Why Are Prisoners Setting Themselves on Fire at Red Onion?
September 5, 2025
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13:23Now PlayingWhy Are Prisoners Setting Themselves on Fire at Red Onion?
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as posted by the channelRed Onion State Prison: where six men set themselves on fire as a desperate form of protest.
Since 1998, watchdog groups have documented shotgun attacks, electroshock torture, pervasive racism, and naked force-feedings in the Virginia prison — but families of the incarcerated men report little has changed.
Now activists are demanding Red Onion be shut down and its leaders held accountable. Will the state keep looking away?
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