Virginia's First Supermaximum Security Prison Virginia's First Supermaximum Security Prison: Red Onion State Prison was the first of two supermaximum security prisons to open in Virginia in the past year. Intended to hold the state's most dangerous inmates, Red Onion -- and its twin, Wallens Ridge State prison -- restrict inmate movement and acti (Prison) http://www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/onion.htm
Red Onion State Prison Red Onion State Prison: Super-Maximum Prison in Virginia. "The day I arrived I was told that I was at Red Onion now and if I act up they would kill me and there was nothing anyone could or would do about it." (Prison) http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/redonion/
The Fortune Society The Fortune Society: Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, the society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. Helps ex-offenders and at-risk youth break the cycle (Prison) http://www.fortunesociety.org
PrisonZone PrisonZone: Authentic prison photos and prison art. (Prison) http://www.prisonzone.com
The Prison Law Page The Prison Law Page: Prisons and prison law: including articles, case updates, a California prison primer and links on the death penalty and justice issues. (Prison) http://www.prisonwall.org/
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants: Crime reduction through reform of the criminal justice system in America. CURE (Prison) http://www.curenational.org
Frontline Primer Frontline Primer: How the "Drug War" has led to numerous imprisonments with little or no evidence except from "snitches," reducing their own sentences by fingering innocent (often black) people. (Prison) http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/snitch/primer
Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison: Native Web's views on spiritual freedom in U.S. prison (Prison) http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/trapp/
Texas Prison Labor Union Texas Prison Labor Union: The primary directives of the union are aimed at reform in the area of prison labor and expose human rights abuses that are common to the Texas Prison Complex. (Prison) http://www.geocities.com/prison_hell
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Information: This category is for documents, allegations, or issues of human rights abuses in U.S. Prisons.
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