Chadwick Dotson has been the director of Virginia’s prison system since September 2023.
Before this appointment, he was a chief judge in the Circuit Court for Wise County, Va. He was also a past prosecuting attorney and dean of students … Read the rest
Tomeka Wallace is the mother of Demetrius Wallace, one of several Black men who set themselves on fire in latter 2024 at Virginia’s notorious Red Onion State Prison, in desperate response to racist abuses at the prison.
She has witnessed … Read the rest
The government’s use of euphemisms is simply a sly way of lying. When a cop murders a defenseless child of color in cold blood, shooting him in the back, police departments call it a “police involved shooting.” This serves to … Read the rest
Click here to download Main Line #10 September 2024.… Read the rest
WHO IS JOSEPH STEWART?
Joseph ‘’Shine White’’ Stewart has suffered many years of brutal oppression at the hands of North Carolina prison officials because of his tireless work as an imprisoned revolutionary anti-racist and anti-imperialist.
He is a political prisoner … Read the rest
Over 400 years
Of Black bondage
Overwork underpay
For 30 days we pay homage
To those who resisted
The worst inhumanities
Conditions that cost
Many the loss of sanity
A people less astute
And fortified
Might have succumbed
And died… Read the rest
Invade and topple governments you dislike
-regime change
But you’d never accept
the same done to you
-how strange
Then you ask
Why do they hate us?
well…you just bombed their lands
Killed their kids
razed their towns
but you … Read the rest
On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in … Read the rest
On the evening of October 18, 2023 I was ordered to pack my belongings to be moved to another cell here at Sussex 1 State Prison. The cell, number 13, in the D-block of 3 building had been vacant … Read the rest
Founded by Huey P. Newton
and Bobby Seale,
In October 1966
the people’s weapon to wield.
The Black Panther Party
for Self Defense,
To defend and serve poor communities
it made perfect sense.
Patrolling the cops with guns and law … Read the rest
