On Feb 10, 2025 a meeting was held by people and members of groups who support or have signed on to PAPA (People Against Prison Abuse). This was our fifth meeting. At that meeting several things were decided:
First, we
… Read the restOn Jan 28, 2025 three guards at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Center were reported as having been criminally charged for violent assaults on prisoners. (1) Greensville is one of Va’s predominantly Black-staffed prisons that houses medium security level prisoners. Thanks to
… Read the restOn December 15, 2024, Dwight Jackson, a Black man confined at Keen Mountain, yet another remote Virginia prison, was electrocuted by guards with a 50,000 volt electric shock belt for fun.
The shocking assault happened while Dwight was being transported
… Read the restThe name Ekong Eshiet has become widely known in the media, after he and numerous other prisoners set themselves on fire in desperate efforts to be transferred away from the racist abuses at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison.
After a
… Read the restThere is a rally to shut down Virginia’s Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons set to take place in downtown Richmond, Virginia at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square on Jan 8, 2025 from 2-3pm.
This rally comes in
… Read the restI’ve been writing articles on U.S. prison abuses for decades – since 2004. My first report was about racism and mistreatment at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, titled “Red Onion State Prison, An Exposé: Racism and Abuse Equals Kind and
… Read the restSeveral things prison officials and my peers know about me is I’m not passive, I don’t frighten and I don’t back down.
I’ve been imprisoned for almost 35 years. Throughout that time I’ve physically warred and litigated against, and publicized
… Read the restWalter Kissee is confined to a wheelchair. He can’t walk. His disability was caused by having a huge chunk of his leg ripped out by a prison attack dog on April 13, 2024 at Virginia’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center.
… Read the restOn Jan 17, 2025 I spoke with Phil Wilayto, the editor of the Virginia Defender newspaper. As many know, Phil supported and endorsed the call to shut down Virginia’s remote and notoriously racist and abusive super maximum security prisons, Red
… Read the restLet me paint a picture for you. In this case art doesn’t merely imitate reality, it captures it.
In Va, prisoners are paid pennies per hour to perform labor that keeps its prisons operating which
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