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Red Onion State Prison officials want to keep what happens in these dens of racism and corruption secret and go to every extreme to silence those who aim to expose them.
Police and guard abuse is not and has never been about a few bad apples doing wrong. The entire legal system is structured to enable and protect abusers so they suffer no consequences for their offenses.
After I was moved to solitary, numerous officials admitted this incident was a premeditated set up. I was also told that the entire ploy was to create a pretext to have me emergency transferred to the notoriously abusive and racist Virginia prisons Red Onion or Wallens Ridge.
Print Merli Albizures gripped a megaphone in late April, looked at the 80-plus people in front of her at Biancini Park in Bell, and felt a jolt of déjà vu. In 2010, she had joined other residents in the small, working-class town to revolt against officials and politicians that bled city coffers dry. There were rallies and speeches and a recall that ousted most of the City Council and brought stability and a sense of hope for better days. The scandal inspired community activists nationwide to feel that they, too, had a chance to take down entrenched politicos. Albizures remains proud of wha...
Gas Abuses In Indiana Prisons: The Cases Of Marshawn Weems Prison Abuse of Tear Gas Tear gas, inside the confined spaces of prisons, takes on a particular abusive effect and lethality. It chokes off the air and lingers for hours if no exhaust system is used to remove it. It clings to surfaces for days, if sprayed areas aren’t decontaminated. To top it off, the weapon is lethal in itself. As I’ve written before1, this weapon, along with its sister chemical weapons like mustard gas, chlorine gas, and others, was designed and used during World War l, and subsequently banned from battlefields...