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Red Onion was built in 1998 as the state’s first “super-max” prison to house the system’s most dangerous inmates. It held roughly 850 inmates last year.

Red Onion State Prison is a supermax prison in Wise County. In recent months, concerns about conditions at the facility resurfaced following reports of six inmates burning themselves in November.

Red Onion resident Ekong Eshiet said in anaudio recordingreleased by Prison Radio, an organization that amplifies the voices of incarcerated people, that he is one of the inmates who burned himself.

Hall added that these were “just his thoughts on how to prevent this kind of behavior.” Red Onion State Prison, seen in July 1997, is in Wise County. Brown & Root Building Co.

Virginia’s top investigatory body is turning its attention to Red Onion State Prison after alarming reports of self-harm and poor conditions at the supermax facility in Wise County. Andrea ...

Red Onion State Prison is a supermax facility that houses about 775 inmates. The facility was back in the spotlight, following recent reports that six inmates had burned themselves in an attempt ...

The state’s top prison official criticized reports that the self-burnings at Red Onion State Prison, which has had a history of complaints, were in protest of poor conditions.