Fyodor Dostoyevsky was right. Anyone who wants to determine a society’s level of progress only needs to look inside its prisons. This is because prisons are a condensed version of the society that produces them.
Indeed, as the U.S. Supreme
… Read the restIn a recent article I pointed out the racial double standard applied where officials publicized that several Black guards had been criminally charged with assault on prisoners that occurred in Virginia’s Black-staffed prisons, while no charges have been issued against
… Read the restFor the first time that I know of, a Virginia government official has publicly admitted that prisons located in the state’s poor rural segregated white communities like Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons exist solely to prop up these
… Read the restDuring latter 2024 I put out a call to create a prisoner support network and organization called PAPA or People Against Prison Abuse. The purpose of PAPA was to create a broad base of public support for prisoners made up
… Read the restOn Feb 10, 2025 a meeting was held by people and members of groups who support or have signed on to PAPA (People Against Prison Abuse). This was our fifth meeting. At that meeting several things were decided:
First, we
… Read the restOn Jan 28, 2025 three guards at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Center were reported as having been criminally charged for violent assaults on prisoners. (1) Greensville is one of Va’s predominantly Black-staffed prisons that houses medium security level prisoners. Thanks to
… Read the restOn December 15, 2024, Dwight Jackson, a Black man confined at Keen Mountain, yet another remote Virginia prison, was electrocuted by guards with a 50,000 volt electric shock belt for fun.
The shocking assault happened while Dwight was being transported
… Read the restThe name Ekong Eshiet has become widely known in the media, after he and numerous other prisoners set themselves on fire in desperate efforts to be transferred away from the racist abuses at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison.
After a
… Read the restThere is a rally to shut down Virginia’s Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons set to take place in downtown Richmond, Virginia at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square on Jan 8, 2025 from 2-3pm.
This rally comes in
… Read the restI’ve been writing articles on U.S. prison abuses for decades – since 2004. My first report was about racism and mistreatment at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, titled “Red Onion State Prison, An Exposé: Racism and Abuse Equals Kind and
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