I’ve been writing articles on U.S. prison abuses for decades – since 2004. My first report was about racism and mistreatment at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, titled “Red Onion State Prison, An Exposé: Racism and Abuse Equals Kind and … Read the rest
I love my mother
you raped her
hunted her children
stalked and killed them
connived to steal them
scattered her seeds
to the four winds
made them forget
their familial bonds
so now there’s been
generations
of wars between her … Read the rest
I am not me
I am We
without which
I cannot be
cannot be free
even if I could go
wherever I desired to be
a warrior’s life
belongs to the people
individualism is evil
feeble
not equal
with an … Read the rest
I approach the question gravely,
Do we abolish prisons or prison slavery?
As long as class struggle exists,
There will always be this:
Military police and prisons,
Eliminating either is a far off vision
All three form the basis of … Read the rest
oh tell me
please mama
what ever happened
to Barack Obama?
they said he was
so hated
cuz he’d see us
liberated
well there’s still no money
in your purse
and since he was in office
things got worse
the … Read the rest
free Huey!
a demand that sparked
a movement
the needle
we moved it
closer
to freedom
Huey P. we freed him
but afterward lost steam
which means
another deferred dream
but the vision
ain’t dead
instead
we gotta
revive what … Read the rest
Several things prison officials and my peers know about me is I’m not passive, I don’t frighten and I don’t back down.
I’ve been imprisoned for almost 35 years. Throughout that time I’ve physically warred and litigated against, and publicized … Read the rest
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
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