UPROAR came onto the scene in early 2025 as a prisoner support group composed primarily of prisoners’ loved ones and ex-prisoners. The group was founded in the wake of and response to broad media exposure of extreme abuses of people … Read the rest
During October 2024, while I was confined at Virginia’s notorious supermax, Red Onion State Prison, I broke the story that numerous men had set themselves on fire at the prison in desperate response to intolerable conditions there.
This exposure brought … Read the rest
This video, specifically its reports about me, distorts the truth of who I am and my work, by mixing easily disproven misinformation with some factual material. It also misidentifies me with other people and criminal cases that didn’t involve me. … Read the rest
In my 2020 article, “Selling Out in Court: How Settlements Protect Police Abusers,” (1) I explained the court settlement process and how it works to shield cops and guards who murder and abuse people from accountability at taxpayer expense, and … Read the rest
During October 2024, while I was confined at Virginia’s notorious supermax, Red Onion State Prison, I broke the story that numerous men had set themselves on fire at the prison in desperate response to intolerable conditions there.
This exposure brought … Read the rest
The basis of the dual power strategy of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP) is to occupy space within the oppressed communities from which to resist the dictatorship of the monopoly capitalists and build people’s power based in these … Read the rest
Deputy Director Joseph W. Walters was elevated to lead the Virginia Department of Corrections. His portfolio has long sat where prison labor, “compliance,” and the grievance maze intersect.
When Governor Abigail Spanberger moved to replace Chadwick Dotson at the Virginia … Read the rest
Since Nov 17, 2025 Virgina’s media has been awash with reports that on that day a guard in the state’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center was stabbed to death by a prisoner. Two other guards were reported as also injured … Read the rest
Since I was interstate transferred to South Carolina from the Virginia prison system on May 1, 2025, I have endured continued abuses and retaliation in response to and to deter my role in publicizing, resisting and organizing against abuses in … Read the rest
For years, prisoncrats have been building momentum behind pushing for laws to authorize installing cellphone jammers in state prisons. A coalition of state attorneys general are pressing for these laws to counter federal laws that presently prohibit anyone except federal … Read the rest
