(WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Corrections’ director released a statement Wednesday following the incident with the six inmates intentionally burned themselves at Red Onion State Prison.

In the messages, which the nonprofit news organization published Wednesday, Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while an ...

In the messages, which the nonprofit news organization published Wednesday, Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while an assistant ...

After half a dozen men at Red Onion State Prison set themselves on fire, the Virginia Department of Corrections asked incarcerated people to sign an agreement that offers incentives—such as a fish fry ...

The report concluded that such crimes were part of state policy and amounted to crimes ... into a room described in earlier diagrams. The prison layout matched those sketches, including two ...

An expert on prison design said the repeat incidents point to shortcomings in the physical layout of the prisons ... two had only recently been sent to state prison and were on suicide watch ...

Red Onion State Prison in Wise County, Va., in 1997.

Del. Tony Wilt, R-Harrisonburg, said he was concerned that the bill could “set inmates up” for another incident like what happened last year at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, where six inmates ...

Tony Wilt, R-Harrisonburg. He recently raised concerns about potential misuse. Wilt referenced incidents at Red Onion State Prison where inmates reportedly tampered with electrical outlets to harm ...

Roughly two months after Virginia’s Department of Corrections confirmed that six inmates at Red Onion State Prison had burned themselves by tampering with electrical outlets, advocates renewed calls ...

A state spokesperson confirmed six men at Red Onion State Prison in Western Virginia used “improvised devices” to give themselves electrical burns. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Nov 26, 2024 ...