This is Sean Galloway, ex-Bay. C h i i i r p. I’m calling from River North Correctional Prison in Western Virginia, Western Region, Virginia, on 11/17/ 2025. An officer was killed here by the name of J.L. Hall. He was stabbed to death by another offender named Jay Russell. Apparently, this happened because of the frustration that prisoners are having based on the treatment and the ill treatment of prisoners here in River North Correctional Prison. But this is going on all over the state of Virginia in this moment, but right now, we are being locked down 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except for the times that they are allotting us to come out for 30 minutes now for showers and phone calls. When this happened, we were only coming out 10 minutes a week out of the cell. Then they started allotting us 30 minutes a week out of the cell.
If you listen, you can hear them telling us to lock down, now, which is bananas, because we’ve only been out here 15 minutes. But the thing is, this is getting crazy, like somebody has to hear us and hear our story. They are now letting us out for 30 minutes a day, every other day. Right now they’re telling me to lock down. They literally are shooting us. They have guns with- that shoot chemical agents, which are, like, it’s a war in there. Like, I don’t understand how this is happening. I don’t understand how nobody is paying attention, but the world needs to know that this is what’s going on.
So, I want to call again, but they’re only letting us out at six or seven o’clock in the morning, and we’re on Eastern Standard Time when California is on Pacific Standard Time. So, at the end of the day, like this may never happen again, but my story will come to you as much as I can. I do appreciate you. Listen, the chirp is the word of the day. It’s the call of the wild to let you know that we are good in here. As long as we chirping, we all right, but if we stop chirping, just know what it is. I love you, Mo. Thank y’all. C h i i i r p.
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