The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the agency had advised law enforcement to be aware of safety.Ī TBI spokesman, however, said there was “no specific threat” against law enforcement.Īccording to the state, Terry was sentenced to prison July 28, 2005. “TDOC is unaware of any specific and/or credible threats to law enforcement or corrections personnel,” the department’s communications director Neysa Taylor said in a statement. However, TDOC said that information is not correct. Rumors spread across social media and some news outlets that the Vice Lords threatened to put out a “hit” on law enforcement officers.
Only one state facility, Morgan County Correctional Complex, is still on partial lockdown, the department said. The facilities returned to normal operations after TDOC reviewed intelligence and evaluated security at each facility. The state did not say whether the measures were specifically related to Terry’s death. Triangulating from autoethnographic materials and. Law enforcement sources say 49-year-old Ronald Terry, who was found shot to death last Thursday, is the former local kingpin of the nationwide Vice Lords street gang. The lived experiences of Atheists have been ignored almost entirely. Prisons across the state went on temporary lockdown last week “out of an abundance of caution for the safety and security of the department’s inmates, staff & facilities,” the Tennessee Department of Corrections said. The University of Memphis Abstract Existing research on Atheists is sparse. The facility remained on lockdown status Thursday while the TDOC Office of Investigations and Compliance continues to investigate the incident, the company said.
Known on the streets as the TVLs, the gang is 500 strong and rules the 'River City' with an iron fist. The Vice Lords are founders of the People Nation, an umbrella organization for a large number of allied gangs. Six inmates and four correctional officers were injured. Memphis, Tennessee is a battle ground and the Traveling Vice Lords are at the forefront of the chaos. The Vice Lords are known by a variety of names that represent its sets or chapters. The same day Terry was found dead, two inmate fights broke out at South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, a representative with Core Civic said. He had come to Memphis from Chicago, Illinois to help organize and lead the Vice Lords here in the Memphis.”
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“During the trial there was testimony that he was the leader of the Vice Lords here in Memphis. The defendant was Ronald Terry,” said prosecutor Paul Hagerman. “Back in 2005, 2006 we had an attempted murder trial and some other charges that went along with that. A woman, identified as Candid Sanders, was also found dead in the car, police said.Ī prosecutor with the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Terry was a high-level member of the Vice Lords gang. 10 inside a white Cadillac that plowed through a fence at Dwight and Imogene. Ronald Terry, known as “Big Pokey” or by other nicknames, was found shot to death Jan. A man found dead in a car near the Memphis airport last week was a former Vice Lords gang chief who exposed the organization in a trial, prosecutors said.
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