Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: WHAT WE ARE ABOUT

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT





FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA PRISONERS 


ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE ESTIMATED 510,000 VIRGINIA FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER AND FRIEND IMPRISONED IN THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS? 



VIRGINIA PRISONS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE (vapac) is: Virginia families for transparency and accountability in Virginia Department of Corrections and Prisons (VADOC).

TAX PAYERS OF VIRGINIA meaning families and friends of Virginia Prisoners spend a $1 billion a year on the Department of Corrections. Yet VADOC, in the recent words of one Virginia Mother whose son is imprisoned "Behave as if it's above the law and it's accountability.

VIRGINIA PRISONS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE States: To often those who exploit a biased, one sided and unequal application of the rule of law.  Have successfully distorted the idea of holding prison officials accountable as its proponents are soft on crime and coddling prisoners.

VAPAC disagrees.  We stand to expose that narrative as a petty argument for prison officials to break laws and violate their own policies and procedures.

VAPAC asserts that no one is above the law especially prison officials who are entrusted with the privilege, of maintaining the imprisonment experiment.

LETS STAND TO MAKE VIRGINIA PRISONS TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE.

6 comments :

vanne hanisch said...

I think the prison system as a whole needs to be overhauled from a system of oppression and demoralization to one of respect and rehabilitation.

C rose said...

Far too often the guards are in violation of the laws. They do bodily harm to prisoners. The DOJ told me they hire like all other jobs and all guards wont be good. That is unacceptable. The guards are like a gang or overseers. The law is becomimg lawless

C rose said...

Prosecutors are horrible. They are vicious and should be held accountable. False prosecution or malicious prosecution should be against the lae

Unknown said...

3-18-2019 @ fluvvanna correctional center for women. My daughter was refused her tray...food and put in segragation they refuse sanitary nampkins during her menstrual cycle and Tawny hamlet 1434788 & it's retaliation after they kept Shaylynn Pinson in segragation for 8 months no formal charge..my daughter and I contacted naacp for her ACLU of va, equal Justice intitive...just last night two inmates were fighting maybe 130 pounds ..two giant make gaurds broke rhem apart and starting kicking the one female in the face.... excessive force....they de humanisethe women humiliation and starve them deprive them of medical care..

Real Prison Issues said...

I spent a total of 20 years in the Virginia DOC. State officials are fooling themselves. The conditions are terrible. The system has progressively gotten worse over the decades. I am glad I am free and clear...a free man who paid his debt.

I totally believe in accountability, but doesn't that apply to state officials as well on any level? They don't practice what they preach.

There are simple solutions. There really are. Maybe they should ask someone who has been through the system...you can only learn so much from a book.

Anonymous said...

Until those who tend to feel as if they are not impacted by the mass incarceration numbers understand that each year when they pay those taxes they are affected. They are affected not only by those on the inside of the prison walls but also by the families who struggle to survive that have now become one income households. From food to electricity, to child care etc. She’d light on what those individuals hold dear which is their bank account in order to shed light on the wrongs being done.
Until the courts start holding staff of DOC accountable just as the ACA claims to do along with the DOJ which by their claims nothing that is allowed would even be attempted if they knew accountability was an actual thing.
Get those who are in our state government out that seem to be in the pocket of Harold clarke which is shown by events in which not a lot of public body is aware of. So many things that need to be done but the starting point is fo educate yourself on those of which you vote for, stop choosing one or the other for their party and start investigating into their actual beliefs and their associations.