WE CALL ON THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO ACTUALLY ENGAGE WITH US THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA IN A PUBLIC FORUM By William Thorpe

Yes The Commonwealth of Virginia has those we elect to represent The People's interest and hold accountable actions by those the People delegate authority to via the myriad of applicable means, which direct engagement by the People is basic and fundamental and irrespective of representative government and governance cannot be ceded and when circumstances arise that require direct engagement with the People of Virginia it must be honored and respected. The Virginia Department of Corrections occupies and provides a specific and unparalleled service within the terms of the Commonwealth's Social Contract.

Okay, despite the prerogatives and privileges given the Virginia Department of Corrections by the People of Virginia along with the intrinsic and implicit benefit of the doubt or deference to its Executive decisions and exclusivity. The Department isn't above reproach and scrutiny and when from all appearances and performances those elected by the People of Virginia to fulfill oversight over the Departments activities and philosophy have in principle and deed, regardless of reasons abrogated the Peoples trust and faith in their ability to do so and in order to maturely realize their responsibilities and obligations as citizens and People of Virginia, on whether to continue on with the nature of The Department or .require a fundamental reform--- The People as motive force of all that is the Commonwealth of Virginia have recourse to demand direct engagement with the Virginia Prison Official whom they have delegated and given the privilege of performing the Social Contract service of imprisoning people. The Virginia Department of Corrections, based on all available evidence has compromised and violated one of the fundamental terms of Social Contract as realized by the Human Condition and its with such recognition the People of Virginia including the Virginia Prisoner exercise the demand of direct engagement with the Department.

Oversight of governance and governmental acts means those The People have entrusted with the responsibility will have that all seeing and watchful eye of what is being done in the name of The People. A review of Court filings in Virginia Courts will show that claims and allegations of reprehensible and unbefitting behavior of The Commonwealth of Virginia have been lodged against the Virginia Prison Official over and over, repeatedly, consistently making the same claims, implying that not only isn't the requisite oversight of the Department of Corrections non existent, but that fundamental, "good moral character ", expectation and requirement of governmental action is ignored.

BLACK'S LAW 2d EDITION, defines "Good Moral Character", like this:1. A pattern of behavior that is consistent with the community's current ethical standard and that shows an absence of deceit or morally reprehensible conduct. 2 A pattern of behavior conforming to a profession's ethical standards and showing an absence of moral turpitude. Now my contention as I present it to the People of Virginia for engagement with The Virginia Department of Corrections and the Prison Official, is simply this the Department as expression of the sovereignty of The People is in complete and comprehensive violation of the "good moral character" behavior of the Virginia Prison Official.

The engagement seeked by the People of Virginia, with The Virginia Department of Corrections is specifically for educational purposes, so the People will be better equipped to vote their interest in the upcoming 2025 Statewide elections. Because the issue isn't about how something is explained away. What is being done to the Virginia prisoner in all it's variegated gradations by the Virginia prison official in the name and under the authority of The People of Virginia is adjudged by that one and only Judge, HISTORY, where the People of The current Commonwealth will either live in infamy for dereliction and complicity with all that the Human Condition struggles against or The People of the Commonwealth will eternally stand as completely realized Humans because they reclaim their authority by correcting the impunity of the Virginia prison official .

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

REFORM OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME REQUIRES AND DEMANDS A CORRECT ACCOUNTING OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S HISTORY, TO SHOVE ASIDE THE SOPHISTRY OF IT'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BENEFICIARIES By William Thorpe

I BEGIN: Imprisonment in Virginia as Nationally begun its morph into its present state as a direct result of The Civil War and the Faustian, bargain with the devil, that created The 13th Amendment to the U.S Constitution and its "except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall having been duly convicted" clause or should be correctly described as that back door back into slavery and the nullification of all that the Civil War stated. Because the Civil War was about the destruction of States Rights to enslave people, but in the process of abolishing slavery legally and politically, that back door of its continuum "shall have been duly convicted" provided those who couldn't see life without slavery, a sliver of opportunity that yes, their political-economy model of unrequited and unremunerated labor would still thrive. So laws were quickly and hurriedly enacted and passed to reenslave the newly freed and liberated enslaved, by entrapment into imprisonment.

Yes its undeniable and inarguable that people, the Human commits monstrous acts and deeds and it isn't my intention with this work to lead you the reader to an example, you can use your own reference point, but what I will point out is the apogee or zenith of monstrous commissions isn't by a private citizen or even groups of private citizens, but without qualification and condition, monstrous acts and deeds are always and I emphasize always committed and perpetrated by a Politics, its economic interest and pursuits under the sovereignty of the citizenry or People under the rule of law and the administration of its process. Virginia, within our National context paved the way for the application of that perfidious back door of reenslavement, which we experience as the Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison system. No one honest person will declare that any Social construct is beyond reform, yet that is the shameless position of those who benefit from the application of, specifically imprisonment in the Commonwealth. Our work is to expose the dishonesty of their arguments and show that notwithstanding the fact that yes "Justice", in whatever civilized form is a necessary component of any mature Social Contract, which the Commonwealth sure as hell claims to be, however we shouldn't become complicit in its perversion, by those who lost the Civil War.

Our work, meaning focus is on reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, subsequently its conditions and circumstances. As such we must shove aside the misanthropic and degenerate sophistry of its reactionary proponents and their invidious allied elements, by removing whatever veneer they exploit in their labors of distorting the salient and fundamental terms of reform and its demands. The People of the Commonwealth of Virginia fall into any number of categories relative to any necessary reform of aspects and terms of The Social Contract, which the imprisonment scheme and its Justice Infrastructure is a fundamental question. There is that category of holdovers from the pre-Civil War era and its antebellum psychosis, incapable of renouncing and repudiating the intellectual-liberalism of supremacy and its political-economy, as such will execute the most insensate arguments against any hint or push for reform of Virginia imprisonment and independent of political Party affiliation we find them cloaked in all the idealistic thought produced by the Human Condition. Nationalism in all its incarnations, Conservatism and its supremacist delusions, Theocracy and its perpetual hypocrisies and all the other absurdities emanating from the hodgepodge listed above. Historically anti-prison reformers in Virginia have exploited all sorts of gimmicks as means and mechanisms of garnering support.

Opposition to prison reform is easy. All it takes is a visceral evocation of any number of deeds, perpetrated by any of our hapless members of humanity and reactionaries are off to the races with it and the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme isn't any different. From the stock prison isn't a Holiday Inn, to all the various apologies and excuses given by supporters of the savagery and barbarism of the Virginia prison official while conveniently and insidiously sacrificing the very foundational and fundamental lattice and glue of Virginia's Social Contract and its terms with their reprobate logic. What I mean by, conveniently and insidiously sacrificing the very foundational and fundamental lattice and glue of Virginia's Social Contract, is this: First of all Virginia's Social Contract or the fundamental construction of the Commonwealth of Virginia as a sovereign entity is a work of Law, in other words, Society composes itself then it declares the process as acts of Law, so everything of society or in this case Virginia are materializations of Law. As such, consequently and significantly the imprisonment scheme is its manifestation. The entire prison construct is comprehensively Law.

It isn't my intent to saddle you the reader with formulations of ideas and concepts that are borne on propositions that the World has been explained and our work is to change or reform it. Because these conceptual facts are resolved and undisputed, there isn't an aspect, circumstance or condition that is outside, in this case of Virginia Law, contrary to the sophistry produced by Court rulings, that want to have it both ways. If imprisonment in Virginia is a process of law, if the condition itself is constructed on terms of law then every aspect of its presumptions, by Virginia's Government is under law. However, firstly Virginia prison anti-reformers, understand this fact more comprehensively than the reformers, as such upon its anticipation, the reactionaries or anti-reformes have recharacterized everything about Virginia's pursuit and application of its Justice Infrastructure to achieve the distortion, that the nature, circumstance and condition of imprisonment in the Commonwealth is an ad hoc construct solely up to the dictatorial whim of antebellumnesque suppositions.

We see this clearly in the recharacterization and misappropriation of the descriptive, "Public Safety". Because Virginia reactionaries and their ally anti-prison reformers, have understood that, to maintain their antebellumnesque psychosis, commandeering definitions of Virginia governmental functions and services is a must. In other words it's that political maneuver of defining the opposition, so we see the descriptive, Public Safety applied in ways that have nothing to do with safety. Chuck D of the Group Public Enemy, captured this phenomenon aptly, with his commentary on the function of the 911 service. We all understand 911,to be a governmental service of assistance. Well Chuck D and Flava Flav gave voice to what some of our community members experience with it, when he classically memorialized the observation with the lyric,"911 is a joke in your town",meaning, despite the fact the entire Society contributes to the existence and purpose of the 911 service, it isn't equitably accessed. Which is the same thing with the misappropriation of the definition, Public Safety, deployed by reactionaries and their retrograde allies in their war against the Virginia prisoner by opposing reform of the practices and attitudes of the Virginia Department of Corrections in the administration of its prisons. What we experience is a mindless opposition to the reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, without rhyme or reason, which can only be explained by the realization that Virginia's reactionaries are caught, stuck and trapped in a netherworld of pre Civil War Virginia.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS AND THE POLITICS OF IMPRISONMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH by William Thorpe

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That thing of, "if you can't speak for yourself, someone else will "and its almost a given that, it won't be in your interest, doesn't just apply to the usual suspects, meaning those perennially defined by the exploitive status quo narrative, that means prisoners and the dynamic and history that produces and creates us, but also major Political Partys, like The Democratic Party of Virginia or as I'll use it in this work, Virginia Democrats. Because forever Virginia Democrats have allowed others to define them on issues of imprisonment in The Commonwealth by speaking not necessarily for them but on them and naturally, you guessed it disadvantaging not merely card carrying Democrats, but the entire Social Contract and its integrity because anything and I underscore and emphasize, anything that undermines the faith and trust in the narrative of Virginia's Social Contract, which the maladministration of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment typically highlights, only metastasizes that inevitable rot. I begin: Virginia Democrats notwithstanding the impactful work they, gave the Commonwealth under the leadership of Governor Ralph Northam, by way of certain reforms of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment scheme, seem to be regressing to their habit of allowing others to frame their intentions and define them in ridiculous and frivolous ways as it relates to and concerns imprisonment in the Commonwealth.

Contrary to the propaganda of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, it isn't about justice or punishment or even rehabilitation and as a latest example and simple proof of this is the focus and efforts of Jason Miyares in his position as Attorney General, to scrap a Virginia law that has not only incentivized Virginia prisoner constructive behavior, but ensured that 64.5% of released prisoners didn't reoffend. The law in question was one demanded by the Virginia citizenry, who at least are not burdened with the truth that Virginia's imprisonment scheme is an undeniable, cataclysmic, catastrophic and unmitigated disaster, evidenced by the spectacle and an incredulous one at that of the attorney general denouncing a law that is creating stable citizen behavior of released imprisoned Virginians. Virginia Democrats were pliant accomplices in the Republican speculative work of abolishing parole in the Commonwealth in 1995 which by employing Republican logic, metric and sophistry has been a complete failure, because they still beat the crime drum, expecting us to forget and ignore that abolishing parole was sold as a end all. No one expects a end all, when the question is human behavior and the focus of this work isn't to indulge in its speculation. What I'm getting at is reminding Virginia Democrats that they have a lot and much to say on the terms of Virginia's Social Contract within its imprisonment scheme.

The Politics of Imprisonment in Virginia is simple, its on Virginia Republican terms, meaning they exploit the malbehavior of criminality and deviance and the obvious harm on victims to speculative political power, while braining Virginia Democrats over the head with the invective and slur, "soft on crime", therefore rendering Democrats reform polemic impotent. What is fascinating about this, or rather what the politics of imprisonment reveals is the fear Virginia Democrats harbor over crime as their Achilles heel. Because the opposite is true, Republicans are the ones who support and enable the criminality of impunity by the Virginia prison official. But what Republicans have been able to effectively do is recharacterize what should be considered as crime, what the People of Virginia should focus on as impacting, again the Republican definition of Public Safety, in other words its that classic distraction by the matador with the red cape to the Bull, while concealing the plunging sword. Because the criminality perpetrated by the Virginia prison official destroys faith and trust in Virginia's Social Contract.

First of all Republicans and the Virginia Republican would rather care less about crime, save for the fact its a convenient tool and mechanism to extract votes from the people of Virginia to accomplish their one and only intent, which is crass social recognition and plunder of the accompanying accoutrements of political leadership, because their stated raison d'tre, disqualifies them from any practical and honest contribution to that Madisonian concept and aspiration of a "more perfect union", which is what reform of and introspective examination of aspects of The Social Contract ask of The People, particularly within the apparatus of the Justice Infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme and we already know this, as such we hold The Democratic Party, who at least professes to have an inkling that even if ones "thought" only goes as far as the venality of political vanity, meaning that unwillingness to care about The People, still there has to be some sort of consideration of the subjects and basis of the exploitation, responsible for going along with the distortive narrative on criminal issues lobbed by Virginia Republicans who really have not a care on what is in the best interest of the People of Virginia.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

WHAT DOESN'T VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR STATE WIDE ELECTIONS IN 2025 GET THAT DOING TIME IN VIRGINIA PRISONS ISN'T OPPORTUNITY FOR PRISON OFFICIALS TO BREAK THE LAW IN THEIR TREATMENT OF PRISONERS ? By William Thorpe

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Look we already know where Virginia Republicans and their National brethren stand on law and its due process--THEY IGNORE AND VIOLATE IT. No one in their right mind would waste time impressing Republicans with the fact that without the law and its processes that they ignore and violate they wouldn't be in the position of violating it. The issue however is with Democrats who at least present an inkling that, they understand that President JOHN ADAMS wasn't a dotard or daft when he reminded us through his compatriots and contemporaries, that the newly constructed and nascently emerging UNITED STATES, was a Nation of "laws and not of men", which is the requisite and necessary "reagent", of constructing forthrightness and even JOHN ADAMS couldn't have fore saw the present condition, where accountability isn't to due process of law, but to men.

Recently Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares was again in the news hectoring and lecturing Virginia legislators, with his cat nip fascination over Virginia prisoners receiving "good time" or Earned Sentence Credits, which of all that is wrong with The Commonwealth's Social Contract, is his singular focus and he's quoted as saying, "Too many elected officials have decided to use the law as a social experiment rather than as a shield", because his point is, supposedly 35.5% of 7,193 Virginia prisoners released due to the Earned Sentence Credits law reoffended, therefore the law not only is suspect but it renders its proponents vulnerable to that ridiculous, infantile and idealistic Republican critique of "social experiment" or its other formulation popularized by the clay feet of reactionary politics, Newt Gingrich, "social engineering".

Look people this is crazy. Here we have the Attorney General of Virginia, a Constitutional Office, as such is intended to inspire and consequently be forward looking. Yet the current occupant, Jason Miyares is giving us the most insensate of arguments, which quite frankly is indefensible and is only tolerated because of the deference and benefit of the doubt given and accorded the office. We are told that a law which a majority of Virginians voted for because they demanded reform of an imprisonment scheme and condition done in their name and authority, must be scrapped, because Jason Miyares and the "thought" that he represents, is politically at odds with it? And the argument is because 35.5% of Virginians released from prison under the law, supposedly reoffended and you know what let's even ignore context and deal with our Attorney General's argument on its terms, yeah the Jason Miyares vantage, which is if 2,553.15 of 7,193 released prisoners reoffended, it means,4,639.485 didn't and in what world wouldn't that be a cause for celebration?. People think about this 64.5% of prisoners released under a law incentivizing the Virginia prisoner's behavior DIDN'T REOFFEND and our Attorney General Jason Miyares wants to scrap the law ?.

The point I'm making brings me to my central focus, these past 3+ years rule of Republican as Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin have been that colloquial, when you think it can't get worse, Virginia Republicans say oh hell yeah we'll make it worse, because who would have thought that we'd see the Virginia prisoner reduced to perdition and it's desperation of self-immolation? and that wasn't beyond the pale enough till the Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections Chadwick Dotson, opened his mouth dismissing the fact that prisoners entrusted to his care where setting themselves on fire, who by the way before assuming the position as Director was Chairman of The Virginia Parole Board and before that was a Circuit Judge of Wise County. I mean in a sane, sensible and incorruptible world we would retrace and review every single decision Chadwick Dotson has ever made in his professional life, because his comments alone on the prisoner self-immolation at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison are defacto disqualifiers, and aren't Judges supposed to exhibit Solomonic wisdom?. Anyway the point is, in light of all of this sword of Damocles savagery and barbarism hanging over Virginia Republicans and their prison policies, Virginia Democrats running for Statewide and Local Elections in November have revealed themselves, despite the fact that during their last ascension to the reins of Virginia Governance and Government, they accomplished significant prison reforms, incapable of saying what all rule of law and its due process Virginia adherent understand, which is The Virginia Department of Corrections is corrupt and begs for an accounting. Which is what these November Elections anticipate.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

BESIDES THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, THE ONES WE HOLD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BARBARIC AND CRIMINAL HEALTH CARE GIVEN THE VIRGINIA PRISONER ARE THE TRADE GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS By William Thorpe

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The Hippocratic Oath exist for a reason, it is the measure and standard of the professional behavior of Doctors and Medical workers. It doesn't have sub paragraphs or categorys exempting prisoners, more specifically relating to this work, the Virginia Prisoner, from its unqualified obligation and responsibility of providing medical care. However time and time, again and again, what we experience and know from the existence of exhaustive examples of the compromising and violative nature, type and circumstances of medical care and treatment allowed the Virginia prisoner is the shameful betrayal of the unchallenged requirement of the Hippocratic Oath, by members of Virginia's medical professional and health care community, who are unconditionally accorded and given respectability and its concordant, benefit of the doubt by The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia, besides their professional existence but even more note worthy, their existence as private persons. I begin: Henry "Bobilly" Gorham Jr., a Virginia prisoner who recently died at The Greensville Correctional Center after being continuously imprisoned over a mind boggling and obscenely unfathomably, unimaginably 50+ years in Virginia's cages, of the ridiculous claims of pancreatic and liver cancer as "natural causes", which I chastised in an earlier work that no Black Person ever since the impact of slavery and colonialism, has died of natural causes and Bobilly was a Black Man, then we are confronted with the issue The People of The Commonwealth avert their scrutiny from, which is, the legality construct of imprisonment requires accountability of its every single aspect, beginning with, NO VIRGINIAN IS SENT TO PRISON TO DIE.

When The People of Virginia exercise their organized violence of detaining and confining a Virginian in prison under due process of law for a set amount of time, practically there isn't under law the presumption that the natural course of events of the human existence are corollary with the imprisonment, because human existence is a confluence and congruence of interacting circumstances, sets of relations that do not exist independent of each other and the characterization loss of liberty due to imprisonment isn't able under law to legitimately account for, unless we accept that the detention and confinement of imprisonment despite process of law is still and relatively an arbitrary and ad hoc enterprise. Because if the State of Virginia which is The People are not generally and specifically responsible and accountable for the fact that a sovereign distinct individual human being, and by all honest metrics, there isn't, such a recognition and the acceptance, notwithstanding the state of being subject to the compulsion and coercive fiat of the organized violence of Virginia's Social Contract and imprisonment, that the conditions and the very nature of the imprisonment, not only is existing in a netherworld of selective responsibilities, but is making a mockery of the notion that the detention and confinement is not only lawful but just.

Henry "Bobilly" Gorham isn't the first Virginia prisoner to die on the betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath by Virginia's medical community, nor is he the first of those I was in solidarity with in the trenches of Virginia's hell holes. Bobilly's death and contrary to the crass hatred of Virginia's reactionaries, his immortalization, put in stark and clear relief, the intrinsic and incipient corruption of The People of Virginia's desire to exact accountability selectively, while unwilling and quite frankly simply incapable of demanding the same accountability from its institutions and those it privileges. First of all the existence of Bobilly and all the contemporary and to come Bobilly's make a mockery of the mythology Virginia's establishment recount to the implacability of facts and their revisionist impermeability. So Virginia can say it imprisoned Bobilly to his death for over 50+years and that ringing "the emperor has no clothes" voice will in perpetuity resound, 'at the expense of accountability'. Which is what Virginia's medical establishment has shamelessly sacrificed by being complicit with the unaccountable and ad hoc practices of the Virginia prison official, pursuing the idealistic impulses of the people of Virginia and the as I have presented, outside of law conditions of imprisonment. We do not ask Virginia's medical community to defend or apologize for imprisonment, but what we indict the community of, is, its cravenness and the accompanying complicity, when it sacrifices its morality and ethics at the behest of prison officials who clearly, not only are not sympathetic to the Hippocratic Oath but could care less about it. The only question before the Virginia medical community is, on whose terms?

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982