[Originally posted to RashidMOD.com on May 15, 2025.] On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department. Upon reporting to property I …
On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in the state, incarcerated people are still subjected to this brutal …
This piece was originally posted to RashidMoD.com on November 10, 2023. On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history of racism and abuse. Red Onion’s notoriety goes back to when the prison first opened, with a 1999 report by …
“Defying the Tomb is a very easy and exciting read. However, it is also the very cornerstone of the kind of political education that the masses of our people need. I will even go as far as to say that this book is this generation’s Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters …
In the month of April, 2022 I was transferred from Virginia’s infamous Supermax Prison called Red Onion to Jessup Correctional Institution in the state of Maryland through Interstate Compact transfer. After months of trying to settle and focus on the battles at hand, one of my primary goals was to …
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been imprisoned for over 30 years. His original conviction stemmed from lumpen activity, but he became a revolutionary New Afrikan early in his time inside. He is the author of Defying the Tomb (2010) and Panther Vision (2015), and the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary …
As of June 16, 2018, Rashid is back in Virginia, at Red Onion State Prison. We’ll leave it to Rashid to explain the context of this move and what has been going on with him; suffice to say that he continues to be targeted by prison officials due to his …
What follows is a message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is currently being held at a behavior modification unit in Oregon, where he suffered a severe health crisis earlier this year. It answers many of the questions we have had since we learned of his predicament. -k February 2013:Â They …
On April 5, K.L. McGuyer, Associate Warden of the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, mailed a letter to Kersplebedeb Publishing informing us that Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson featuring Exchanges with an Outlaw, was now being deemed contraband at Pelican Bay. The letter …
This is the latest book published by Kersplebedeb, and i am pleased to say copies have now arrived, and are ready to ship out! Follow the author’s odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison …