Summary
Incarcerated individuals at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison have reportedly burned themselves in protest of alleged inhumane conditions, including racial abuse, excessive solitary confinement, and neglect.
The Virginia Department of Corrections confirmed six incidents but denied reports of self-immolation, while others claim 12 men were injured.
Protesters and advocacy groups, including the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, demand an independent investigation, citing reports of maggot-infested food, physical abuse, and poor medical care.
Incarcerated journalist Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who exposed the protests, was placed in solitary confinement, allegedly as retaliation.
It’s telling that I haven’t seen a single US-based news source promoting this story.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/inmates-red-onion-state-prison-sustain-self-inflicted-burns-protest-rcna182013
https://www.wric.com/news/taking-action/red-onion-state-prison-officials-say-no-inmates-set-themselves-on-fire/
https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/11/27/concerns-raised-about-red-onion-state-prison/
https://wset.com/news/local/virginia-inmates-burned-red-onion-supermax-department-corrections-improvised-electric-devices-wise-county-legislative-black-caucus-treatment-abuse-racism-claims-mental-health-denied-detention-center
I can keep going. The only thing it’s telling is about where you personally get your news.
He’s kind of right, though. The story originally broke on October 18, and look at the dates of the links from your news articles. It’s all end of November. So it took them over a month to get on it.
It should have been national news on every tv station as it happened, not a small article a month later. Especially since we have a 24-hour news cycle.
In late October the national news was very busy reporting on the major election which was just a few weeks away.
and the interplay of race and our carceral system of torture were absolutely things to be voting on and about. de-emphasizing the importance of these things is a form of conservative propaganda, one that our media outlets engage with constantly. while i think this poster sucks for some other reasons, i do think they’ve found at least part of a truffle here. our media outlets don’t say enough that our prison system is horrible, that our legal system is more effective at hurting black people than it is at helping anyone, and that everything is both political and propaganda. figuring out why is easy. it’s profitable for them
I didn’t say nobody wrote an article about it, I said nobody promoted it, it’s not on anyone’s front page, nor was it included in the physical edition of my local paper over the last week.
As a Virginian living in the area, it’s all over NPR. Dunno what to tell you.
“No, no, you see, when I said “anyone’s”, I meant the physical edition of national papers and also my local one. State’s biggest newspaper and a shitload of local stations published it? Doesn’t count. Needs to be outside the state. Augusta Free Press? Too small. NBC? Not a physical paper. This is totally what I meant when I said ‘any US-based source promoting this story’. Checkmate, libshits!”
.ml is a plague of intellectual dishonesty.
Edit: of fucking course they’re pro-Assad, lmfao. “A dictatorship indiscriminately attacking civilian areas with sarin gas and then trying to cover it up I can handle, but clearly there’s a cover-up (that I don’t approve of) afoot when not more than one massive national news outlet puts a spotlight on bad conditions in this prison.”
Good job destroying that strawman.
Did the Richmond Times-Dispatch recently relocate to Richmond, British Columbia? I’m confused.
A strawman is when you attack arguments nobody made.
I said “the story received no promotion”. I didn’t see it in the national news section of my local paper, and the national online news didn’t cover it for a month and aren’t even putting it on the front page a month later.
That’s borderline a blackout for something that should be a national shame.
🎵 Makin’ shit up 'til it gets called out 🎵
🎵 Got outlets to scold, gotta move all my goalposts 🎵
Repeating exactly what I said is moving the goalposts?
You said that you haven’t seen a US outlet covering it. I said that they are covering it, and the fact that you haven’t seen it is only due to your personal media consumption habits.
Yes, because I, like most people don’t dig past the front page of online news, and most people don’t even do that much.
This is still a reflection on the relative lack of promotion such a visceral story should receive.
If a tree falls in the woods and alcoholicorn wasn’t there to witness it and his newspaper never reported it, is it fake news?
Why would it be in a Russian newspaper?
lmao