While researching our previous story about Frisky Frog’s Nashville, where they incorrectly assumed the gender identity of a patron and followed them into the restroom, we received a list of employees as part of our standard confirmation research. What we also noticed that many of these names looked familiar – they appeared as ‘guest reviews’ on both Yelp (and the hidden ones) & Facebook. Let’s take a look at some of the employees & associated people that left stellar reviews for Frisky Frog’s Nashville: As you can see, Jungle R.…
Month: June 2017
Frisky Frog’s Nashville: Assumes Gay Customer’s Gender, Causes Bathroom Blunder
In mid-May, a customer reported on social media they were followed into a restroom by an employee at Frisky Frog’s Nashville, located on Demonbreun St, because they had a hat on backwards, and the bartender was unable to confirm the gender identity of the customer. According the customer, the bartender actually followed her into the restroom in an attempt to confirm her gender identity. ALSO: See Frisky Frog’s Nashville – Fake Reviews! Frisky Frog’s Nashville has not responded to repeated requests for comment. The customers, Bridgett Hardville (known by her professional…
Party In Prison V: Are 3rd Party (G4S) Guards Providing Phones? Meet Toshana Hamilton
In our 5th installment of the ‘Party In Prison’ investigation, we hope to provide some insight into how guards/correctional officers, who are not state of Tennessee employees, have direct access to inmates in TN State prisons, and have direct links to current inmates on social media – often even the first person that is ‘friended’ on brand new social media accounts when they are created on a newly acquired cell phone by an inmate. Let’s look at an example, and you can decide if hiring 3rd party contractors to act…
Party In Prison IV: Friends in High Places – Guards as Friends on Social Media
When we received a tip about an inmate posting on social media from within prison, we had no idea how far reaching the issue still was, especially after WSMV’s statewide investigation that began 4 years prior, and still continues. Today, we continue the series, with Part IV – Friends in High Places. While we expected to find inmates talking to each other on social media, and friends on those accounts, what we did not expect to find was state employees and Tennessee Department of Correction prison guards and third-party contractors…
Party in Prison III: Inmate Kortavious Carwell Issues Challenge with Two New Cell Phones
Hours after we published an article last week that included TDOC Inmate Kortavious Carwell’s cell phone and social media activity from behind prison walls, he was back on social media, with a brand new account, with TWO cell phones, a live stream from NWCX, and a link to an unexpected Facebook Friend – a G4S Guard/Correctional Officer, who is a 3rd Party Contractor used to help staff prisons. We’ll cover more on that link in Part IV of our investigation where we have uncovered multiple guards are friends with multiple…
Party in Prison II: TDOC Inmates with Cellphones, Drugs, Videos & Social Media
Part II of our Party in Prison series, we travel to another TDOC facility, located in Tiptonville. While we realize this is far outside our normal Nashville coverage, we can’t ignore the things we found. Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) houses over 2300 of the states medium-security inmates, under Warden Mike Parris. Our initial investigation began as a tip of a East Nashville inmate who was posting from within prison, from there we were able to link to not only other inmates at Riverbend Prison in Nashville, but MGCC and NWCX,…