Todd Chrisley Claims He’s Being Blackmailed In Prison

Todd Chrisley is speaking out against the treatment that he is receiving in prison and how he is being blackmailed, something that his children, Savannah Chrisley and Chase Chrisley, have corroborated. The Chrisley Knows Best star is currently serving a sentence for a multi-million-dollar bank fraud and tax evasion scheme. His wife, Julie, is also serving a sentence for her role in the crime. He recently spoke with News Nation, claiming that he is being blackmailed by the staff of the prison he is at in Pensacola, Florida.

“There are recordings of staff members here talking about, ‘He needs to be humbled,’” he said in the interview. “There was a photograph taken of me while I was sleeping and sent to my daughter, asking for $2,600 a month for my protection.” While Savannah and Chase have alleged that there is black mold in his prison, Todd says that it is much worse. “It is so disgustingly filthy. The food is literally, I’m not exaggerating — the food is dated, and it’s out of date by, at minimum, a year,” he said. Todd says he’s being punished daily for being brave enough to speak about the alleged living conditions.

Chrisley also went on to allege that men are starving to death. “It’s a year past expiration. And they are literally starving these men to death here. These men are getting — I don’t know — they are getting a thousand calories a day,” he explained. “Rather than eating the free meals offered, Todd was using his money to eat at the commissary, but he claims that he has also been sabotaged. “I’ve been told this by a staff member — one of the ways she’s trying to break me is by cutting down what you can buy in [the] commissary,” he said.

“So, before she came here, you could buy 12 packs of tuna a week. She cut it down to six, and from six, it went to three,” he added. “She had not given a reason — when I asked her about it, she said commissary is a privilege, not a right.” Chrisley went on to say that he gets his protein where he can. “I eat tuna, I eat peanut butter — that’s where I get protein. I eat, like, a pasta salad that I make. And then I start over again doing the same thing the next week,” he noted.