Reality star Todd Chrisley slams “disgustingly filthy” jail situations alleging inmates are “actually ravenous,” served expired meals, employees has tried to blackmail his household, “humble” him.
“It is so disgustingly filthy,” mentioned Chrisley of the jail’s meals in an interview from NewsNation’s Cuomo with Chris Cuomo on Friday, per US Weekly, and he was simply getting began. Chrisley’s legal professional Brian Entin relayed Cuomo’s inquiries to him over the telephone.
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According to the Chrisley Knows Best alum, the jail will not be offering inmates with adequate meals, and what meals they’re getting is “outdated by, at minimal, a yr. It’s a yr previous expiration.”
“And they’re actually ravenous these males to loss of life right here,” Chrisley continued, claiming that prisoners are being fed roughly 1,000 energy a day. For himself, Chrisley mentioned he solely eats meals he purchases from the commissary, however even that is purportedly compromised.
The method Chrisley explains it, a warden on the commissary is “making an attempt to interrupt me” by lowering and limiting his grocery purchases there.
“Before she got here right here, you possibly can purchase 12 packs of tuna per week,” he defined. “She lower it down to 6, and from six it went to a few. She has not given a cause. When I requested her about it, she mentioned commissary is a privilege, not a proper.”
It’s apparently not a proper both, per Chrisley, for that meals to be uncompromised. “You’ve acquired rats, you’ve acquired squirrels within the storage facility the place the meals is,” he mentioned earlier than detailing what he says was a recent effort to handle black mould rising in that very same room.
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“They simply coated [the food] up with plastic after which tore the ceiling out due to all of the black mould and located a lifeless cat within the ceiling,” he mentioned. “And it dropped down on the highest of the meals.”
Chrisley’s lawyer Entin reached out to the jail relating to these claims, per ET, and was instructed “there are nutritious meals” available and they’re updated and tremendous.” Chrisley additional claims the jail will not permit his legal professional in, claiming “it is a breach of safety or no matter,” however he believes “they do not need you in right here the place you may see what’s actually happening.”
Issues with the commissary apparently aren’t Chrisley’s solely issues with the employees on the jail, both. The actuality star accused the employees of trying to “humble” and blackmail him.
In regard to the primary one, he mentioned they prompt placing “him in diesel remedy and put him in shackles and let him trip across the nation for a time after which carry him again and that can humble him,” saying the employees consider “the thinks he’s in one in every of his mansions that he’s used to dwelling in, however that is the f–king [Bureau of Prisons].”
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As for the blackmail, Chrisley alleged that employees took {a photograph} of him whereas sleeping one night time. He then claims the picture “was despatched to my daughter, asking for $2,600 a month for my safety.”
The actuality star’s description of his dwelling situations on the jail would appear to echo these of his son Chase, who mentioned on his podcast Chasin’ Birdies again in May that his father’s jail had black mould, “and my mother’s place is even worse.” He mentioned that her jail in Lexington, Kentucky has no air-con and is extra like “a camp.”
In this primary interview, Todd Chrisley mentioned that he is staying robust, or at the very least making an attempt. “God has a larger objective,” he mentioned. “I do know he is acquired a larger plan and I’m not going to let the federal authorities break my religion.”
After their convictions for tax evasion, conspiracy, and financial institution fraud, the Chrisley Knows Best dad and mom reported to jail in January. Todd was sentenced to 12 years whereas Julie was going through seven. However, each have since seen their sentences lowered by roughly two years every.