Human Rights Watch Statement To The Virginia Crime Commission: Super-Maximum Security

Two months ago Human Rights Watch published a report, "Red Onion State Prison Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Virginia" that sets out human rights-based concerns about who is being confined in Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security prison, and how they are being treated. That report drew on Human Rights Watch's long experience assessing prison conditions in the U.S. as well as overseas