Originally published by the Washington Post on July 26, 2024. Virginia authorities moved quickly to investigate after Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man, was suffocated on the floor of a state psychiatric hospital in March 2023. By the following week, seven officers and three hospital orderlies who piled on him had been charged with second-degree […]

BY  SARAH RANKIN Updated 2:49 AM EDT, May 19, 2024 Originally published by AP News.   RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you […]

Original Article NPR | By Jaclyn Diaz Published January 14, 2024 at 5:36 PM ET Attorneys representing the sister of Charles Givens — a disabled inmate at Virginia’s Marion Correctional Treatment Center who died after allegedly being beaten by correctional staff — have filed a new federal complaint now naming two prison supervisors. NPR first wrote […]

NPR | By Jaclyn Diaz Published June 24, 2023 at 7:19 AM EDT   Warning: Photography and videography below includes graphic imagery. For more than 12 years, Kymberly Hobbs had taken care of her older brother, Charles “Chuck” Givens. “I’m like his mother,” Hobbs said. She’s still looking after him, even after his death. Givens died last […]