Officials at Red Onion State Prison say claims about inmates setting themselves on fire are false. Meanwhile advocates are ...

Red Onion State Prison in Wise County is gaining attention after inmates reportedly set themselves on fire, after saying they ...

Black inmates, protesting racism and intolerable conditions at Red Onion State Prison, are taking to burning themselves to ...

At least six inmates at Red Onion State Prison in western Virginia have allegedly burned themselves in protest of what they ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections' director released a statement Wednesday following the incident with the six inmates ...

At least six incarcerated people have burned themselves at western Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, the Virginia Department ...

The first of the two identical super-maximum security facilities to come on line, Red Onion State Prison, located in remote Wise County, began accepting inmates in August 1998 and currently holds ...

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.

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Warning: This story contains depictions of self-harm. Six people have burned themselves at Virginia’s infamous supermax Red ...

Since opening in April 1999, it has been a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections, and is identical to the Red Onion State Prison near Pound. The prison was built for over $70 million.

Earlier this month, the PW Perspective reported on a petition by Concerned Citizens and Community Action Network to address ...