Sheriff Normal Dalton from Lewisburg, TN called the Dept. of Homeland Security on Alex Friedmann, editor for the Prison Legal News, after Friedmann made a request for public records.
Friedmann had been working on a column after hearing of complaints coming out of the jail.
He’s now suing the sheriff for refusing to release these public records.
“I think that’s very alarming and very disturbing that a law enforcement officer can do a background check, and in this case actually drove in to check my residence in person just because I filed a public records request with his agency,” Friedmann said.
One local bail bondsman states that prisoners only get 2 meals a day, not 3, and that the sheriff’s office gets a commission off of commissary sold at the jail.
Prisoners should only get 1 meal a day and just enough water to live off of, children in America starve every day why should criminals be treated better than them
Guess you are ok with the sheriff office is getting kickbacks
Prisons are a very big business.
Truth and Action …
I have been on the recieving end of Mr Friedmanns request and grievances.
In my former capacity with TDOC..
While I will say he could be pesty and frivilous at times.
While he was incarecerated I found him to be honest and dedicated to his cause
Privatized prisons are an awful idea.
Yeah so about this…..
You feed them then Robert Peters Emily Hoss Cartright
Big money in the prison industry!
Corruption always at the top! Above the law! We need to spy on all the guys serving the public at the top!
It seems that the Sheriff needs to remember that he works for the people in his county, NOT DHS!!!
those tennessee rednecks need to wake up and pay the police a visit clear across the state. I know they can do it, i know a bunch of them personally… gettem guys