee v. Walter Fitzpatrick, 14CR69, in which CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was convicted of “aggravated perjury” and “extortion” by a McMinn County, TN trial…
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Mike Parsons Released From Prison
BUT FOR HOW LONG? by Sharon Rondeau (May 17, 2015) — On Sunday The Post & Email learned that TDOC prisoner Michael Wayne Parsons, whose story we have covered for nearly a year, was released from prison on Saturday afternoon. He was remanded to the custody of Tipton County sheriff’s deputies, who released him several…