The plague of Virginia prisoners dying from medical neglect

by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson Reality sets in The reality of death by medical neglect in the Virginia prison system became all too real to me when I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (sic!) [VDOC] in 2021. I had just spent a decade being cycled through various other state prison systems in official efforts to break or silence me from resisting and exposing prison abuses. This reality set in because I returned to Virginia with a diagnosis of prostate cancer, which was then left untreated for a full year and a half by Virginia officials. Theirs was an undisguised agenda to block and delay treatment so the cancer could spread and ultimately prove fatal. The entire process was witnessed by the public as I wrote numerous articles (1), and the public was entreated by supporters to pressure officials to provide me treatment. Treatment which finally came after a year and a half only because of the public’s involvement for which I remain humbled, grateful and still thankfully counted among the living. How they’re killing us But how many have suffered and died or are suffering and dying now because of negligent or intentional medical mistreatment in Virginia’s prisons? The...