December 5, 2025
At a prison facility not far from the (supposedly) New River, a tributary of the Kanawha River: in September, incarcerated people set fires, including to their own bodies, in response to their conditions of captivity. The prison managers respond by locking down the unit where the fires took place, for 2 months. The 2 months pass: one of the jailers, Jeremy Hall, is killed. Repression breeds resistance. (Warden Kevin McCoy is in charge of the prison; Chadwick Dotson is the overseer of all prisons in the “Virginia” colony.)
Some sources: This reformist report; this campaign update on medical oppression in the prison; this repulsive LinkedIn post; maps of Appalachia; this profile of Chad.
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