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Virginia Prisoners Hunger Strike at Red Onion State Prison
On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginiaβs 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 βrestorative housingβ since July 1, 2023 when measures were passed to limit its use in the state.Β Β Leading these prisoners in this effort is longtime prison activist, revolutionary writer and artist, Kevin βRashidβ Johnson. Rashid has stated that no one will take any food at...
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 Virginiaβs 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. Β FIRST SIGNS My PSA levels were first tested on October 8, 2021, at which...
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