STATE LEGISLATOR WHO VISITED VIRGINIA’S RED ONION STATE PRISON DESCRIBED CONDITIONS AS INHUMANE (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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A CALL TO ORGANIZE A PRISONER SUPPORT NETWORK COMPOSED OF PRISONERS’ LOVED ONES – PAPA (PEOPLE AGAINST PRISON ABUSE) (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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
THE PUBLIC CAN’T BELIEVE ANYTHING VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS TELL THEM – PART ONE (2024) By Kevin “Rashid ” Johnson
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
PRISONERS TREATED WORSE THAN DOGS (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
On Apr 2, 2024, at Virginia’s Sussex 1 State Prison, Rivan, a prison attack dog, was killed. He was allegedly stabbed to death by a Latino prisoner who the dog had been sicced on by guards.
In the days that … Read the rest
COURAGEOUS VIRGINIA GUARDS BEAT CRIPPLED PRISONERS (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Walter Kissee is confined to a wheelchair. He can’t walk. His disability was caused by having a huge chunk of his leg ripped out by a prison attack dog on April 13, 2024 at Virginia’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center. … Read the rest
STATEMENT OF DEMETRIUS WALLACE ON EXPERIENCES WITH RACISM, NEGLECT, RETALIATION AND ABUSE AT RED ONION STATE PRISON (2024)
“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
WHY WAS MY NEIGHBOR JUST GASSED? (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
It’s Nov 11, 2024, 10:52 am. My neighbor here at Red Onion State Prison’s D-3 solitary confinement cellblock was just tear gassed for the most absurd reason. Which is typical here, where white guards don’t use force because they NEED … Read the rest
VIRGINIA OFFICIALS RESPOND TO PRISON HUNGER STRIKE BY TORTURING STRIKERS (2024) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
PROTESTING ILLEGAL ABUSES
On March 23, 2023 the Virginia legislature passed a new law restricting the use and duration of solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. (1) This law was enacted in response to years of public protest against Virginia’s … Read the rest
BEATING TIME: RACIST ABUSE CONTINUES AT RED ONION STATE PRISON (2023) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Since returning to Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison (ROSP) on October 30, 2023, I have witnessed an environment where racist abuses continue, and little has changed in this regard since the earliest days of the prison’s history when it earned … Read the rest
Racist Politics in Virginia: Virginia’s Prisons Operate Under An Apartheid System (2024), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Minority/Majority Control
Under racist systems of control the oppressed are either the minority or the majority. Where they are the minority, as were Blacks in Amerika under chattel slavery and Jim Crow, the oppressor race is armed and mobilized to … Read the rest