SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS TO SUICIDE AND PSYCHOSIS (2025)
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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I recently wrote about the barbaric conditions in South Carolina’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”). [1] I want now to give … Read the rest
THE NAZIFICATION OF AMERIKA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Amerika is this what you wanted
A neo-Nazi in the white house,
Spewing imperial racist rhetoric
out both sides of his lying white mouth?
No pretending this isn’t fascism
Can’t say … Read the rest
LOST LIVES BETWEEN TEXAS AND GAZA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
The Texas floods
were a disaster
The slaughter in Gaza is deliberate
ongoing, much faster
Between Palestine
and the U.S.
Color, nationality and religion
makes their lives worth less… Read the rest
REFLECTIONS ON THE MOVIE “BLINK TWICE” (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Reflecting on the movie
“Blink Twice”
A rich white male rape scene
made a paradise
For the victims of this
wicked scheme
Had the women believing
they were living … Read the rest
How does your celebration relate to me?
Confined in a concrete box—can’t hear, can’t see
My life is solitary
How for me is this day honorary?
Or let’s go back to its origin days…
As your forefathers proclaimed freedom, mine … Read the rest
Rashid was interviewed by James K. Anderson, a member of the IWW Freelance Journalist Union, and the September 2016 prison work strikes against prison slavery. This interview can be read on this website (part one and part two), … Read the rest
Mirrored from https://bit.ly/rashid-may-phone-zap
Updated May 21 2025 – Protect Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson (VADOC # 1007485, now SCDOC # 397279) is an internationally cited prison-journalist. In Fall 2024 he … Read the rest
SUMMARY: Rashid has been thrown in solitary confinement in South Carolina again in retaliation for our phone/email campaign supporting him, and he is restricted to 2 handwritten letters per month (no phone/email access). He has restarted his hunger strike and … Read the rest
On May 24, 2025 a second rally will be held in downtown Richmond, Virginia against abuses in the state’s remote prisons.
We are calling to shut down the state’s two supermax prisons Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, notorious for racism … Read the rest
On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department.
Upon reporting to … Read the rest
