{"id":3844,"date":"2025-09-04T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:40:24","slug":"august-28-2025-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3844","title":{"rendered":"August 28, 2025 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson is experiencing yet another round of deliberately\ndenied medical\/dental treatment at the hands of prison officials, this time\nfor an abscessed tooth, while held against his will under interstate\ncompact in a prison system outside of Virginia, his home state. Rashid was\ntransferred to SC on May 1, 2025, and immediately thrown in solitary\nconfinement, although he was housed in general population in Virginia's\nKeen Mountain prison just before his transfer. In SC he has been stripped\nof all property and his communication lines have been cut. He is not\nallowed to possess or use the prison tablets allowed all other SC prisoners\nand is banned from telephone use. This occurred in specific response to him\nwriting an article about his transfer to and treatment in SC which he sent\nout on May 14, 2025. After outside people and the media complained to SC\nprison officials about his treatment, he was threatened to have all his\ncommunication lines cut by a special agent with the SC prison system's\nOffice of the Inspector General, Jamie Fergeli, if he didn't tell outside\npeople and media to stop contacting the prison system. Two days after these\nthreats were made, Rashid was moved to a special non-communication solitary\nwing where he was banned from tablet and phone use. He has been banned ever\nsince. He is being forced to seek and pay himself for dental treatment,\nwhich has only been allowed because of outside support and complaints.\n\nHis outside dental appointments are pending. His incoming and outgoing\nmail, general and legal, has been repeatedly intercepted and denied\ndelivery by SC prison officials, in particular by a mailroom clerk, Tamara\nConwell, acting in collaboration with the prison system's central\nheadquarters administration. He has had efforts to communicate with\nattorneys by mail and phone repeatedly frustrated. SC officials in\ncollaboration with Va officials have been acting to hold him incommunicado,\nin blatant retaliation for and to prevent his continued efforts to\npublicize abuses of himself and others in U.S. prisons. Rashid has been\nunable since leaving Va to write and publish any but a tiny number of\narticles, which is the very purpose and intent of his confinement and\ntreatment in SC, after his involvement in gaining widespread media and\npublic attention to abuses in Va's remote supermax prisons, Red Onion and\nWallens Ridge State prison, leading up to and prompting his transfer to SC.\nThese treatments, however, have not and will not deter him.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin &#8220;Rashid&#8221; Johnson is experiencing yet another round of deliberately denied medical\/dental treatment at the hands of prison officials, this time for an abscessed tooth, while held against his will under interstate compact in a prison system outside of Virginia, his home state. 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