Protect Raven Blackheart – Demand Justice & Trans-Affirming Care

By: UPROAR Admin · June 28, 2025

Protect Raven Blackheart! Raven Blackheart has suffered anti-trans abuse from both guards and prisoners, and her grievances have been ignored. TAKE ACTION NOW!

Updated June 30 2025 – Emergency Health Crisis + Legal-Mail Obstruction
(Raven uses she / her pronouns.)
Raven Blackheart (ID #1918138) now reports untreated, severe lower-right abdominal pain that began on 6/10/25. Staff have refused to examine her and are blocking her legal mail and access to the courts, despite her having paperwork proving the interference. This comes on top of the rape, branding, strip-search humiliation, and PREA retaliation already documented below.

🔍 Case Summary

Key incidents against Raven:

2024: Filed a §1983 suit after documented rape & branding; facility refused to preserve DNA evidence.
Reported to advocates May 6 2025: Raven’s father is seeking counsel & an interstate transfer; Raven confirms she has video evidence of all abuse.
Facility punished Raven by forcing her to sleep on a feces- and urine-soaked mattress (date unspecified).
Raven was OC-sprayed and denied decontamination for roughly six hours (date unspecified).
Raven was subjected to a forced strip search in only her underwear (date unspecified).
Severe lower-right abdominal pain has persisted since early June 2025; sick-call requests ignored.
On or about June 30 2025 staff again refused examination and seized her outgoing legal mail.

✊ Demands

Immediate transfer to a trans-affirming facility with external oversight.
Emergency diagnostic imaging & treatment for Raven’s abdominal pain at an outside hospital.
Independent PREA investigation into all abuses and retaliation.
Trauma-informed care—regular mental-health counseling with an outside specialist.
Facilitate retained counsel: allow Raven unmonitored legal calls & law-library access so her family can pursue litigation and transfer.
End punitive practices: no more coerced waivers, strip cells, or punitive isolation.
Restore legal access: weekly free calls and secure delivery of all legal mail.

OSIG Ombudsman Complaint

Form tips:
• Name / Phone / Email — use your own or leave blank to stay anonymous.
• Relationship to Inmate — e.g., “Concerned citizen advocate.”
• Facility Name — Red Onion State Prison (ROSP).
• Inmate Name, DOC# — Raven Blackheart, #1918138.
• Unit — Suicide-watch cell (segregation).
• Copy the Summary text below into the “Summary of what occurred” box.
• List staff in “Subjects Involved” (names unknown → write “Red Onion staff on C-shift,” etc.).
• Select “Yes” for warden awareness and “Yes” for evidence (video, medical, legal mail).

SUMMARY OF WHAT OCCURRED  (include dates, times, places, persons)

• 2024 – Raven Blackheart was raped and branded inside Red Onion; staff refused to preserve DNA or press charges.  
• 01 Apr 2025 – PREA complaint dismissed; Raven slit her wrist in protest and was placed on suicide watch with no trauma-informed care.  
• 07 May 2025 – During a blackout, staff coerced Raven to sign a waiver and then forced a strip search while she wore only underwear; incident recorded on security video.  
• Date unspecified – Officers OC-sprayed Raven and punished her by forcing her to sleep on a mattress soaked in feces and urine.  
• Early Jun 2025 – Raven developed severe lower-right abdominal pain with dizziness and nausea; multiple sick-call requests ignored.  
• ≈ 30 Jun 2025 – Medical staff again refused examination and seized her outgoing legal mail, blocking court access.  
• Raven remains on suicide watch / segregation without adequate medical or mental-health care.

SUBJECTS INVOLVED  
Unknown Red Onion supervisory and medical staff (names available on video and logbooks).

WITNESSES  
Adjacent inmates, surveillance cameras (unit corridor & blackout incident), seized legal-mail envelope.

DOC AWARENESS  
Warden and medical unit have been alerted via informal complaints and PREA filings; no corrective action taken.

EVIDENCE  
• PREA complaint file and 2024 rape photographs.  
• Security video (blackout strip-search, OC spray, cell conditions).  
• Medical sick-call slips, seizure log for legal mail.

REQUESTED RELIEF  
1. Immediate transport to an outside hospital for abdominal imaging, labs, and pain management.  
2. Trauma-informed mental-health care and daily monitoring while on suicide watch.  
3. Protective transfer to a trans-affirming facility with external oversight.  
4. Return of all seized legal mail and end to correspondence interference.  
5. Independent investigation and disciplinary / criminal referral for all involved staff; written plan within 48 hours.

Please provide a case number and confirm receipt.

➡️ Submit Ombudsman Complaint

Healthcare Compliance Unit

Form tips:
• Nature of complaint — select Neglect and Quality of Care.
• Patient/Resident name — Raven Blackheart (#1918138).
• Program/Facility — Red Onion State Prison (ROSP).
• Summary — copy & paste the text below.

EMERGENCY healthcare complaint – Raven Blackheart (VADOC #1918138)

KEY FACTS  
• Severe lower-right abdominal pain began early Jun 2025; nausea, dizziness documented.  
• Medical staff have ignored multiple sick-call slips; on ≈ 30 Jun 2025 they again refused an examination and confiscated Raven’s outgoing legal mail.  
• Raven is on suicide watch yet receives no trauma-informed counseling; psychiatric meds inconsistently provided.  
• Prior assaults (rape, branding, OC spray, forced strip search) were never medically evaluated or treated.

POLICY & LAW  
• Eighth Amendment – deliberate indifference (Estelle v. Gamble; Farmer v. Brennan)  
• PREA 28 CFR §115 – duty to protect and provide medical follow-up  
• VADOC OP 720.4 – suicide-watch & medical care requirements

REQUESTED ACTION  
1. Immediate outside-hospital ultrasound/CT, labs, and appropriate pain management.  
2. Daily trauma-informed mental-health check while on suicide watch.  
3. Restoration of seized legal mail and a written plan ensuring future medical confidentiality.  
4. Preservation of all medical records and security footage.  
5. Written corrective-action plan within 24 hours.

Treat this as a life-safety emergency and supply a case number upon receipt.

🖥️ Submit Healthcare Complaint

📞 Step 3: Make Calls

VADOC Director – Chadwick Dotson: (804) 674‑3000
OSIG Ombudsman: (804) 225‑2005
OSIG Healthcare Unit: 833‑333‑6744

Hello, my name is ___ and I’m calling about the safety of transgender woman Raven Blackheart (ID #1918138) at Red Onion State Prison.

In 2024 she was raped and branded; staff refused to preserve DNA or press charges.
Her PREA complaint was dismissed, leading her to self-harm.
She endured OC-spray retaliation and was forced to sleep on a feces-soaked mattress (video preserved).
Officers later subjected her to a forced strip search while she wore only underwear.
Since early June 2025 she has suffered severe lower-right abdominal pain; on or about 6 / 30 / 25 medical staff again refused treatment and seized her legal mail.

We demand:

Immediate transport to an outside hospital for diagnostic imaging and treatment.
Ongoing trauma-informed mental-health care.
Protective transfer to a trans-affirming facility with external oversight.
An end to all interference with her legal correspondence.
An independent investigation into staff misconduct and retaliation.

What steps will you take today to protect Raven and meet these demands?

✅ Step 4: Report Your Action

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Thank you for taking action and standing with us. By coming together as a united network of loved ones, you become the source of power that officials fear most. Keep sharing information, organizing your communities, and demanding accountability—your collective voice can expose abuses and force change. Together, we will build UPROAR into a strong, relentless pressure group that protects those behind bars and ensures their well-being.

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