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INTRODUCTION

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

In a 2023 article I outlined how officials manufactured gangs and gang wars in Virginia’s remote supermax prisons Red Onion (RO) and Wallens Ridge; I also demonstrated why this was done, namely to justify the continued operation of these two

LIES ABOUT DOG ATTACKS

In an Aug 1, 2021 article about lawsuits brought by Virginia prisoners who had been mauled by prison attack dogs, a prison spokesperson was cited as saying, “canine units are used solely for purposes of detecting

In my experience, most times when people are abused in prison and report it to their loved ones on the outside, the response is either disbelief or the assumption that the victim did something wrong. And even if the prisoner

On 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

Walter 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.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.” – Frederick

It’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