CHRONOLOGY & LINKS
August 1998 Red Onion opens
April 1999 Wallens Ridge opens
April 1999 Human Rights Watch Report
Sept 1999 New Mexico transfers inmates to Wallens Ridge
Oct/Nov 1999 Connecticut transfers inmates to Wallens Ridge
January 2000 FBI investigates abuses at Wallens Ridge and Red Onion
April 5, 2000 David Tracy dies
July 4, 2000 Lawrence Frazier dies
July 2000 Connecticut families protest Virginia prison
January 2001 Ron Angelone receives national corrections award
May 2001 Virginia suspends use of Ultron 2 stun devices
July 2001 Connecticut removes inmates from Wallens Ridge
Dec 2001 Four Wallens Ridge C.O’s are arrested after complaints of abuse.
All four are eventually acquitted
March 2002 State of Connecticut pays Frazier family 1.1 million dollars in settlement and Tracy family $750,000
August 2003 Connecticut Director of Corrections John Armstrong is made Deputy Director of Corrections in Iraq \
Counterpunch
New York Times
August 2004 Connecticut removes prisoners from Virginia
Up the Ridge Score:
National Public Radio news story on Up the Ridge score
Review of by DaveyD of Up the Ridge score
AP article on production of Up the Ridge score