I have had the displeasure of witnessing official designs to murder by medical neglect the prisoner housed in the cell next to me here at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP). His name is Charles Coleman #1399215.
Charles, a 35 year … Read the rest
The reality of death by medical neglect in the Virginia prison system became all too real to me when I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (sic!) [VDOC] in 2021. I had just spent a decade … Read the rest
On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history of racism and abuse.
Red Onion’s notoriety goes back to when the prison first opened, with a 1999 report by Human … Read the rest
Information received Nov. 7, 2023 from Rashid:
On the evening of October 18, 2023 I was ordered to pack my belongings to be moved to another cell here at Sussex 1 State Prison. The cell, number 13, in the D-block of 3 building had been vacant … Read the rest
I was awakened early this morning (just after 3am) to the sounds of several men in the solitary confinement unit here at Sussex 1 State Prison (S1SP) being rounded up for transfer. Because of the early hours I knew they … Read the rest
On June 30, 2023 I was thrown in solitary confinement here at Virginia’s Sussex
1 State Prison under the guise of being under investigation by prison officials.
I was denied all my property and the warden here devised to … Read the rest
I have been held in an empty cell and without any property or working lights since June 30, 2023.
The initial pretext for this abuse here at Virginia’s Sussex 1 State Prison (S1SP) was that I was under investigation … Read the rest
I have been going out daily since early April 2023 for radiation treatment at the Medical College of Virginia – a total of 40 treatments – which is ongoing. On 6-29-23 upon returning to the prison from the hospital I … Read the rest
It’s been exactly a year and a half since Virginia prison officials had clinical evidence from PSA blood tests that I have prostate cancer and ten months since my cancer was definitively diagnosed by biopsy at the … Read the rest
