On Feb 10, 2025 a meeting was held by people and members of groups who support or have signed on to PAPA (People Against Prison Abuse). This was our fifth meeting. At that meeting several things were decided:
First, we
… Read the restOn Jan 28, 2025 three guards at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Center were reported as having been criminally charged for violent assaults on prisoners. (1) Greensville is one of Va’s predominantly Black-staffed prisons that houses medium security level prisoners. Thanks to
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giving “Hail Hitler” salutes
protecting cops shooting Blacks in backs
modern day jackboots
Donald the Nazi
studies Mein Kampf
fascist rule consolidated
the cards all Trump’s
one man hegemony
return to feudal rule
Black entertainers inaugurate him
idiot
When I was a child my father demanded
recite Kipling’s poem “If”
he never mentioned Rudyard was a bigot
I found out only because I sniffed
around in his collection of poems
beyond my father’s plans
discovered the ripening he
oh great pretenders
you act as though
the things you do
you do not know
when history shows
your world was built
on lands and wealth stolen
islands of gold
surrounded by oceans
of blood and bones
from people slaughtered
Chadwick Dotson has been the director of Virginia’s prison system since September 2023.
Before this appointment, he was a chief judge in the Circuit Court for Wise County, Va. He was also a past prosecuting attorney and dean of students
… Read the restTomeka Wallace is the mother of Demetrius Wallace, one of several Black men who set themselves on fire in latter 2024 at Virginia’s notorious Red Onion State Prison, in desperate response to racist abuses at the prison.
She has witnessed
… Read the restThe government’s use of euphemisms is simply a sly way of lying. When a cop murders a defenseless child of color in cold blood, shooting him in the back, police departments call it a “police involved shooting.” This serves to
… Read the restOn December 15, 2024, Dwight Jackson, a Black man confined at Keen Mountain, yet another remote Virginia prison, was electrocuted by guards with a 50,000 volt electric shock belt for fun.
The shocking assault happened while Dwight was being transported
… Read the restThe name Ekong Eshiet has become widely known in the media, after he and numerous other prisoners set themselves on fire in desperate efforts to be transferred away from the racist abuses at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison.
After a
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