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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 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.
Prisoners unduly suffer at Red Onion On May 25, 2022, DeAndre Gordon set himself on fire resulting in third degree burns on his legs within Red Onion State Prison in Wise County, Va.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the homicide of an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison.
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.
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 ...
Internal communications between officials at Red Onion State Prison, published on Wednesday by the news site The Appeal, show that officials mused over the idea of making inmates pay for their own ...
A new state government watchdog says she her office will prioritize an investigation of Red Onion State Prison in southwest Virginia.
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.
At least six incarcerated people have burned themselves at western Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, the Virginia Department of Corrections confirmed Wednesday.
Red Onion State Prison, located in Wise County and minutes from the Virginia-Kentucky border, is the state's first supermax facility.
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