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SPOTLIGHT ON VIRGINIA PRISONS: WHY VIRGINIA’S REMOTE PRISONS NEED TO BE PUBLICLY EXPOSED AND CLOSED (2024) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
CULTIVATING SECRECY IN VA PRISONS
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,
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A Cop Violates Your Rights and Home
Consider 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 restMilitarized Virginia Prison Guards Believe Amerika Was Fighting Space Aliens In Afghanistan (2023) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
I 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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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
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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
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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
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I was awakened early this morning (just after 3am) to the sounds of several men in the solitary confinement unit here at Sussex 1 State Prison (S1SP) being rounded up for transfer. Because of the early hours I knew they
… Read the restFrom My Denied And Delayed Cancer Care To The Worst Possible Treatment (2023), by Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson
FROM NO CARE…
It’s been exactly a year and a half since Virginia prison officials had clinical evidence from PSA blood tests that I have prostate cancer and ten months since my cancer was definitively diagnosed by biopsy at the
… Read the restSOME THOUGHTS ON ADVOCACY VERSUS SERVING THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (2022)
SOME THOUGHTS ON ADVOCACY VERSUS SERVING THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SERVING THE PEOPLE AND MY POLITICAL GROWTH
In discussing the differences between advocacy and serving the people, I want to begin with an account
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