Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: Recent Memo to Red Onion State Prisoners Held In Solitary Confinement

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Recent Memo to Red Onion State Prisoners Held In Solitary Confinement



Whats Funny about this is. prisoners held in Solitary Confinement were not allowed to take out any media devices, to begin with. Before a prisoner in solitary confinement steps out of the cell, there is a total strip search meaning the prisoner is completely naked, turns around, squats, coughs, buttocks cavity search, penis and testicles lifted, arms lifted mouth opened -- this is what is done before prisoners in solitary confinement step out of the cell.

On the question of stocking caps, stocking caps (bright hunter orange) are worn to keep heads protected against the elements.

What I think is the real target of this memo/revision: is, prisoners, wearing watches for the 2 hours outside exercise, in order to keep up and ensure that prison guards comply with the 2 hours mandate for prisoners held in solitary confinement.

The context of this is, prisoners in solitary confinement at Red Onion, are taken out of the cell by 2 prison guards holding the prisoner who is shackled and handcuffed behind the back to a cage that isn't unlike a dog shelter cage    and the outside exercise given by Red Onion to prisoners it detains in solitary confinement for years and decades is a bare cage to simply walk around. So practically a prisoner leaves one cage he could only walk around in for another he can only walk around in.





William Thorpe I'm In Solitary Confinement at Red Onion State Prison

1 comment :

Coalition for Justice said...

This is a form of torture. Amnesty International has long recognized that solitary confinement in federal super-maximum security prisons amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is in violation of international law. These cages are prisons within prisons. Very disturbing account.