On Jan 17, 2025 I spoke with Phil Wilayto, the editor of the Virginia Defender newspaper. As many know, Phil supported and endorsed the call to shut down Virginia’s remote and notoriously racist and abusive super maximum security prisons, Red … Read the rest
When you combine an attention-seeking and drama-prone white woman who has a racist sense of entitlement over people of color with a hip shooting occupation that routinely captures, beats and lynches people of color, you have a distressing combination. Indeed … Read the rest
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
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
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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
LIES ABOUT DOG ATTACKS
In an Aug 1, 2021 article about lawsuits brought by Virginia prisoners who had been mauled by prison attack dogs, a prison spokesperson was cited as saying, “canine units are used solely for purposes of detecting … Read the rest