Now, legislators and advocacy groups are speaking out, and state officials are pushing back. Red Onion State Prison is in Wise County. It’s a supermax facility that houses several hundred inmates.

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.

“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 ...

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.

Red Onion State Prison, seen in July 1997, is in Pound in Wise County. Virginia Department of Corrections Director Chadwick Dotson in late November denied reports of prisoners “self-immolating ...

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 ...

Since September, at least six men attempted to set themselves on fire to call out what they say are inhumane conditions at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. IE 11 is not supported.

Red Onion State Prison in Wise County is gaining attention after inmates reportedly set themselves on fire, after saying they suffered from inhumane treatment. Skip to content.