Let me paint a picture for you. In this case art doesn’t merely imitate reality, it captures it.
In Va, prisoners are paid pennies per hour to perform labor that keeps its prisons operating which … Read the rest
“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 … Read the rest
The Virginia legislature enacted a set of laws governing the state’s prison system. Under those laws it designated a director as the system’s head of operations. (1)
Chadwick Dotson was appointed under the administration of present Virginia governor Glenn Younkin … Read the rest
In a token response to widespread exposure and calls for investigations of prisoners setting themselves on fire in desperate response to rampant racism and abuse at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, the prison system announced the appointment of a new … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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It’s almost depressing how deeply snitch culture has become ingrained in today’s prison culture. Only a few decades ago, prisoners set specific limits on how we engaged with guards and refused to entertain conversations with officials about other prisoners or … Read the rest
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 rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest