Protect Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington – Stop Chemical Torture & Sexual Humiliation at Red Onion

By: UPROAR Admin · December 11, 2025

Portrait of Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington, a young Black man, smiling in a casual selfie. His loved ones are calling for an end to chemical torture and sexual humiliation against him at Red Onion State Prison. — **Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (#1421147)**, a young Black man held at **Red Onion State Prison**. On **December 10, 2025**, while the prison was on lockdown, he was reportedly **thrown against a wall, stripped, beaten, and soaked in burning “O2” chemical spray**, then left **naked, cold, and screaming for hours** on “suicide watch” in three-piece restraints.

Protect Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington – Stop Chemical Torture & Sexual Humiliation at Red Onion

🚦 Quick Start — What to Do in 10–15 Minutes

Short on time? Do Step 1 Call → Step 2 Oversight Email → Step 3 DOC Contact Form → Step 6 Report Back. All scripts are below — just copy, paste, and send. Anonymous or minimal-info submissions are possible.

Read the red-flag context below so you know what happened and what to ask for.
Call key officials (warden, VADOC leadership, OSIG, Governor) with the 60–90 second script.
Send the oversight email to VADOC, OSIG, Health Services, Governor, and AG using the one-click email tool.
File a DOC “Contact Us” form to put the Department on written notice.
File OSIG complaints (Ombudsman for conditions & retaliation; HCU for medical neglect).
Report what you did so UPROAR can track pressure and coordinate follow-up.

📚 Case & Context 📞 Step 1 – Call ✉️ Step 2 – Oversight Email 📝 Step 3 – DOC Contact Form 📑 Step 4 – OSIG Ombudsman 🏥 Step 5 – OSIG HCU ✅ Step 6 – What Actions Did You Take?

Protect Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington from chemical torture, sexual humiliation, and retaliation at Red Onion State Prison. This page gives you step-by-step tools — calls, emails, DOC complaints, and OSIG forms — to pressure Virginia officials and protect him now.

This campaign is part of UPROAR — Uniting Prisoners’ Relatives Organizing Against Repression. We organize loved ones, create receipts, and force officials to respond. Each call, complaint, and email documents abuse, notifies authorities, and proves when they fail to act.

📚 What Happened to Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington at Red Onion

🚨 Red Alert — Reported Assault, Chemical Exposure, and Sexual Humiliation (Dec 10, 2025)

The details below are based on eyewitness testimony from inside the prison relayed through loved ones and other inside sources.

On December 10, 2025 around 11:00 a.m., while Red Onion State Prison was on lockdown, staff reportedly pulled Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (#1421147) from his cell and:

Threw him up against a wall and tried to twist or break his arm,
Stripped him and left him with no shoes and no clothing,
Beat him and then sprayed him with a burning chemical agent (“O2 spray”),
Put him in three-piece restraints on so-called “suicide watch”.

Witnesses describe the chemical agent as:

Sprayed “all over his body” and described as orange,
Left on his skin for 10+ hours without a shower or decontamination,
Causing continuous burning so severe that he screamed and begged for help,
Combined with nakedness, cold temperature, and restraints — “just naked with that on. That’s it.”

Loved ones and advocates understand this as chemical torture and sexual humiliation — deliberate degradation designed to break dignity and intimidate others, not legitimate “mental-health care.”

Why this matters: This is unfolding in the same Western Region context where witnesses and people who report harm describe retaliation and secrecy, including ongoing concerns about deaths in custody and an information blackout. The point of the actions below is to force written notice + evidence preservation + outside review.

For the broader pattern of retaliation, secrecy, and deaths in custody in this region, see:

Together, these cases show a systematic pattern: lockdowns, chemical agents, sexual humiliation, and secrecy are being used to terrorize incarcerated people and silence witnesses — even as deaths mount across Red Onion, Wallens Ridge, River North and the wider Western Region.

📄 Long History — Grievances & Federal Court Cases (Red Onion / Western Region)

This is not the first time Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington has reported abuse by staff at Red Onion State Prison. For over a decade, he has filed grievances and federal civil-rights lawsuits about conditions, excessive force, humiliation, and denial of care at this same prison and in the Western Region. Court records show multiple pro se §1983 suits naming Red Onion officers, sergeants, lieutenants, hearing officers, and medical staff.

Family members and advocates also report that this week was not the first time staff have used chemical agents on him. The December 10, 2025 attack fits into a long pattern in which Javon is targeted after he speaks up, files grievances, or sues.

Organizing value: these filings show that Red Onion leadership has been on notice for years and that Javon is known to pursue outside remedies when internal systems fail. The December 10 chemical attack should be understood against that backdrop, not as an isolated “incident.”

📞 Step 1: Call to Protect Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington

Call during business hours (Mon–Fri, ~8 a.m.–5 p.m. ET). If you reach voicemail, leave a message — it still counts. Then move to the next number. Start with Red Onion and VADOC leadership, then OSIG, Public Safety, the Governor, and the Attorney General.

Key Numbers (ask for a supervisor if needed)
🔴 Red Onion State Prison – Warden’s Office: (276) 544-6333
🔷 Western Region Administrator (Institutions): (540) 561-7050 (ask for the Western Region Administrator)
🔶 VADOC Director – Central Office: (804) 887-8080
🔶 Chief of Corrections Operations – Central Office: (804) 887-8078
🟠 VADOC Deputy Director of Institutions: (804) 674-3000 (ask for Leslie Leabough)
🟣 OSIG Corrections Ombudsman (main): (804) 251-1778
🟣 Secretary of Public Safety & Homeland Security: (804) 786-5351
🟢 Governor’s Office – Constituent Services: (804) 786-2211
🟠 Attorney General – Constituent Services: (804) 786-2071

Your legislators (highly recommended)
• Find your state Senator & Delegate here: whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov
• Call their Richmond offices and say you are a constituent calling about Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (#1421147) at Red Onion State Prison.

Hello, my name is [Name] and I’m calling from [City, State] about Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington, #1421147, at Red Onion State Prison. Reports from inside the prison say that on December 10, 2025, while Red Onion was on lockdown: • Officers took Mr. Arrington out of his cell, threw him against a wall, and tried to twist or break his arm. • They stripped him, left him with no shoes, beat him, and then soaked him in a burning “O2” chemical spray that turns his skin orange. • Instead of showering or decontaminating him, they put him in three-piece restraints on so-called “suicide watch,” naked and cold on a bare mattress, where he screamed and begged for help for many hours. This is being described by witnesses as chemical torture and sexual humiliation meant to break his dignity and intimidate others. Chemical agents, restraints, and suicide watch are supposed to be governed by strict rules. They are not meant to be used as punishment, retaliation, or humiliation, and people exposed to chemical agents are supposed to be promptly decontaminated and medically evaluated. What is being described here violates those basic standards. Javon Arrington has a long, documented history of filing grievances and federal civil-rights lawsuits against Red Onion and Western Region staff. VADOC leadership has been on notice of this for years. In that context, this incident looks like foreseeable retaliation against someone known to challenge abuse, not a one-time event. It is part of a larger pattern at Red Onion and across the Western Region, including a separate witness-at-risk case and multiple recent deaths in custody. I am demanding that you: 1) Immediately ensure Mr. Arrington is decontaminated, medically evaluated by qualified staff or an outside hospital, and documented in his chart, including treatment for chemical exposure and injury to his arm and body. 2) Remove him from any housing or classification controlled by staff who participated in or supervised this incident, and protect him from further retaliation. 3) Preserve and review all relevant camera footage, use-of-force reports, suicide-watch logs, and medical records from December 10, 2025 onward. 4) Treat this as possible chemical torture and sexual humiliation, not routine discipline, and report what corrective actions you will take. Please send a written response to confirm what steps you are taking to protect Javon Arrington and to prevent this from happening again. Thank you.

✉️ Step 2: One-Click Oversight Email – Chemical Torture & Sexual Humiliation at Red Onion

This email goes to VADOC leadership, regional operations, OSIG Ombudsman, VADOC Health Services, the Governor, Public Safety, and the Attorney General. You can edit the first lines to describe your relationship (family member, loved one, concerned community member, etc.).

Subject: URGENT: Chemical Torture & Sexual Humiliation – Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington #1421147 at Red Onion

Dear VADOC leadership, Public-Safety officials, Ombudsman staff, and Health Services,

I am writing with deep concern about Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (DOC #1421147) at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia’s Western Region.

Eyewitness testimony from inside the prison, relayed through his loved ones and other inside sources, describes a serious incident on December 10, 2025, while the facility was on lockdown:

• Mr. Arrington was pulled from his cell, thrown against a wall, and his arm was twisted in a way that may have caused serious injury.
• He was stripped, left with no shoes, beaten, and sprayed “all over his body” with a burning “O2” chemical agent that turns his skin orange and is described as strong enough to “peel your skin off.”
• Instead of being decontaminated, he was placed on so-called “suicide watch” in three-piece restraints, naked, on a bare mattress, in a cold cell, where he reportedly screamed and begged for a shower, family contact, and medical attention for many hours.

Loved ones and advocates understand this as chemical torture and sexual humiliation. It is not mental-health care. It is deliberate degradation designed to break someone’s pride and intimidate everyone else on the unit.

This did not come out of nowhere. For years Mr. Arrington has filed grievances and federal civil-rights lawsuits about abuse, humiliation, and denial of care at Red Onion and in the Western Region. His family also reports that staff have used chemical agents on him before. Taken together, this incident appears to be part of a long-running pattern of retaliation against someone who speaks up, not an isolated “use of force.” VADOC leadership has been on notice for years that he challenges abuse, and this type of response fits a broader pattern in which the Department punishes people who file grievances, testify, or go to court.

This abuse is occurring in the same Western Region system where families have reported multiple deaths in custody at Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, alongside an information blackout and FOIA stonewalling by VADOC.

See, for example, UPROAR’s recent documentation:

• “Retaliation, Secrecy, and Deaths in Custody – The Western Region After the Killing of Officer Hall.”
• “Collective Punishment & Death in a Closed System.”
• Analysis of prison meetings and political cover that have failed to address these abuses.

Applicable legal and policy standards include:

• VADOC Operating Procedures governing use of force, chemical agents, restraints, and suicide-watch practices, which prohibit use as punishment or retaliation and require decontamination and medical evaluation after chemical exposure.
• Virginia law and the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibit cruel and unusual punishment and deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.
• The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules), which prohibit torture, sexual humiliation, and the abusive use of restraints or isolation.

In light of this, I respectfully demand that you:

1) Immediately ensure full decontamination and medical care for Javon Arrington.
   • Document a complete clinical evaluation for chemical exposure, respiratory and eye impacts, skin damage, and musculoskeletal injury from being slammed and restrained.
   • Provide mental-health support that is non-punitive and trauma-informed, not humiliating or retaliatory.

2) Remove him from any housing or classification controlled by staff who participated in or supervised this incident.
   • This includes reassessing who controls his “suicide watch” status and restraints.
   • Ensure he is not punished or silenced for surviving this abuse or for his family seeking help.

3) Preserve and independently review ALL evidence.
   • Hallway and cell-front camera footage, suicide-watch camera if present, and any body-worn cameras.
   • Use-of-force reports, mental-health notes, suicide-watch logs, and medical records from December 10, 2025 forward.
   • Staff rosters for all officers and supervisors involved.

4) Treat this incident as potential chemical torture and sexual humiliation, and not as routine discipline.
   • Ensure reporting to appropriate oversight bodies, including OSIG and the Healthcare Compliance Unit.
   • Make clear in writing what corrective actions will be taken and on what timeline.

5) Address the broader pattern in the Western Region.
   • Families and advocates should not have to piece together the truth from terrified phone calls and leaked testimony while VADOC exercises “discretion” to keep records secret.
   • Protect witnesses and reporting parties — including incarcerated people and staff — instead of isolating or retaliating against them.

Please respond in writing to explain what steps you will take to protect Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington, to investigate this incident, and to ensure that chemical agents and suicide-watch status are not abused as tools of torture and humiliation.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[City, State]
[Relationship, if desired – “Family member,” “Loved one,” “Concerned community member,” etc.]

📝 Step 3: Submit a VADOC “Contact Us” Complaint

This puts VADOC Central Office and Red Onion leadership on written notice. It should be short and focused. You can send this as a non-family member too; just describe yourself honestly.

Form tips — VADOC “Contact Us” page

Go to: VADOC Contact Us.
Under Does your message regard an inmate? select Yes and fill in:
- Inmate Name: Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington
- DOC#: 1421147
- Current facility: Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), Pound, VA
For Topic, choose something like Medical/Mental Health or Other (not “Jail Concerns”).
Subject suggestion:
Urgent safety & chemical exposure – Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington #1421147 at Red Onion
Paste the gray text below into the main Message box, then personalize if you’d like.
Ask for a written response and keep a screenshot of what you submitted.

I am writing about Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington, #1421147, currently housed at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP) in Pound, Virginia.

I have received serious reports that on or about December 10, 2025, while the facility was on lockdown, Mr. Arrington was taken from his cell, thrown against a wall, stripped and left with no shoes, beaten, and then sprayed “all over his body” with an orange “O2” chemical agent. Instead of being allowed to shower or decontaminate, he was placed on so-called “suicide watch” in three-piece restraints, naked on a bare mattress, in a cold cell, where he reportedly screamed and begged for help and for a shower for many hours.

This combination of chemical exposure, nakedness, cold, and restraints is being described by witnesses as chemical torture and sexual humiliation, not legitimate mental-health care. I am extremely concerned about his physical and mental health and about retaliation against him or anyone who has spoken up.

I respectfully request that VADOC:

1) Ensure that Mr. Arrington receives an immediate medical and mental-health evaluation for chemical exposure, respiratory and eye impacts, possible skin damage, and injuries from being slammed and restrained, with all findings documented in his chart.
2) Provide proper decontamination (shower, clean clothing, bedding) and follow-up care, and ensure that “suicide watch” is not used as a form of punishment or humiliation.
3) Preserve all camera footage (hallway, cell front, suicide-watch area), use-of-force reports, suicide-watch logs, and medical records from December 10, 2025 forward.
4) Review and, if necessary, remove Mr. Arrington from the supervision of any staff who participated in or supervised this incident.
5) Provide a written response explaining what steps are being taken to protect Mr. Arrington from further harm and to prevent similar incidents from occurring.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this urgent matter.

📑 Step 4: File an OSIG Ombudsman Complaint (Conditions, Retaliation, Use of Force)

Form tips — OSIG Corrections Ombudsman Complaint

Open: OSIG Ombudsman Complaint Form .
Contact info: You may give minimal information or remain general, but include enough for case follow-up if you want it.
Facility Name: Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), Wise County, VA.
Inmate Name / DOC#: Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington – #1421147.
Unit: [If you know it, add here; otherwise write “segregation/suicide-watch area at Red Onion”].
Relationship to inmate: Family member, loved one, or concerned community member.
Summary of what occurred: Paste the gray text below.
Subjects involved: Red Onion staff who removed him from his cell, assaulted him, sprayed chemical agents, and placed him on “suicide watch”; supervising sergeants/lieutenants and the duty warden.
Previously reported? Note any DOC complaint, calls to the warden, or outside complaints already filed.
Evidence: Inside testimony; loved one’s phone call; call logs; any written DOC responses; video, use-of-force reports, and medical records that OSIG can obtain.

📝 Ombudsman – Summary of What Occurred

Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (#1421147) is incarcerated at Red Onion State Prison (ROSP) in Virginia’s Western Region. Eyewitness testimony from inside the prison, relayed through his loved ones and other inside sources, describes a serious use-of-force incident that appears to involve chemical torture and sexual humiliation.

On or about December 10, 2025, while Red Onion was on lockdown, staff reportedly:

• Took Mr. Arrington out of his cell and threw him against a wall, twisting his arm in a way that may have caused injury.  
• Stripped him and left him with no shoes and no clothing.  
• Beat him and then sprayed an orange “O2” chemical agent “all over his body,” described as strong enough to “peel your skin off.”  
• Instead of allowing him to shower or decontaminate, placed him in three-piece restraints on so-called “suicide watch,” naked on a bare mattress in a cold cell.

Witnesses report that he screamed and begged for a shower, medical attention, and contact with his family for many hours while burning from the chemical. This treatment appears to be designed to degrade him, strip him of dignity, and intimidate others on the unit rather than to provide legitimate mental-health care. It is being described as sexual humiliation on its face.

This incident takes place in a broader context of alleged abuses, retaliation, and secrecy at Red Onion and across the Western Region (including separate witness-at-risk concerns and multiple recent deaths in custody). There is a pattern of lockdowns, collective punishment, chemical agents, and information blackout.

I am requesting that OSIG:

1) Open an immediate, independent investigation into the use of force against Javon Arrington, treating it as possible chemical torture and sexual humiliation rather than routine discipline.  
2) Secure and review all relevant evidence, including: hallway and cell-front camera footage, any suicide-watch camera, body-worn cameras (if used), use-of-force reports, suicide-watch logs, incident reports, and medical/mental-health records from December 10, 2025 forward.  
3) Determine whether staff violated law, regulation, or VADOC Operating Procedures regarding use of chemical agents, decontamination, restraints, suicide-watch practices, and protection from retaliation.  
4) Recommend appropriate corrective action, up to and including discipline of involved staff, changes in policy or practice, and protections for Mr. Arrington and for any witnesses who have spoken out.  
5) Provide a written response describing what steps have been taken and what findings or recommendations result from this investigation.

➡️ Submit here: OSIG Ombudsman Complaint Form

🏥 Step 5: File an OSIG Healthcare Compliance Unit (HCU) Complaint

HCU focuses on healthcare quality and neglect. Here, the issues are chemical exposure, failure to decontaminate, denial of proper evaluation/treatment, and misuse of “suicide watch” as punishment.

Form tips — OSIG HCU Complaint

Open: OSIG Healthcare Compliance Unit Complaint Form .
Nature of complaint: Neglect and Quality of Care (include “chemical exposure and misuse of suicide watch” in your text).
Patient/resident name: Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington – #1421147.
Program or facility: Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), Wise County, VA.
Summary of what occurred: Paste the gray text below.
Include your contact info if you want a case number and follow-up.

🩺 HCU – Emergency Healthcare Complaint

PATIENT: Javon “Baby Jay” Arrington (#1421147), Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), Western Region – Virginia  
DATE OF INCIDENT: December 10, 2025 (approx.)

SUMMARY / HEALTHCARE ISSUES

I am filing this complaint regarding serious concerns about chemical exposure, lack of decontamination, misuse of “suicide watch,” and denial or delay of appropriate medical and mental-health care for Mr. Arrington.

According to eyewitness testimony from inside the prison, relayed through his loved ones and other inside sources:

• While Red Onion was on lockdown, officers removed Mr. Arrington from his cell, threw him against a wall, stripped him, and beat him.  
• They sprayed an orange “O2” chemical agent “all over his body” that is described as strong enough to “peel your skin off.”  
• Instead of allowing a prompt shower or decontamination, staff placed him in three-piece restraints on so-called “suicide watch,” naked on a bare mattress in a cold cell.  
• He reportedly screamed and begged for a shower, medical help, and family contact for many hours while the chemical continued to burn his skin.

From a healthcare perspective, the key issues are:

1) Possible serious chemical exposure to skin, eyes, and respiratory system (burning, risk of long-term damage).  
2) Failure to provide prompt decontamination (shower, clean clothing, bedding).  
3) Use of “suicide watch” and restraints as a punitive, humiliating environment rather than trauma-informed mental-health care.  
4) Unknown or inadequate clinical evaluation and documentation of his injuries and exposure.

REQUESTED CLINICAL ACTIONS

I respectfully request that HCU:

1) Ensure an immediate, thorough medical evaluation for Mr. Arrington by qualified clinical staff or an outside hospital, including assessment of:  
   • Skin irritation/burns from the chemical agent;  
   • Eye and respiratory impacts;  
   • Any musculoskeletal injuries from being slammed and restrained;  
   • Mental-health impact of this experience.

2) Confirm that proper decontamination has been completed (shower, clean clothing, clean bedding) and that any lingering symptoms are being treated (topical care, pain management, etc.) in a clinically appropriate way.

3) Review whether VADOC and its medical contractors followed appropriate protocols for:  
   • Use of chemical agents and decontamination;  
   • Use of restraints and “suicide watch”;  
   • Timely access to medical and mental-health care after a serious use of force.

4) Require corrective action where protocols were violated, including training and, if necessary, discipline of staff whose actions directly interfered with needed care.

5) Ensure that Mr. Arrington and any witnesses are not punished or further harmed for seeking treatment or for reporting this incident, and that his ongoing access to sick call, mental-health services, and family contact is protected.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this urgent healthcare matter.

➡️ Submit here: OSIG Healthcare Complaint Form

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