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 rest

In 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 rest

For 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 rest

It’s really common sense that those in power, who abuse power, will resist and attempt to suppress those who expose their abuses.

The head of the Virginia prison system, director Chadwick Dotson, has been exposed as lying to hide racist … Read the rest