The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state ... They decided to protest long-term solitary confinement by organizing a hunger strike. It would become the ...

A new lawsuit launched by 21 of the 37 convicts whose death sentences were controversially commuted by President Biden at the ...

Johnson says the burnings and his experience show why Red Onion State Prison, Virginia’s only supermax prison ... excessive stays in solitary confinement and officers provoking violent dog ...

QUITE how one manages to fashion two blades out of a metal baking tray is anyone’s guess. But that’s exactly what convicted ...

Andry Jose Hernandez Romero, 31, was detained at the Mexico-US border last year when he requested entry to attend a ...

It’s a supermax facility that houses several ... Allegations include physical abuse, medical neglect, excessive solitary confinement and dog attacks. In an interview with WDBJ7, Western Regional ...

Red Onion State Prison is a supermax facility that houses about ... “We heard a lot today about so-called long-term solitary confinement. There’s a reason that they’re using that word.

For nearly six years, Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement. In 2019, Virginia’s prison system was sued in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...