MEMORIALIZING A NEO-NAZI: THE COMMEMORATION OF CHARLIE KIRK (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson For weeks now, the mainstream U.S. media has been awash with coverage and accolades about Charlie Kirk, a racist ultra-right young fascist who was shot to death… Read the rest
THROUGH COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT VIRGINIA OFFICIALS PROMPT PRISONERS TO VIOLENTLY POLICE EACH OTHER (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson If anyone needed further confirmation that Virgina's top officials can't be trusted to safely run the state's prisons, their recently created policy of… Read the rest
Tyrone Perry #307793 is a 46 year old Black man imprisoned in SC's Perry… Read the rest
Correctional (sic!) Institution [PCI]. He's been imprisoned in SC for 20
years. Throughout this time he's endured medical and mental health neglect
while suffering degenerative brain
Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been … Read the rest
On May 24, 2025 a second rally will be held in downtown Richmond, Virginia against abuses in the state’s remote prisons.
We are calling to shut down the state’s two supermax prisons Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, notorious for racism … Read the rest
On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department.
Upon reporting to … Read the rest
Virginia’s rural prisons came into the spotlight in 2024, after several prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, myself included, went on prolonged hunger strikes protesting abusive conditions there, then a dozen more set themselves on fire in desperate efforts to … Read the rest
The following is the second part of an interview with Kevin “Rashid” Johnson by James K. Anderson a member of the IWW Freelance Journalist Union. The first part was titled, “Striking Back Against Prison Slavery.”
JAMES ANDERSON: In the first … Read the rest
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Related to the topic covered in this issue (uses of attack dogs in Virginia prisons), attorneys with … Read the rest
In Oct 2024 the story broke that numerous prisoners at Red Onion State Prison had set themselves on fire in desperate response to racism and abuse at the Virginia prison that has an extensive history of corruption and racism. It … Read the rest
