Tom Ranes MEDICAL NEGLECT BY FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM

On December 15, 2022, Tom Ranes walked out of FCI LA TUNA in El Paso Texas to board a plane to Alabama. It was disorienting and scary, he had spent over 16 years in the Federal Prison System. Everything about the outside world had changed, from getting an UBER, going through TSA at the airport, IPHONES! He had spent most of this time in small cells and had limited time with people and here he was walking around in a world moving so fast. A world that went on while he languished physically from years of medical neglect. He fought with every fiber of his being to get home, and come home to his family.

Tom was sentenced to 30 years on federal Marijuana Conspiracy and Trafficking crimes. An unjust sentence, one not in line with his involvement. As the years passed and appeals were lost, marijuana was becoming legal and even the business of marijuana became a BILLION dollar industry. Tom filed for pardons, and clemency - anything that he and the family could do was done. In 2021, the family hired Thomas Root of https://lisa-legalinfo.com, a federal prison consulting company and well-known legal blog, to draft a Compassionate Release motion. Along with the help of the Alaska Federal Public Defender’s office, Tom’s sentence was reduced to time served with special home confinement on ankle monitoring for 2 years and 6 years of probation. These fantastic attorneys stuck by Tom believed in his cause and got him home!

Please check out Tom’s story on Freedom Grow’s website. This fantastic organization supported Tom on many levels through his incarceration.

Freedomgrow.org Tom Ranes Story

Tom and Emory reunited.

Soon after Tom’s arrest in April 2006, he was sent to a federal detention center, SEATAC. It was here where Tom, a healthy and strong young man, had fallen from a top cell bunk and had a serious injury to his tailbone. This was the moment he entered the Bureau of Prisons medical system and changed him physically forever. He suffered from significant digestive tract issues and diseases from this injury in which he received over twenty surgeries during his incarceration. Tom has had multiple sections of his large intestine removed due to complications from medical treatment he received while in BOP custody, followed by multiple procedures to implant and then repair medical mesh for an incisional hernia. In 2019, Tom suffered a herniated disc and a detached disc in his spine and never received the necessary surgery for this injury.

On top of the medical conditions with which he was suffering he received inadequate and mostly nonexistent dental care. As result, he lost most of his teeth. Aside from not having a smile, he can’t eat foods that he would love to because of this. Imagine not having a steak for 16 years and not being able to eat one without problems!!

We are humbly putting out the call for help and donations to give Tom assistance with upcoming medical bills and dental work. The government took EVERYTHING from Tom, EVERYTHING. He is starting over with nothing and is currently getting support from friends and family. Some great organizations have donated funds as well. Tom is highly skilled and hardworking but his medical conditions still exist and he is scheduled for procedures and multiple surgeries in the coming weeks, he will be unable to work for many months as he recovers.

Your donation will be most appreciated and is going to someone who will put 100% into healing and getting back to work. He has goals and dreams and a lot of years left in him, thankfully that hope was not taken away from him all those years. Sadly, one of Tom's reasons to live and fight for freedom was taken from him. His daughter, Hannah, just 22 years old died unexpectedly last year before Tom was released. Our goal is to make Tom whole again, but he will never be with the loss of his precious daughter. His son Emory is the shining light and driving force behind Tom's will to keep going. Emory is currently attending the University of Florida studying pre-med. He plans on becoming an orthopedic surgeon and dreams of working with athletes. We honor Hannah's memory, she is loved and missed and will never be forgotten.

Thank you to everyone who reads my story or donates!

Tom Ranes & Family