Imprisoned individuals are setting themselves on hearth at a US jail. At Purple Onion State Jail in Virginia, we look at the racism and abuse that go away them feeling they don’t have any different option to protest. Are these points remoted to Purple Onion, or do they replicate a deeper, systemic downside inside US prisons?
UPDATE: On Wednesday, November twenty seventh, the Virginia Division of Corrections shared an announcement with The Take outlining their account of what occurred to the prisoners:
“In current months, six inmates at Purple Onion State Jail have burned themselves utilizing improvised units that had been created by tampering with electrical shops. To be clear, these inmates didn’t set themselves on hearth or self-immolate, as some reviews have ludicrously recommended. A number of the inmates had been handled for burns on the Division’s safe medical facility on the VCU Medical Heart and cleared to return to the ability, whereas others didn’t require outdoors medical remedy. All six inmates have been referred to psychological well being workers for remedy, and it needs to be famous that a number of of those inmates have a historical past of participating in self-harm.”
On this episode:
– Noel Hanrahan, authorized director for Redwood Justice Fund and co-director of Jail Radio
Episode credit:
This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sonia Bhagat, and Ashish Malhotra with Sarí el-Khalili, Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Duha Mosaad, Khaled Soltan, Hagir Saleh, Cole Van Miltenburg, and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s govt producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
