Updates and announcements for December 10, 2024. These primarily relate to the crisis at Red Onion Supermax.
Updates and Announcements: Crisis at Red Onion
The Virginia Defender
Established in 2005 as The Richmond Defender, The Virginia Defender is a free community newspaper, published quarterly for the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. Print distribution is currently 12,000 and statewide. The online publication launched in Summer 2020.
Crisis at Red Onion Meeting Recording
On December 7th, 2024, a community meeting sponsored by the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality was held in Richmond, Virginia, in response to the self-immolation by men held at Red Onion State Prison. More than 100 people attended. The meeting was recorded and can be viewed via Facebook.
Crisis at Red Onion: How you can help
Please join us on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2-4:30pm at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church (1720 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223) for the first public expression of concern about the ongoing crisis at […]
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Letters to the Editor: 22 Years & Counting In Prison For A Non-Murder Conviction!!
A letter from Shaka Shakur, incarcerated at Buckingham Correctional Center, regarding his case.
Henrico thrift shop offers support & PATH to new lives for ex-prisoners
The storefront at 6 East Nine Mile Road in eastern Henrico’s Highland Springs neighborhood used to house a church ministry. Now it’s many things: a thrift shop, moving company, for a while a furniture renovator.
But most importantly, it’s a community where formerly incarcerated people can find a place to rebuild their lives.
Split verdict an important victory in free speech trial of Uhuru 3
In a free speech case that has attracted national media attention, the longtime activists known as the Uhuru 3 were acquitted Sept. 12 in Tampa, Fla., of acting as agents of a foreign government, but found guilty of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents.
The Virginia Defender 