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Tennessee State Penitentiary Inmate: Monroe County “Like a Town in Cuba”
“THEY DON’T LIKE IT WHEN I TELL THE TRUTH”
The Post & Email
Todd Sweet, ©2012, Inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex
1/14/2012
Excerpts:
"Editor’s Note: The Post & Email is in receipt of a 13-page letter from an inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg, TN, who was previously housed at the Monroe County, TN jail and has described the conditions he found while there.....................................
The Post & Email has never received anything in either verbal or written form from any public official in Monroe County which refutes any of its reports about the conditions in the jail, the alleged rigging of the grand juries, and the judicial malfeasance which has been reported. We have actually received documentation which supports what residents there have told us, such as an arrest warrant with the wrong address on it. Unlike local publications in Monroe County, this newspaper has an open mind and would welcome and publish any documentation which refutes any of the information published here. However, unlike other publications, we do not toe the government line. We expose the facts as they become available.......................
Page 1 of Todd Sweet's letter regarding conditions in the Monroe County jail
© by Todd J Sweet – Conditions 2012 used with permission TJS
Conditions
I want you to imagine a unique little place. In the center of this little town is a block structure. Very old. Very outdated. The structure is where you are kept if you have one to [sic] many beer [sic] and get in your car. Or you get into an arguement [sic] with someone in your home and the police are called. Or it is where you are kept if someone punches your child in the mouth and you take vengence [sic] on them. It is also where rapists and murderers are kept. But a crime is a crime. Even cops come here to this little block structure if they do wrong.
Now as you await a trial to see if you are to be kept here in this block place, the cops get to trick you, acting like they are your lawyer to gain a confession. The cops can even stop your outgoing mail that is addressed to attorneys. Attorneys that you are trying to lure because its [sic] your right to hire whom you think is best to defend you. By federal law.
But your letters never make it.
So you sit and wait as the injustices unfold. You even let the judges know. They dont [sic] care. No one does.
Now inside this block structure, where you are kept it is very cold. Though it is winter, the air ducts blow cold air into some cells. In others it is hot. There is no in between. You are fed fairly well. You are even given ice for your drink.
But that is it when it comes to provisions. In two of the holding places it is dirty. Very dark. It is built to hold 16-20 men. This would be fine because then there would be a bunk for your mattress. But as you enter you realize that if your [sic] not willing to fight for it then you must lay your mat on the dirty floor that is your new home. And guess what? There is [sic] not 16-20 men in this place. No. There is [sic] 40 or more. You must step over bodys [sic] to get to the toilet. To get to the shower.
It stinks. Staph infection and M.R.S.A. are rampant but because you are forced to lay your blanket and mat on the dirty floor you are more susceptible to these infections."
View the complete article at:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/01/...-town-in-cuba/
“THEY DON’T LIKE IT WHEN I TELL THE TRUTH”
The Post & Email
Todd Sweet, ©2012, Inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex
1/14/2012
Excerpts:
"Editor’s Note: The Post & Email is in receipt of a 13-page letter from an inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg, TN, who was previously housed at the Monroe County, TN jail and has described the conditions he found while there.....................................
The Post & Email has never received anything in either verbal or written form from any public official in Monroe County which refutes any of its reports about the conditions in the jail, the alleged rigging of the grand juries, and the judicial malfeasance which has been reported. We have actually received documentation which supports what residents there have told us, such as an arrest warrant with the wrong address on it. Unlike local publications in Monroe County, this newspaper has an open mind and would welcome and publish any documentation which refutes any of the information published here. However, unlike other publications, we do not toe the government line. We expose the facts as they become available.......................
Page 1 of Todd Sweet's letter regarding conditions in the Monroe County jail
© by Todd J Sweet – Conditions 2012 used with permission TJS
Conditions
I want you to imagine a unique little place. In the center of this little town is a block structure. Very old. Very outdated. The structure is where you are kept if you have one to [sic] many beer [sic] and get in your car. Or you get into an arguement [sic] with someone in your home and the police are called. Or it is where you are kept if someone punches your child in the mouth and you take vengence [sic] on them. It is also where rapists and murderers are kept. But a crime is a crime. Even cops come here to this little block structure if they do wrong.
Now as you await a trial to see if you are to be kept here in this block place, the cops get to trick you, acting like they are your lawyer to gain a confession. The cops can even stop your outgoing mail that is addressed to attorneys. Attorneys that you are trying to lure because its [sic] your right to hire whom you think is best to defend you. By federal law.
But your letters never make it.
So you sit and wait as the injustices unfold. You even let the judges know. They dont [sic] care. No one does.
Now inside this block structure, where you are kept it is very cold. Though it is winter, the air ducts blow cold air into some cells. In others it is hot. There is no in between. You are fed fairly well. You are even given ice for your drink.
But that is it when it comes to provisions. In two of the holding places it is dirty. Very dark. It is built to hold 16-20 men. This would be fine because then there would be a bunk for your mattress. But as you enter you realize that if your [sic] not willing to fight for it then you must lay your mat on the dirty floor that is your new home. And guess what? There is [sic] not 16-20 men in this place. No. There is [sic] 40 or more. You must step over bodys [sic] to get to the toilet. To get to the shower.
It stinks. Staph infection and M.R.S.A. are rampant but because you are forced to lay your blanket and mat on the dirty floor you are more susceptible to these infections."
View the complete article at:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/01/...-town-in-cuba/