• 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