Commentaries

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.… Full Transcript

Gang Wars In Virginia’s Prisons (2024) No Virginia Prison Gangs Before 2004 With the prevalence of youth lumpen organizations (so called street gangs) in Virginia today, it’s hard to believe that there were actually no… Full Transcript

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,… Full Transcript

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… Full Transcript

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson 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)… Full Transcript

by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson I have had the displeasure of witnessing official designs to murder by medical neglect the prisoner housed in the cell next to me here at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP). His… Full Transcript

Greetings. This is Kevin Rashid Johnson. I’m calling from the Virginia prison system here in state prison. I’m calling in to seek some assistance from supporters, comrades. I have, um, you know, an ongoing medical… Full Transcript

By Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson Joe Biden pronounced Amerika stands with Israel that the US supports  genocidal plans is real cuz it still  exists as a land built by  exterminating natives and Afrikans killed by being… Full Transcript

After being held in solitary confinement since June 29, 2023 in unlighted cells, and without needed and entitled personal property, all under the pretext of an investigation, I have been released back to general population… Full Transcript

FROM NO CARE… 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… Full Transcript

Solitary torture in Virginia 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… Full Transcript

By Kevin Rashid JohnsonShawn “Flip” Joyner is a VA prisoner suffering with terminal brain cancer. On August 23,2021, after being rushed to the ER from Nottoway Correctional Center where he was diagnosed with grade 4… Full Transcript

Throughout our childhood we are conditioned to believe that life’s rewards can be found in toys and tokens. As we grow older, these notions of pursuing pacifiers are reinforced commercially; only the toys become bigger,… Full Transcript