Tag: TTCC
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“Notes from Underground”
REPORT: CORRECTION OFFICERS JOKE ABOUT FOOD TO INMATE ON LENGTHY HUNGER STRIKE by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 5, 2017) — The journal entries which follow were sent by Tennessee inmate Grenda Harmer, #88710, who has been on a hunger strike for a month to protest harsh treatment he said he received upon his arrival at the…
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Tennessee Denies Responsibility for Actions of Private Prison Employees
BASED ON CASE LAW by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 2, 2017) — Earlier this year, Tennessee inmate Ronald Allen, #356042, filed a complaint with the Claims Commission of the State of Tennessee, Middle Division, alleging “negligent care, custody or control of personal property and persons” arising from his incarceration at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC)…
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The Post & Email Appears on Tennessee Radio Station to Discuss Prison Corruption
DOZENS OF REPORTS OF DRACONIAN CONDITIONS CORROBORATED BY MAJOR MEDIA by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 23, 2017) — On Friday morning, The Post & Email was David Tulis’s guest on his radio show, Nooganomics, to discuss a significant development in exposing corruption and abuse within Tennessee’s prisons. The segment aired on Hot News Talk Radio at…
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Tennessee Inmate on Hunger Strike Heard From on Wednesday
REPORTS NO FOOD CONSUMED FOR TWO WEEKS AND COUNTING by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2017) — Since receiving a letter on June 11 dated June 8, 2017, The Post & Email has not heard directly from normally-prolific writer and Tennessee inmate Grenda Harmer. In his last letter, Harmer, 64, said that he began a hunger…
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Insider Sources Looking Forward to WSMV Series on Private Prison Corruption
“IT’S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 19, 2017) — As The Post & Email has reported since Friday, Nashville-based television station WSMV will be launching a four-part series at 6:00 PM CDT beginning on Monday and running through Thursday on the subject of corruption, substandard care, short-staffing, deaths and injuries within two…
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Exclusive Prelude to Monday’s Bombshell Report
NASHVILLE TELEVISION STATION TO AIR SERIES ON INFAMOUS PRIVATE TENNESSEE PRISONS by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 17, 2017) — As word has already spread prior to a special report to be issued on Monday, The Post & Email can confirm that WSMV-Channel 4 in Nashville will be broadcasting a four-part series focusing on the Trousdale Turner…
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Report: Inmate Grenda Harmer Relocated, Belongings Confiscated, Possible Threats Made
TOLD TO SIGN PROPERTY LOG WITHOUT RETURN OF BELONGINGS by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 9, 2017) — A reliable source has informed The Post & Email that Tennessee prison inmate Grenda Harmer was roused at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 3 and hastily relocated from the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton to the Morgan…
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Inmate Says Medical Care “a Joke” at Private Tennessee Facility
“HALF THE TIME THEY DON’T BRING” MEDICATIONS by Sharon Rondeau (May 22, 2017) — A letter received on Monday from an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN reinforces numerous reports received over the last year detailing very limited visitation, cold meals served at irregular times, long-term lockdown periods when inmates…
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Report: Medications Restored to SCCF Inmate…
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…
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Why Have Policies if They Are Not Followed?
INMATE’S MEDICATIONS WITHHELD BY PRIVATE PRISON FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS by Sharon Rondeau (May 13, 2017) — On April 27, 2017, Tennessee inmate Grenda Harmer was placed in segregation, or solitary confinement, at the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) on a “pending investigation” (PI) status. One of the reasons alleged for PI status was…
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Notes from Segregation
“PENDING INVESTIGATION”…BUT OF WHAT? by Sharon Rondeau (May 5, 2017) — A letter received on Friday from Tennessee prison inmate Grenda Harmer details conditions in “segregation,” or solitary confinement, in a facility owned and operated by the private corporation CoreCivic as much worse than those in state-run institutions. As with the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center…
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Inmate Asks Prison Commissioner to Uphold Medical Care Contract
IN PRIVATELY-OWNED PRISONS by Sharon Rondeau (May 4, 2017) — On a myriad of occasions, The Post & Email has reported that inmates and their relatives have related over the past year that medical care at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN is substandard and that specifically, prescription medications are not dispensed…
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Former Tennessee Prison Oversight Committee Reported “High Degree of Violence”
AT PRIVATELY-RUN PRISON by Sharon Rondeau (May 2, 2017) — A 2008 “Special Report” filed with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of State Audit conceded that there existed “a history of a high level of violence” at a privately-run facility. The prison identified was the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, one…
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SCCF Retaliates Against Whistleblower Inmate by Withholding Necessary Medications, Segregation
“THEY KEPT ME ON A COLD PIECE OF STEEL FREEZING” by Sharon Rondeau (May 2, 2017) — Letters and documents received from a Tennessee inmate on Monday indicate that he is the object of retaliation by correction officers at the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, TN. SCCF is one of four privately-operated prisons…
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SCCF Inmate Reports He is Again Denied Life-Saving Medication
“IF NOT CORRECTED, IT WILL KILL ME” by Sharon Rondeau (May 1, 2017) — On Monday, The Post & Email received three letters from Tennessee state inmate Grenda Harmer, who wrote that once again he has been denied three essential prescription medications which have placed him at risk of death. Harmer is housed at the…
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Report: Inmate Denied Medical Device, Eyeglasses For Nearly Four Weeks
WITH NO END IN SIGHT by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 28, 2017) — According to Tennessee state inmate Grenda Harmer, after he was abruptly relocated from the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville to the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton on April 5, a therapeutic foam wedge he uses for sleep purposes and…
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Report: Assault on Correction Officers Attempted but Thwarted
“TEAR GAS WAS USED” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 19, 2017) — In a letter dated April 12, 2017, an inmate at the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, TN acknowledged an April 8 incident which took place at the Turney Center Industrial Complex (TCIX) in which three correction officers were injured and hospitalized at…
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Was an Attack on Tennessee Correction Officers Truly “Unprovoked?”
REPORT: INMATES DENIED MEDICATIONS FOR THREE DAYS PRIOR TO INCIDENT by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 17, 2017) — On April 8, 2017, three correction officers were injured at the Turney Center Industrial Complex (TCIX) in Only, TN allegedly by 16 inmates with possible “security threat group,” or gang, affiliations. One of the officers was reportedly taken…
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Inmate Reports “Thumbs-Up” From TTCC Staffer Despite Investigation, Retaliation, Relocation
“I’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 13, 2017) — As The Post & Email reported on Wednesday, on April 3, then-TTCC inmate Grenda Harmer was approached in the prison law library by two correction officers who confiscated the documents on which he had been working and launched an “investigation” while beginning punitive measures…
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TTCC Raids Inmate’s Cell for Post & Email Correspondence, Relocates Inmate in Dark of Night
“THAT WOMAN IN MASSACHUSETTS” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 12, 2017) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email received three letters from Tennessee inmate Grenda Harmer, one with a return address of the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), where he has been housed since last July to our knowledge. The remaining two envelopes show a return…