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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 03 > In prison, extorting from outside

In prison, extorting from outside

By Rhonda Cook / The Bulletin
January 3, 2013

ATLANTA — First there was a picture sent to Jimenna Whitner’s cellphone of her brother, who was bloody and beaten.

Next, she got a text message from somewhere inside Baldwin State Prison 950 miles from her home in Michigan, demanding $1,000. Otherwise her inmate brother, Thomas Maher, would be....

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