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Kevin Rashid Johnson, political prisoners, prisoners - May 16, 2025

VIRGINIA BREAKS A LEG TO TRANSFER ME OUT OF STATE (2025) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

[Originally posted to RashidMOD.com on May 15, 2025.] On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department. Upon reporting to property I was dressed out for a transportation run, loaded onto a steel-lined transport van, driven to an airfield and loaded onto a prison airplane. I was promptly flown to South Carolina, where we were met by a convoy of transport officials including local cops and prison officials. From this point things...

Virginia Prisoners Hunger Strike at Red Onion State Prison

On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in the state, incarcerated people are still subjected to this brutal practice which has been renamed “restorative housing” since July 1, 2023 when measures were passed to limit its use in the state. Leading these prisoners in this effort is longtime prison activist, revolutionary writer and artist, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. Rashid has stated that no one will take any food at...

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Kevin Rashid Johnson - July 6, 2022

Kevin "Rashid" Johnson: My Cancer Diagnosis and the Disease of Denied Prison Medical Care, & Call for Action

On July 1, 2022 I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center (NCC) that I had tested positive for prostate cancer. This diagnosis came after I had been left for months by NCC medical staff with known blood test results showing that my PSA (prostate specific analysis) levels were extremely high, evidencing likely prostate-related illness. This delay in follow-up testing and treatment left the cancer to develop or advance beyond stages at which it might have been less serious. FIRST SIGNS My PSA levels were first tested on October 8, 2021, at which...

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