By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First there was a picture sent to Jimenna Whitner’s cell phone 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 killed.
“From the pictures and stuff we knew they weren’t playing,” said Whitner, who earns $800 to $900 a month cleaning rental mobile homes for new tenants. “We don’t have money.”
But Whitner found a way to pay the inmates who had allegedly punched and kicked her brother, a convicted rapist, for about two hours in a cell block shower. She raised the money from relatives and paid the inmates through “Green Dot” cash cards that carry VISA or MasterCard logos.
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Money tranfers should use finger print without electronics,once used, even through BANKs,etc,etc ..one,as everyone of us loses there rights of handling there money,that is by LAW,once eletronic signage,,,all is and should be known,,,,it allbecoming Fraud,Identity theif,etc,etc,etc…