CHESAPEAKE A Portsmouth man and his former girlfriend were sentenced Tuesday for a rash of brazen home invasions in 2011 that stretched across Hampton Roads - and cost one victim two of his fingers. During an extended hearing in Chesapeake, Tyquine Lee was sentenced to 59 years in prison on top of 19 years he received in Norfolk. A jury in Virginia Beach has recommended an additional 34 years.
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Tyquine Lee, 28, spent over 600 days in solitary at Red Onion prison in Virginia from 2016 to 2018.
Red Onion is a supermax prison treated as an end of the line facility within the penal system.
61,000 adults and children are held in segregation in US prisons, according to the most recent data.
When Takeisha Brown finally got to visit her son, Tyquine Lee, at the Red Onion State Prison, Virginia, she didn t recognize him. I saw someone that wasn t my son. He was just so small. He was rambling in numbers. He had a language of his own.