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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
I have had the displeasure of witnessing official designs to murder by medical neglect the prisoner housed in the cell next to me here at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP). His name is Charles Coleman #1399215.
Charles, a 35 year … Read the rest
The reality of death by medical neglect in the Virginia prison system became all too real to me when I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (sic!) [VDOC] in 2021. I had just spent a decade … Read the rest
On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history of racism and abuse.
Red Onion’s notoriety goes back to when the prison first opened, with a 1999 report by Human … Read the rest
Information received Nov. 7, 2023 from Rashid:
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 … Read the rest
Joe Biden pronounced
Amerika stands with Israel
that the US supports
genocidal plans is real
cuz it still
exists as a land built by
exterminating natives
and Afrikans killed by
being kidnapped and forcibly
enslaved
like the survivors of
the … Read the rest
The least inspired
Reduced to objects
Of men’s desires
These are not
the place
Nor the spaces
She should face
Left to tend the home
To fend alone
Supporting men doing bids
Rearing kids
Fearing sobriety
Fighting anxiety
And all … Read the rest
