Legislation introduced during the 2024 General Assembly session created an ombudsman position to oversee the Virginia ...

Recent allegations of abuse and mistreatment at Red Onion State Prison are back at the forefront after reports of inmates burning themselves. A state investigation is now one step closer to ...

Red Onion State Prison, seen in July 1997, is in Wise County. Brown & Root Building Co. In response, a supervisor at Red Onion, Dwayne A. Turner, approved of the idea.

First Amendment attorney says the public has 'an interest and perhaps an obligation to understand what's going on in jails and prisons' ...

“People who have been incarcerated at Red Onion State Prison describe being regularly subjected to racial and physical abuse from correctional officers, medical neglect including the withholding ...

WISE COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — An inmate at Red Onion State Prison in Wise County was charged with the aggravated murder of another inmate in 2023. According to a release from the Virginia Department ...

WISE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Extensive lockdowns at Red Onion State Prison are leaving imprisoned loved ones in the dark for days, sometimes weeks at a time.. The Virginia Department of Corrections ...

The Red Onion State Prison is perched on a mountaintop in Wise Country, Va., and is a supermax institution. The cells are 8’x10’ and designed to house the prisoners in isolation for 23 hours a ...

Seven individuals at Red Onion State Prison have been on a hunger strike since Dec. 26, the DOC confirmed. Prison rights groups say they are protesting abuse and continued use of solitary confinement.

Directed by Kristi Jacobson, SOLITARY: INSIDE RED ONION STATE PRISON explores life on both sides of the bars, raising provocative questions about punishment in America today.

Red Onion State Prison inmate Bobby Gleason pleaded guilty to a second prison murder Friday and took another step toward his endgame – to be killed by the commonwealth of Virginia. After he ...