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At Virginia’s Supermax Prisons, Isolation and Abuse Persist Despite Reforms
Red Onion State Prison, a supermax complex in the southwest corner of Virginia near the Kentucky border, has long had a reputation as one of the harshest prisons in the nation. So when in 2011 the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) announced it was initiating major reforms at Red Onion and nearby Wallens Ridge State Prison, […]
Katie Rose Quandt and Jack Denton