I worked at Red Onion State Prison for almost 5 years! I worked in Segregation the whole time! It really was hard and stressful work! I'll never go back to that mess! I commented below if you want to read what I witnessed while I was there! I did not go deep into everything! Thanks for sharing!
Worked as a Paramedic and would get calls to maximum security prisoners and all I got to say is HELL NO!!! Sometimes I don't think these people know what it's like I've stood in those 6x9 cells and it's just a concrete jungle. I think every Pedophile should face that kind of justice. It definitely steered me to be a law abiding citizen
I worked at Red Onion State Prison from June 2007 to March 2012. I was on the other side of the building (A) when Gleason hung the inmate through the reck cage. I also worked the building that housed Malvo the DC sniper. He was not mean at all and was quite as a mouse. He never bothered nobody that i knew of. I worked in segregation the full 5 years that i was there! It was hard on inmates and us staff! We were always short staff and that made it really hard! Most inmates never bothered nobody. I have seen staff bother inmates by waking them up, kicking their doors and cussing them. On the other side I almost got stabbed 3 times and feces flung on me 3 times. I had supervisor's cuss me so bad I wanted to hit them. Supervisor's treated staff very bad while i was there! The first Warden that was there when I started was just not meant for that position! He really was a counselor that made it there and never wore a uniform! While he was there, there were 600 turnovers with staff estimating it 100 staff quit a year! It was just bad for guys doing time and us Officers because of the way it was run. It was alot of pressure on both sides of the fence just causing Chaos every single day. Wallens Ridge Prison was not as bad as Red Onion and i know for a fact! While i was there we were doing cell entries or cell extractions 2 or 3 times a day. Every now and then we would have a quite day! The biggest problem was over the kitchen; getting inmates food trays messed up! Alot of Officers did not want to correct it and that was the biggest problems and fights! Of course the Kithen Supervisor gave us staff a hard time replacing food trays as well! It was a factor of everything boiling over that just caused confusion and conflicts! Officers were having marriage affairs and other Officers took 2 hour lunch breaks. It was the nature of the Beast! Aot of staff did not want to work as well! The stress was even on us staff as well! It turned some of us into alcoholics and even put us on blood pressure and nerve medication! I could only imagine what a inmate felt being locked down for 23 hours a day! So over all, we had good inmates and we had bad inmates! We had some good Officers and some bad Officers! Thats my story of Red Onion State Prison!
I spent 3 years at Red Onion State Prison. Oct 1998- 2002 when it first opened. It was definitely not a cake walk. This is when it wasn’t 23/1 needless to say it was a much more dangerous place then. Not only from the convicts but the staff as well. The staff often times were far more brutal than the inmates.
I grew up in Pound and calling it a town is very generous, will always home though. I remember some people hated the fact that they put a supermax nearby in case a prisoner escaped and targeted someones house, but escaping Red Onion would make Alcatraz look like childsplay.
This is crazy to say but this is the honest truth I grew up with 8:00 Joaquin Shadow Rams he actually changed his name to this but it wasn’t his real name as a kid we use to hang out together and I use to go to his house when we was young and I knew his mom, she was a nice lady. It was shocking when I heard what he did . My condolence goes out to that baby and the mother of that baby. And my condolences goes out to Joaquin mom that was possibly murdered by him . And a girl that he was dating that died from a gunshot wound that he possibly killed as well. My condolence to all the families. This came as a shock to me a few years back when I found out about what he did. And yes, he doesn’t deserve to see the light a day again.
I love your channel for real. I love documentaries and shirt stories on true crime but i most definitely like these shirt stories on prisons in our country keeo up the great work bro for real
As a West Virginia resident this place reminds me of the old penitentiary in Moundsville, the only thing about Red Onion that presumably makes it safer is it’s more secure in the sense that the inmates can’t just run around and wreak havoc but that of course comes at a hefty cost, if Moundsville is one of very few places to be considered unconstitutional then why the hell is this place in operation.
He committed multiple home invasions. That's a big crime ! Not like he stole a candy bar. He could have really hurt somebody or their kids! He deserves what hes getting.
How dare u even say that without even comprehending the daily punishment inmates get coast to coast u must not understand neuroscience and how our brains work ....the punishment is very much exceeding sentencing.... torture is against the law for reason. We the people must do better!
I've lived in Wise co right down the road from wallens Ridge in Big Stone Gap VA in the first set of apartments on the left coming up the mountain to the Prison
Its better for everyone including the inmate, that he remain in solitaire. Would you want him living in a homeless camp in your neighborhood? I didnt think so
The answer to your question is "No." But if we can figure out how to fly to the moon or the complexities of nuclear fusion we can find a way to treat people with mental illness in prison better. After all...we're all Gods children, right?
Good job on your videos keep posting ones like this this gives everybody good information you need to do one on red onion and another one called Keene Mountain your mama looking to Bland where the FBI and the da went in there and found so much corrupt staff and drugs being done in the prison also Keen Mountain the old Powhatan prison same to the now closed Richmond and Southampton prisons in Virginia you can research all of this
Ive seen the documentary on it. Definitely doesnt sound fun at especially while being alone. You're also surrounded by people who went mental from the solitary confinement hearing their screams and hallucinations.
Being alone, with very little to no human contact, nothing to do, etc causes A LOT of mental illness. And I get people don't care, but they are a lot more dangerous to guards and other inmates. Just a very stupid idea when MOST inmates will come home. Why purposely drive someone insane who you may have to live next to?
Actually people don't necessarily put themselves in the position...it's neuroscience the reactions and handling of adversity rewires our brains .neuroscience..it only recently is being accepted in court defense. It's been proven much why the trauma inflicted by doc our communities pay for when they come home with new sever mental illness after being showed by Inaction that rape and assaults are overlooked, abused further and mishandled by doc and many times. Even done or encouraged by officers
I did a year in the hole in sci green it's in Pennsylvania that shit broke me to I used to count the blocks in the wall it was 56 blocks and 20 half blocks lol 😢
Will get no sympathy from me, he is a criminal and should be treated accordingly. And had threatened officers who are doing a job. So he deserved every second of solitary.
U could wreck as y drank and drive? Would u like your kids or loved ones miss treated? Just because u do a crime doesn’t mean your a dog or cat? Grow up because god sees your every thought
Virginia Prisons used to be off the chain in the 90s. Powhatan, South Hampton, Mecklenburg.. Got out in 03. Never went back. Dont know how they are now, but they were shit.
I ended up in a 3/4 house with a guy who spent 5yrs at red onion. I believe he was down cause he shot 2 ppl, killing one, after having his throat cut in a bar fight and left to die in the parking lot. Joke was on them since he didn't die and went back for some get back... super chill guy. Sooo yea.
@@queenthings266he’s at the Onion. You’d think his crimes would’ve been federal, I still don’t understand why considering it was a cross-state crime spree although he was instead charged individually in the separate states. He’s been in the special housing unit since he was sentenced. Since the Supreme Court decision that it’s unlawful to sentence a minor (he was 17) at the time to life without parole, he very well could walk free one day, but he’ll be an old old man if and when that happens.
Red onion on hunger strike til the public hears their crys about the abuse and neglect by DOC. Our people need our help. In Va and coast to coast. We cant allow it to continue!!! These men fight a caged war daily without armor or true protection! Inmate conditions and abuses effect every one of us!!!!
Wow I WAS THERE I REMEMBER THIS MALVO IS GAY NOW 😂 But I Remeber they BOUGHT THE VIRGIN ISLAND INMATES THERE THEY also had immate from Other. states . IT WASNT enough level 6 custody to fill the prison at the time . Amf they also had Wallens Ridge They was using too
This is the problem with America's prison system the inmates have more rights than it's citizens. If a person goes bonkers in solitary confinement it is because they had to face themselves and themselves alone , period!!!
They survive just find and some prefer it. This man was either acting crazy or he was crazy and needed to be in an psychiatric hospital but the democrats closed all the psychiatric hospitals and now the patients are in prisons and voting booths! I knew an inmate who spent years in Brushy Mountain in the "tombs" and he eventually was reformed.
Would you survive in solitary confinement? Let me know your thoughts!
SC is cruel and unusual punishment- the judges are corrupt and only interested in power and profits
If I can have my own room
no I wouldn't make ,that's why I never did crime thankfully I never got wrongful convicted either.
I worked at Red Onion State Prison for almost 5 years! I worked in Segregation the whole time! It really was hard and stressful work! I'll never go back to that mess! I commented below if you want to read what I witnessed while I was there! I did not go deep into everything! Thanks for sharing!
Yes sir did 2.5 year of it in Indiana....
Worked as a Paramedic and would get calls to maximum security prisoners and all I got to say is HELL NO!!! Sometimes I don't think these people know what it's like I've stood in those 6x9 cells and it's just a concrete jungle. I think every Pedophile should face that kind of justice. It definitely steered me to be a law abiding citizen
So your a pedo?
I worked at Red Onion State Prison from June 2007 to March 2012. I was on the other side of the building (A) when Gleason hung the inmate through the reck cage. I also worked the building that housed Malvo the DC sniper. He was not mean at all and was quite as a mouse. He never bothered nobody that i knew of. I worked in segregation the full 5 years that i was there! It was hard on inmates and us staff! We were always short staff and that made it really hard! Most inmates never bothered nobody. I have seen staff bother inmates by waking them up, kicking their doors and cussing them. On the other side I almost got stabbed 3 times and feces flung on me 3 times. I had supervisor's cuss me so bad I wanted to hit them. Supervisor's treated staff very bad while i was there! The first Warden that was there when I started was just not meant for that position! He really was a counselor that made it there and never wore a uniform! While he was there, there were 600 turnovers with staff estimating it 100 staff quit a year! It was just bad for guys doing time and us Officers because of the way it was run. It was alot of pressure on both sides of the fence just causing Chaos every single day. Wallens Ridge Prison was not as bad as Red Onion and i know for a fact! While i was there we were doing cell entries or cell extractions 2 or 3 times a day. Every now and then we would have a quite day! The biggest problem was over the kitchen; getting inmates food trays messed up! Alot of Officers did not want to correct it and that was the biggest problems and fights! Of course the Kithen Supervisor gave us staff a hard time replacing food trays as well! It was a factor of everything boiling over that just caused confusion and conflicts! Officers were having marriage affairs and other Officers took 2 hour lunch breaks. It was the nature of the Beast! Aot of staff did not want to work as well! The stress was even on us staff as well! It turned some of us into alcoholics and even put us on blood pressure and nerve medication! I could only imagine what a inmate felt being locked down for 23 hours a day! So over all, we had good inmates and we had bad inmates! We had some good Officers and some bad Officers! Thats my story of Red Onion State Prison!
Nah, Wallens is the worst for Inman
The environment is stressful enough. Management should be team building, not tearing staff down.
I spent 3 years at Red Onion State Prison. Oct 1998- 2002 when it first opened. It was definitely not a cake walk. This is when it wasn’t 23/1 needless to say it was a much more dangerous place then. Not only from the convicts but the staff as well. The staff often times were far more brutal than the inmates.
I'm from Pistol city , where you from? sorry for convictions.
There just a gang
A friend of mine served 9 years at red onion. Much of it solitary. He's told me on several occasions wallens ridge was worst.
I grew up in Pound and calling it a town is very generous, will always home though. I remember some people hated the fact that they put a supermax nearby in case a prisoner escaped and targeted someones house, but escaping Red Onion would make Alcatraz look like childsplay.
This is crazy to say but this is the honest truth I grew up with 8:00 Joaquin Shadow Rams he actually changed his name to this but it wasn’t his real name as a kid we use to hang out together and I use to go to his house when we was young and I knew his mom, she was a nice lady. It was shocking when I heard what he did . My condolence goes out to that baby and the mother of that baby. And my condolences goes out to Joaquin mom that was possibly murdered by him . And a girl that he was dating that died from a gunshot wound that he possibly killed as well. My condolence to all the families. This came as a shock to me a few years back when I found out about what he did. And yes, he doesn’t deserve to see the light a day again.
I love your channel for real. I love documentaries and shirt stories on true crime but i most definitely like these shirt stories on prisons in our country keeo up the great work bro for real
This content really interests me. Every prison has a different story, but many are a lot alike. 🙏🙏🙏
Go after the most vulnerable members of society and you get what you get.
So someone who threatens to murder correctional staff after already committing multiple offences, they're the most vulnerable? How naïve are you?
@@caveman5187they're referring to his/the prisoners victims
@@Britlael Oh I see. My mistake then
As a West Virginia resident this place reminds me of the old penitentiary in Moundsville, the only thing about Red Onion that presumably makes it safer is it’s more secure in the sense that the inmates can’t just run around and wreak havoc but that of course comes at a hefty cost, if Moundsville is one of very few places to be considered unconstitutional then why the hell is this place in operation.
i heard about thid before you tube was around i live in Virginia ,thanks for posting
Nice work. Keep them videos coming. I was wanted to know where certain people were housed at.
Will do! I really enjoy making this content.
I just came across your channel great content very interesting.. New sub 👍
He committed multiple home invasions. That's a big crime ! Not like he stole a candy bar. He could have really hurt somebody or their kids! He deserves what hes getting.
He did commit terrible crimes. Seem to me that he should have been a mental health unit from the start.
You will get what u deserve to. Esau.
How dare u even say that without even comprehending the daily punishment inmates get coast to coast u must not understand neuroscience and how our brains work ....the punishment is very much exceeding sentencing.... torture is against the law for reason. We the people must do better!
@@melissaeberling1333dont break the law😂
Maybe u would like to get the same things ?
All prisons should be run this way. You are there to be punished.
All the folks you mentioned deserved to be there. They messed up repeatedly. You gotta lock’em away somewhere
I spent 120 days straight doin the same thing but with an hour 3 days a week If we wasn’t on locked down.. if so we we didn’t go out for weeks
Banky Pound has been telling yall about Red Onion!
I just came home from The Onion 2018. Rough Ride. I landed there twice during my bid. we near Kentucky amd Tennessee.
Half of these guys can't walk the yard on other major institutions
Anyone here because of Jay Williams😊
I've lived in Wise co right down the road from wallens Ridge in Big Stone Gap VA in the first set of apartments on the left coming up the mountain to the Prison
Its better for everyone including the inmate, that he remain in solitaire. Would you want him living in a homeless camp in your neighborhood? I didnt think so
The answer to your question is "No." But if we can figure out how to fly to the moon or the complexities of nuclear fusion we can find a way to treat people with mental illness in prison better. After all...we're all Gods children, right?
Jesus forgave but humans are unforgiving
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone
That what happens to alot of inmates or their loved ones effected by their PTSD they bring home
Good job on your videos keep posting ones like this this gives everybody good information you need to do one on red onion and another one called Keene Mountain your mama looking to Bland where the FBI and the da went in there and found so much corrupt staff and drugs being done in the prison also Keen Mountain the old Powhatan prison same to the now closed Richmond and Southampton prisons in Virginia you can research all of this
Ive seen the documentary on it. Definitely doesnt sound fun at especially while being alone. You're also surrounded by people who went mental from the solitary confinement hearing their screams and hallucinations.
Being alone, with very little to no human contact, nothing to do, etc causes A LOT of mental illness. And I get people don't care, but they are a lot more dangerous to guards and other inmates. Just a very stupid idea when MOST inmates will come home. Why purposely drive someone insane who you may have to live next to?
@tylerkinley268 that's kind of the point you're making is they don't care and unfortunately these people pit themselves in that position
Actually people don't necessarily put themselves in the position...it's neuroscience the reactions and handling of adversity rewires our brains .neuroscience..it only recently is being accepted in court defense. It's been proven much why the trauma inflicted by doc our communities pay for when they come home with new sever mental illness after being showed by Inaction that rape and assaults are overlooked, abused further and mishandled by doc and many times. Even done or encouraged by officers
I did a year in the hole in sci green it's in Pennsylvania that shit broke me to I used to count the blocks in the wall it was 56 blocks and 20 half blocks lol 😢
That was torture. I am so sorry those meant to protect u only hurt u more. It's tragedy what we do to our people
What year were you there
He was sentenced to 78 years, yet his release date is 2352... That's 341 years in prison...
Why should we feel bad for this guy. He robbed multiple homes and threatened staff. He deserved to be locked away.
Will get no sympathy from me, he is a criminal and should be treated accordingly. And had threatened officers who are doing a job. So he deserved every second of solitary.
No he doesn’t it’s a violation of the constitution- it’s called cruel and unusual punishment. Nuff said
U could wreck as y drank and drive? Would u like your kids or loved ones miss treated? Just because u do a crime doesn’t mean your a dog or cat? Grow up because god sees your every thought
🥴 We got Guard towers on the inside of the prison too. No matter where u walk. Its a gun on you. And a dog. As well
Danny, the dude on after prison show for a while, he claimed like 10 years in red onion solitary.
Read the details of the individual’s numerous crimes against very elderly persons. An animal……
Virginia Prisons used to be off the chain in the 90s. Powhatan, South Hampton, Mecklenburg.. Got out in 03. Never went back. Dont know how they are now, but they were shit.
Virginia courts and corrections don't play
I would've gone insane in three days
Some dudes have done 2o+ years in solitary. Hell be fine.
Oh well. 🐶 Bow WOW
I ended up in a 3/4 house with a guy who spent 5yrs at red onion. I believe he was down cause he shot 2 ppl, killing one, after having his throat cut in a bar fight and left to die in the parking lot. Joke was on them since he didn't die and went back for some get back... super chill guy. Sooo yea.
Nah because i work at red onion and malvo dont really be causing us problems
Isn’t Malvo in ADX Florence?
Virginia Inmate Locator shows him at Red Onion.
@@chasingcrime I believe you!
@@queenthings266he’s at the Onion. You’d think his crimes would’ve been federal, I still don’t understand why considering it was a cross-state crime spree although he was instead charged individually in the separate states. He’s been in the special housing unit since he was sentenced. Since the Supreme Court decision that it’s unlawful to sentence a minor (he was 17) at the time to life without parole, he very well could walk free one day, but he’ll be an old old man if and when that happens.
No
This thug should have obeyed the law. Home invasion is a very serious crime, guarantee if he was free to roam, he would be doing it again.
What Black prison gangs in Virginia prison? Black Guerilla Family? Vice Lords?
Red onion on hunger strike til the public hears their crys about the abuse and neglect by DOC. Our people need our help. In Va and coast to coast. We cant allow it to continue!!! These men fight a caged war daily without armor or true protection! Inmate conditions and abuses effect every one of us!!!!
How
LEE BOY MALVO
Wow I WAS THERE I REMEMBER THIS MALVO IS GAY NOW 😂 But I Remeber they BOUGHT THE VIRGIN ISLAND INMATES THERE THEY also had immate from Other. states . IT WASNT enough level 6 custody to fill the prison at the time . Amf they also had Wallens Ridge They was using too
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This is the problem with America's prison system the inmates have more rights than it's citizens. If a person goes bonkers in solitary confinement it is because they had to face themselves and themselves alone , period!!!
Pretty ignorant statement
U wouldn't be able to handle it face yourself u think that's what it's about... What a sick uneducated being.
This has got to be the most ignorant statement I've ever come across in my 27 years on earth.
The co's killed that man or allowed it .
He was living in a back alleyway on the street what's the difference
Can’t do the time don’t do the crime
this why anybody locked down need get the guards at all cost . guards need ne prison also .
They survive just find and some prefer it. This man was either acting crazy or he was crazy and needed to be in an psychiatric hospital but the democrats closed all the psychiatric hospitals and now the patients are in prisons and voting booths! I knew an inmate who spent years in Brushy Mountain in the "tombs" and he eventually was reformed.
Wrong!!! Reagen was REPUBLICAN. He closed them down. You Trump dumps blame everything on dems.
They gave him too much time.. You're camara is amazing
F- the police straight up
until a crime is committed against u.
How about f the corruption across the board.
@@chitlynn5181right?!