Stop the torture of Rashid for exposing prisoners’ self-immolation

Stop the torture of Rashid for exposing prisoners’ self-immolation

Red Onion and Wallens Ridge prisons were built in the remote mountains of Virginia, where white guards’ treatment of Black prisoners is notoriously cruel and never punished. Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a widely respected political prisoner, has been courageously reporting the abuse and prisoners’ responses, including self-immolation, and has so far survived the consequences. Support for him is growing, but more is needed. by Ana Edwards and Phil Wil…