Celebrity zookeeper Joe Exotic called out his Georgia senators and candidate Herschel Walker over prison conditions.
The Netflix-dubbed “Tiger King,” whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage took to Instagram to complain about his prison transfer, blaming Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), along with GOP senate candidate Herschel Walker. Maldonado-Passage, 59, was convicted and found guilty of hiring someone to murder animal activist Carole Baskin. His sentence was reduced to 21 years, shortened by one year in January. He was previously incarcerated at a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, to receive medical treatment for his cancer.
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“I have officially landed at the bottom of hell, at the Federal Prison in Atlanta GA. Senator Oshoff, Warnock, and Walker are all lying to you Black Voters of Georgia because the Animals at the Atlanta Zoo are living better than your loved ones are in here I promise,” Maldonado-Passage wrote on Instagram. “Fix this s***.”
Ossoff is the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and has held multiple hearings on prison conditions nationwide. As recently as July, the subcommittee welcomed Rebecca Shepard, an attorney for the Federal Defender Program in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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“Defenders see firsthand how USP Atlanta subjects people to inhumane and substandard conditions and limits their access to attorneys, which in turn interferes with their Sixth Amendment right to counsel,” Shepard said at the hearing’s beginning. “The result is deplorable and punitive conditions which courts defenders and our clients have observed for decades. USP Atlanta’s practices and policies do not allow us to fulfill our constitutional and ethical obligations of zealous advocacy.”
An online petition to free Maldonado-Passage has over 20,000 signatures.
