September 16, 2025
in may of this year, captives at Wallens Ridge State Prison (near the administrative border between virginia & west virginia) attacked their captors, injuring three guards. six of them were formally charged with 66 (🙄) felonies last month.
another captive has managed to get out an update about the repressive conditions at the prison since then, sharing it with a Maoist prison support organization:
Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, has been on News Nation due to five Corrections Officers being stabbed. But what they haven't said is that three prisoners have been beaten to death since then and one has overdosed. The daily oppression and censorship is at an all-time high. We were forced 80 days without phone or JPay (tablet) usage and writing letters hardly ever make it out past the censors. It is a climate of racism and abuse that permeates here.
(the above site also has a Tor website here)
Found on okmana