{"id":125559,"date":"2024-02-16T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125559"},"modified":"2024-02-16T04:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:02:23","slug":"virginia-inmate-continues-44-day-hunger-strike-to-protest-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125559","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virginia inmate continues 44-day hunger strike to protest solitary confinement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtf.org\/news\/2024-02-07\/virginia-inmate-continues-44-day-hunger-strike-to-protest-solitary-confinement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WVTF<\/a>: &#8220;52-year-old Rashid Johnson and some other prisoners at Red Onion stopped eating the day after Christmas to protest their detention in solitary confinement. They claimed the Virginia Department of Corrections was not abiding by promises to limit isolation of inmates. Since then, attorney Miriam Nemeth with the non-profit<em>\u00a0Rights Behind Bars<\/em>\u00a0says Johnson\u2019s only access to water was his toilet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WVTF: &#8220;52-year-old Rashid Johnson and some other prisoners at Red Onion stopped eating the day after Christmas to protest their detention in solitary confinement. They claimed the Virginia Department of Corrections was not abiding by promises to limit isolation of inmates. Since then, attorney Miriam Nemeth with the non-profit\u00a0Rights Behind Bars\u00a0says Johnson\u2019s only access to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125560,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125559\/revisions\/125560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}