During November 2025, a transgender prisoner, Michael Hailey aka Lilith, was the victim of yet another official lynching in Virginia’s remote prisons.
The murder was covered up until members of UPROAR (Uniting Prisoners’ Relatives Organizing Against Repression) pieced the case … Read the rest
UPROAR (Uniting Prisoners’ Relatives Organizing Against Repression) has launched a campaign to remove attack dogs from Virginia’s prisons. These animals (euphemistically called working dogs and patrol dogs by Va prison officials), have been used as weapons of terror and violence … Read the rest
… Read the rest“The prison-industrial complex is not only a mechanism to convert public tax money into profits for private corporations, it is an essential element of neo-liberal capitalism. It serves two purposes. One to neutralize and contain huge segments of potentially rebellious
On December 11, 2025, the Virginia Mercury followed up on a July 2022 Business Insider investigation and report on abuses of attack dogs inside U.S. prisons, with an article on continued dog attacks in Virginia prisons and the racist targeting … Read the rest
James Glass is a 70-year-old Black disabled man imprisoned at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia’s remote Western region. According to a report from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Mr. Glass suffers from diabetic neuropathy, severe lumbar stenosis, constant nerve pain, and … Read the rest
Dear comrades and supporters of Rashid,
We have an important update: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been returned from South Carolina to Virginia custody.
This is a major victory. Thank you to everyone who called, emailed, shared, and kept pressure on … Read the rest
Aubrey McKay was lynched by a mob of white guards at Virginia’s notorious Wallens Ridge State Prison. He was murdered on June 4, 2025, just a month before his scheduled release. As so many Blacks have suffered across the U.S. … Read the rest
UPROAR came onto the scene in early 2025 as a prisoner support group composed primarily of prisoners’ loved ones and ex-prisoners. The group was founded in the wake of and response to broad media exposure of extreme abuses of people … Read the rest
Deputy Director Joseph W. Walters was elevated to lead the Virginia Department of Corrections. His portfolio has long sat where prison labor, “compliance,” and the grievance maze intersect.
When Governor Abigail Spanberger moved to replace Chadwick Dotson at the Virginia … Read the rest
Since Nov 17, 2025 Virgina’s media has been awash with reports that on that day a guard in the state’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center was stabbed to death by a prisoner. Two other guards were reported as also injured … Read the rest
