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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

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

During latter 2024 I put out a call to create a prisoner support network and organization called PAPA or People Against Prison Abuse. The purpose of PAPA was to create a broad base of public support for prisoners made up … Read the rest

On Feb 10, 2025 a meeting was held by people and members of groups who support or have signed on to PAPA (People Against Prison Abuse). This was our fifth meeting. At that meeting several things were decided:

First, we … Read the rest