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SPOTLIGHT ON VIRGINIA PRISONS: WHY VIRGINIA’S REMOTE PRISONS NEED TO BE PUBLICLY EXPOSED AND CLOSED (2024) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
CULTIVATING SECRECY IN VA PRISONS
Virginia officials have always tried to hide what happens inside their prisons from the public. Especially the abuse. 50 years ago in a lawsuit against inhumane conditions at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond, Va,
… Read the restBlue Lies Matter: How Courts Protect Abusive Cops and Prison Guards (2023) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
A Cop Violates Your Rights and Home
Consider this: In the dead of night while you and your kids are sleeping in bed, a uniformed cop breaks out your back window, crawls inside, creeps into your kids’ room and when
… Read the restMilitarized Virginia Prison Guards Believe Amerika Was Fighting Space Aliens In Afghanistan (2023) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
I had an experience that illustrated for me just how psychotic these right-wing military types are. The ones who work in rural prisons and police forces in particular. The fearful thing about all this is that these nuts are armed
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On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in
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There was much fanfare about a new Virginia law that went into effect on Mach 23, 2023 that set specific limits on the use of solitary confinement in Virginia prisons. (1) Long before this law was enacted Va prison officials
… Read the restBack to Red Onion State Prison — The Site of Entrenched Racism and Past Abuse (2023) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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:
- He was gassed in his solitary cell at Sussex 1
- He was shackled in handcuffs that were much too tight and painful. Guards ignored that he has medical orders for larger
SUSSEX 1 STATE PRISON OFFICIALS PLANT A STREET WEAPON IN A VACANT CELL THEN MOVE ME INTO IT (2023) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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 restThe Racist Politics of Confinement in Virginia’s High Security Prisons, by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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
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