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
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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 restI 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
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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
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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 restI 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
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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
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As those who have been following my situation of denied cancer treatment know, Virginia prison officials have known from blood tests taken over a year ago that I have had prostate cancer at least
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In 2011 the United Nations declared solitary confinement to be torture and that it should not be used for longer than two weeks. The next year I was transferred out of state after spending 18 years
