Since news broke this past October about multiple prisoners setting themselves on fire at Red Onion State Prison, Va officials have been in damage control mode trying to downplay the inhumane conditions existing in this and other remote Va prisons.
… Read the restINTRODUCTION
During Jan 2024 I was transferred away from Virginia’s notoriously racist and abusive Red Onion State Prison, after participating in a group hunger strike protesting conditions at the prison. My strike ultimately lasted 71 days. I returned to the
… Read the restOn Apr 2, 2024, at Virginia’s Sussex 1 State Prison, Rivan, a prison attack dog, was killed. He was allegedly stabbed to death by a Latino prisoner who the dog had been sicced on by guards.
In the days that
… Read the restWalter Kissee is confined to a wheelchair. He can’t walk. His disability was caused by having a huge chunk of his leg ripped out by a prison attack dog on April 13, 2024 at Virginia’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center.
… Read the restIt’s Nov 11, 2024, 10:52 am. My neighbor here at Red Onion State Prison’s D-3 solitary confinement cellblock was just tear gassed for the most absurd reason. Which is typical here, where white guards don’t use force because they NEED
… Read the restThere is a literal crisis of denied and substandard treatment of prisoners’ serious health conditions in Virginia. My own experiences give testament to this.
During 2021 I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) from confinement in a series
… Read the rest”We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people, other people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States.” (1)
Huey P. Newton made an accurate comparison when he stated that police in Black
… Read the restWhen whites who witnessed the brutal reality of Blacks suffering at the hands of the U.S capitalist imperialist and white supremacist system asked Huey P. Newton how they could help, he told them to go and start a White Panther
… Read the restYou call it independence day
Oh my how you lie
Cuz Black folks were still your slaves
On that day in July
If taxation without representation
Was just cause for outrage
How about being enslaved
>From cradle to grave
To
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