Black Men Incarcerated In Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison Reportedly Set Themselves On Fire Amid Documented Abuse Behind Bars
Source: Photo by Sam Scholes / Getty At Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, where 12 Black prisoners reportedly set themselves on fire in a terrible two-week span this fall, attorney Miriam Nemeth was likely horrified — but probably not shocked. Speaking with truthout.org in February, Nemeth said the only water her client – Kevin Rashid Johnson, 53, who is also a journalist confined at Red Onion who underwent a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike at the beginning […]