Virginia officials have always tried to hide what happens inside their prisons from the public. Especially the abuse. 50 years ago in a lawsuit against inhumane conditions at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond, Va,
… Read the restConsider this: In the dead of night while you and your kids are sleeping in bed, a uniformed cop breaks out your back window, crawls inside, creeps into your kids’ room and when
… Read the restI had an experience that illustrated for me just how psychotic these right-wing military types are. The ones who work in rural prisons and police forces in particular. The fearful thing about all this is that these nuts are armed
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There was much fanfare about a new Virginia law that went into effect on Mach 23, 2023 that set specific limits on the use of solitary confinement in Virginia prisons. (1) Long before this law was enacted Va prison officials
… Read the restI have had the displeasure of witnessing official designs to murder by medical neglect the prisoner housed in the cell next to me here at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP). His name is Charles Coleman #1399215.
Charles, a 35 year
… Read the restThe reality of death by medical neglect in the Virginia prison system became all too real to me when I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (sic!) [VDOC] in 2021. I had just spent a decade
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On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history of racism and abuse.
Red Onion’s notoriety goes back to when the prison first opened, with a 1999 report by Human
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Joe Biden pronounced
Amerika stands with Israel
that the US supports
genocidal plans is real
cuz it still
exists as a land built by
exterminating natives
and Afrikans killed by
being kidnapped and forcibly
enslaved
like the survivors of
the
The least inspired
Reduced to objects
Of men’s desires
These are not
the place
Nor the spaces
She should face
Left to tend the home
To fend alone
Supporting men doing bids
Rearing kids
Fearing sobriety
Fighting
