Tyrone Perry #307793 is a 46 year old Black man imprisoned in SC's Perry… Read the rest
Correctional (sic!) Institution [PCI]. He's been imprisoned in SC for 20
years. Throughout this time he's endured medical and mental health neglect
while suffering degenerative brain
Kevin "Rashid" Johnson is experiencing yet another round of deliberately denied medical/dental treatment at the hands of prison officials, this time for an abscessed tooth, while held against his will under interstate compact in a prison system outside of Virginia,… Read the rest
Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been … Read the rest
Since Nov 17, 2025 Virgina’s media has been awash with reports that on that day a guard in the state’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center was stabbed to death by a prisoner. Two other guards were reported as also injured … Read the rest
Since I was interstate transferred to South Carolina from the Virginia prison system on May 1, 2025, I have endured continued abuses and retaliation in response to and to deter my role in publicizing, resisting and organizing against abuses in … Read the rest
For years, prisoncrats have been building momentum behind pushing for laws to authorize installing cellphone jammers in state prisons. A coalition of state attorneys general are pressing for these laws to counter federal laws that presently prohibit anyone except federal … Read the rest
The inhumanity of Virginia’s prisons knows no limits. The experiences of Neil Lyness aka Turbo proves the case. Neil is a double-amputee who lost his left arm and left leg in a motorcycle accident. He’s been confined since 2012, where … Read the rest
For the darker hue
It remains like slavery of olden days
At any moment
One’s dearest could be
Sold away
Or their existence
Stole away
Heartache wrenched from smiles
On a day
Begun with sunshine
Defiled…
Each moment lived
Pregnant … Read the rest
We in strip clubs
Throwing ones
They at the range
Loading guns
We having dance offs
Booties twerking
They training hand-to-hand
Bodies working
We gouge on junk food
Overweight
They in gyms
Hitting weights
We in the hood
Chasing ghetto … Read the rest
Mama, where my daddy?
He should have been here long ago
Baby I know and I’ll try to explain
Why he just couldn’t show
But Mama, does Daddy love me?
Child you know he do
Truth be told son
Bad … Read the rest
The Virginia legislature created an ombudsman’s office in July 2024, charged with overseeing and investigating the Virginia prison system. Andrea Sapone was appointed as ombudsman that September. The creation of this office was backed by advocacy groups who believed the … Read the rest
Sneaky racism is no longer the order of the day. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement within the Republican party, white supremacy is rearing its ugly head in the open… once … Read the rest