VOCAL VIRGINIA PRISONERS WHO SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE ARE TRANSFERRED OUT OF STATE (2025, text)
My name is Ekong Ben Eshiet Jr. (text)
My name is Ekong Ben Eshiet Jr. son of Marsha Pritchett & Ekong Eshiet Sr. Brother of Akon Eshiet, Breon Eshiet, Ben Eshiet, and Aaliyah Eshiet. I am 1 of the several brothers that was… Full Transcript
Shutting Down Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons
In a random survey, Virginia prisoners call for shutting down Red Onion/Wallens Ridge State Prisons. On January 17, 2025, I spoke with Phil Wilayto, the editor of The Virginia Defender newspaper. As many know, Phil… Full Transcript
State Legislature Describes Red Onion As Inhumane
During October 2024 I was able to pierce the veil of secrecy that surrounds Virginia’s remote super max prison, Red Onion State Prison, and the extreme abuses and racism that have plagued the prison since… Full Transcript
A Native American’s View of Virginia’s Red Onion Prison
A Native Americans Views of Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison. This is an exchange featured on [unclear]. During January 2024, I was transferred away from Virginia’s notoriously racist and abusive Red Onion State Prison. after… Full Transcript
Extreme Abuse at Red Onion State Prison
It’s extreme abuse. It’s, I mean, it’s pretty much blatant racism. It’s really, it’s really hard, I guess, for people on the outside to really understand the context of that environment. The culture that comes into… Full Transcript
Interview with Ekong’s Mother (Martha Pritchard)
Before being incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison, June of this year, he was at the Wallens Ridge State Prison. December of 2023, he was in an altercation with another inmate. By the time the… Full Transcript
Propaganda and Red Onion State Prison
The public can’t believe anything Virginia Prison officials tell them. Lies about dog attacks. In an August 1st, 2021, article about two lawsuits filed by Virginia prisoners who had been mauled by prison attack dogs,… Full Transcript
Gang Wars to Race Wars
From gang wars to race wars, officials continue to manufacture gang violence in Virginia prisons. In a 2023 article, I outlined how officials manufactured gangs in Virginia’s remote supermax prisons, Red Onion and Wallens Ridge,… Full Transcript
Why Was My Neighbor Tear Gassed?
Why was my neighbor just tear gassed? It’s November 11, 2024, 10:52am. My neighbor here in Red Onion State Prison, these three solitary confinement cell blocks, was just tear gassed for the most absurd reason,… Full Transcript
Hunger Strike and Self Immolation Update
I started my hunger strike Monday, October 21st. Once everybody refused a breakfast tray, the CO came to my door and said, “Why? Why you messing up the spot? This is a good spot.” He … Full Transcript
Self Immolation in Virginia Prisons
On September 15, 2024, a young African man, Ekong Eshiet and his cellmate Trayvon Brown, set themselves on fire at Virginia’s remote supermax Red Onion State Prison. Ekong suffered third degree burns along his legs… Full Transcript
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.… Full Transcript
Dirty Prison Guards
This is um, Comrade Pitt calling in from Jessup Correctional Institution in the state of Maryland. Peter Kamal Mukuria is the name. My Instagram feed is ig at pittpanther underscore art. So over the course… Full Transcript
Psychological Warfare
Hey, this is Peter Kamal Mukuria, comrade Pitt, calling from Jessup Correctional Resort, naw just kidding, Institution. So I want to leave this commentary on a specific issue, a specific unprofessionalism that is very, very… Full Transcript
Retaliation for litigation: Virginia targets prisoners suing against solitary confinement 
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
An Account of Abuse at Red Onion
The Commissary at Red Onion State Prison
The name of my piece is “The Commissary Red Onion State Prison.” My name is Gerald McNabb, 1-0-8-20-47. On 7/26, 2019, my status in a step-down program at the Red Onion State Prison was upgraded… Full Transcript
Challenging Solitary at Red Onion State Prison
Hi, y’all. Kelvin Casey Canada, calling from Red Onion State Prison. The whole predicate of me calling is to inform the masses about the [unclear] of the A38 policy. This is a policy that is… Full Transcript
Two of the most widely publicized and vocal prisoners who set themselves on fire during latter 2024 in desperate responses to racism and abuses at Virginia’s notorious Red Onion State Prison have been transferred out… Full Transcript