Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been
… Read the restOn May 24, 2025 a second rally will be held in downtown Richmond, Virginia against abuses in the state’s remote prisons.
We are calling to shut down the state’s two supermax prisons Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, notorious for racism
… Read the restOn the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department.
Upon reporting to
… Read the restVirginia’s rural prisons came into the spotlight in 2024, after several prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, myself included, went on prolonged hunger strikes protesting abusive conditions there, then a dozen more set themselves on fire in desperate efforts to
… Read the restThe following is the second part of an interview with Kevin “Rashid” Johnson by James K. Anderson a member of the IWW Freelance Journalist Union. The first part was titled, “Striking Back Against Prison Slavery.”
JAMES ANDERSON: In the first
… Read the restTwo of the most widely publicized and vocal prisoners who set themselves on fire during latter 2024 in desperate responses to racism and abuses at Virginia’s notorious Red Onion State Prison have been transferred out of state.
Ekong Eshiet has
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Welcome to InsideOutsideUnity, a project of BP Publishers to expand the political and social knowledge of the incarcerated.
Related to the topic covered in this issue (uses of attack dogs in Virginia prisons), attorneys with
… Read the restIn Oct 2024 the story broke that numerous prisoners at Red Onion State Prison had set themselves on fire in desperate response to racism and abuse at the Virginia prison that has an extensive history of corruption and racism. It
… Read the restEd Mead passed away on Nov 6, 2023 – his 86th birthday. I wanted to write a few words in his memory.
I have never written an obituary, so I hope to do Ed’s memory justice.
The thing is, he
… Read the restFyodor Dostoyevsky was right. Anyone who wants to determine a society’s level of progress only needs to look inside its prisons. This is because prisons are a condensed version of the society that produces them.
Indeed, as the U.S. Supreme
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