Virginia's juvenile justice director is raising questions about how one legislator obtained information about the facility through youth formerly incarcerated there.

Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

In 2023, the officers were sued by Kymberly Hobbs, whose brother, Charles Givens, was found dead in his cell in February 2022. Givens was severely mentally handicapped.

Several inmates at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison in recent months have been hospitalized for burning themselves, sparking criticism from some state lawmakers of human rights concerns in the ...

Red Onion State Prison is a supermax prison in Wise ... we have a zero-tolerance for inhumane treatment of inmates.” In November, the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus called on Gov.

NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in ...