The Virginia legislature created an ombudsman’s office in July 2024, charged with overseeing and investigating the Virginia prison system. Andrea Sapone was appointed as ombudsman that September. The creation of this office was backed by advocacy groups who believed the … Read the rest
Sneaky racism is no longer the order of the day. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement within the Republican party, white supremacy is rearing its ugly head in the open… once … Read the rest
After suffering over 3 months with an abscessed tooth, the infection from which could have spread and proven fatal at any moment, I was finally seen by a private dentist on Oct 17, 2025, where the first step of a … Read the rest
MEMORIALIZING A NEO-NAZI: THE COMMEMORATION OF CHARLIE KIRK (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson For weeks now, the mainstream U.S. media has been awash with coverage and accolades about Charlie Kirk, a racist ultra-right young fascist who was shot to death… Read the rest
THROUGH COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT VIRGINIA OFFICIALS PROMPT PRISONERS TO VIOLENTLY POLICE EACH OTHER (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson If anyone needed further confirmation that Virgina's top officials can't be trusted to safely run the state's prisons, their recently created policy of… Read the rest
Tyrone Perry #307793 is a 46 year old Black man imprisoned in SC's Perry… Read the rest
Correctional (sic!) Institution [PCI]. He's been imprisoned in SC for 20
years. Throughout this time he's endured medical and mental health neglect
while suffering degenerative brain
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS TO SUICIDE AND PSYCHOSIS (2025)
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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I recently wrote about the barbaric conditions in South Carolina’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”). [1] I want now to give … Read the rest
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 rest
On 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 rest
On 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 rest
