THE KONCENTRATION KAMP RED ONION STATE PRISON VERSUS THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

Come on man, who is surprised by the recent disclosure by THE APPEAL, that the what to do brain storming of The Virginia Department of Corrections concerning the recent self-immolation by human beings under its care as prisoners at The Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, couldn't get past the tired, archaic, same ole same ole, reactionary rut unoriginality of dabbling in the speculations of aversive moral hazard accentuation. So The Appeals' reporting educates us with revelations that Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison apparatchiks or prison officials doing their what is to be done on prisoner self-immolation were focused on imposing fines, court processes and adjudication along with all sorts of bizarre speculations, for example self-immolation was means for a contact visit,(the obvious irony that setting oneself on fire is in deed suicidal simply escaped and eluded its proponent) all at the expense of the obvious stop treating Virginia prisoners barbarically and savagely. There is an old adage, if all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail. The Virginia prison official haplessly equates imprisonment with, barbarity, savagery, pain, cruelty and the dynamic of the lash on an enslaved's back, because that was its progenitor. The reality is the Virginia prison official hasn't been made to disprove it, that its reactionary, intellectual-liberal speculations and antebellum suppositions of its terms and administration of imprisonment are professionally legitimate and valid to the only point of view that matters, which is that of The People of Virginia. Okay, so what do we have, The Virginia Department of Corrections is the State largest agency with the largest budget, in other words, The People of Virginia invest more in the creation of conditions and circumstances that compel, impell and drive its imprisoned to self-immolate, than in the education, job training, health care, housing and development of positive infrastructure towards the realization of its Social Contract aspirations. What we have come to incontrovertibly realize and recognize is in all standards of measure The Virginia Department of Corrections is unaccountable, because it doesn't have to measurably prove and show anything. Its one and clear function is, a redistributor of wealth and tax payer money to locales and environments that play no role in the "creation" of money. The prison official serves and provides a retail function in Virginia's political-economy as such its only perspective is to see the Virginia prisoner as chattel, a source of provisions. Consequently the Virginia prisoner is dehumanized and the relationship with the Department is antagonistic. The Virginia prison official consistently is at war, in a state of conflict with the Virginia prisoner. Of course we are given the contradictory verbiage of maintaining order, but the maintenance of such order, its definitions and applications shouldn't be casually left to the purely and obvious economic self-interest based sophistry of the prison officials' self-assertions, particularly after the recent Supreme Court of The United States rulings on "The Chevron Doctrine", on the authority of unelected administrative officials, including prison officials. What this shows is the impunity, a lack of accountability, compromising what it means to be human in post antebellum Virginia and the dictatorial predilections of the prison official to abuse, savage and violate law. Nonetheless the Virginia prison official despite their antipathy must be reminded are still defined by the norms and standards of Virginia's Social Contract, its Law.

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

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO DEL. MICHAEL JONES (D) RICHMOND AND THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, THIS IS 2025 WE NEED A DYNAMIC POLITICS APPLYING THE "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" MAXIM TO THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL By William Thorpe

The human being is barbaric which is why we have law. The human being is savage, so we pursue civilization. The human being, as president-elect Donald Trump and Governor Glenn Youngkin have reminded and shown is nothing more than a petty hypocrite, so The Social Contract of society which The Commonwealth of Virginia is component requires accountability on the formulation of, no one is outside of its exegesis therefore justice and its application in society is it's objectification and the inexorability of accountability. Which brings us to the crossroad lattice of how to mete it out, currently Virginia exploits the gamut of criminal sanction. This work isn't intended to ferret out the antagonistic history of Virginia's justice infrastructure and its prison system but simply state that it is. The Justice Infrastructure which The Virginia Department of Corrections is legatee was egregiously and gratuitously barbaric and savage, and as descendant, The Virginia Department of Corrections has continued the psychosis and has fought tooth and nail against giving up an inch, a quarter on reform, regardless and irrespective of how pro forma, how illusory and deceptive. Let's take this 1971 case, LANDMAN v. ROYSTER 333 F.Supp. 621 that admonished and put The Virginia Department of Corrections on notice that its practices and behavior at the then Virginia State Penitentiary were unconstitutional, meaning it violated The Constitution of The United States, with this excerpted quote "A disregard of constitutional guaranties of so grave a nature as to violate the most common notions of due process and humane treatment". This was said in 1971 about the savagery of the Virginia Prison Official by a United States Federal Judge. This exposure of the barbarity of the Virginia prison official continues in a 1983 case, SHRADER v. WHITE 1983 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 15888. So let's fast forward to this 21st. century, and 2025 54 years after the exposure and admonishment of the case Landman v. Royster to the recent horrific revelations and disclosures of prisoner self-immolation from The Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison.

Awright folks, you the reader, LET THIS SINK IN, VIRGINIA PRISONERS IN THE 21st CENTURY ARE REDUCED TO THE SPEECH OF SELF-IMMOLATION !!!, in a tragic effort at making the same point Federal Judges in the 20th century scathingly made, and I paraphrase, that the Virginia Prison Official is, savage. Philistines, apologist and reactionaries among us are always quick to wrap themselves in The U.S Constitution or for purposes of this work, The Virginia Constitution while dismissing and dehumanizing its very objects. A Constitution which I'm certain didn't anticipate, expect nor envision that despite and nevertheless its cravenly, comedic and idealistic contradictions and horrific antagonisms, its "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS ....."would confront itself with the witness of Virginia prisoners processed upon its terms in the 21st century, speaking with the desperate speech of setting themselves on fire in the cages of The Commonwealth of Virginia's Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp all because The Social Contract that presumed to exact accountability of their acts and behavior, mocked and compromised the very process and terms it deployed against them, for their internment and imprisonment by sinking into that most unoriginal of human states, the, petty hypocrisy of "don't do as I do but as I say "and its default infamy of irreproachability at the expense of the faith and trust social glue of "no one is above law".Now the point is this, only the feckless Virginian, private or public citizen, will in this 21st century act as if news of the Virginia prison official behaving savagely is revelatory, when we have its insulting affront of chronicles upon chronicles, dusty volumes filled with accounts upon accounts of dirty deeds, Court cases and Virginia General Assembly records of purported accountability, over sight hearings. So the work isn't another fact finding anything. Look as prisoners under the jurisdictional process of The Commonwealth of Virginia of course we welcome the attention and focus by our Virginia Legislators, i.e, THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, then Del. Michael Jones and caucus aide Ceci Cain's recent 12/30/24 trip to the State's Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp, due to the immediate reports of prisoner self-immolation. But the point is, the State of Virginia has squandered whatever margins of good faith presumption it tenuously claimed, when the Chief Executive, our "Dear Leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin is in the vanguard of abrogating the very social glue of faith and trust in the rule of law, by his obscene cavorting with the quintessential totem of irreproachability, the convicted felon president-elect Donald Trump. So on what grounds, on what basis, what is steerage of The Commonwealth? when the seeming application of its law is its violation by its Prison Official? The only question the Virginia legislator has to answer is are they willing to act that they have in and for themselves terms of critique and exercise its authority as much as their deluded reactionary colleagues, who are intoxicated with their point of view monopolistic zealotry, which ironically mocks the function of Virginia's General Assembly as institution. We see its result, when Chadwick Dotson as Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections can "confidently" state in the 21st century that Virginia prisoners who self-immolated only burnt their legs and he isn't immediately relieved of his position and authority.

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

THE VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD IS PATRONAGE, PURE AND SIMPLE, ALONG WITH THE CRASS CORRUPTION THAT COMES WITH IT By William Thorpe

The question isn't whether The Virginia Parole Board is corrupted, but what is to be done about it. The dispensation, assignment attribution and grant of parole to prisoners, as all our other social relations and facts is fraught with corruption. A corruption, as I have in previous works posited is structurally inherent in systems as The Virginia Department of Corrections and as I will make the case, The Virginia Parole Board. To begin, The entire construct of The Virginia Justice Infrastructure is corrupted, from inception because its intended basis, historic purpose and utility has nothing to do with justice as a democratic mechanism of faith and trust in The Social Contract, its aspirations and comity. As such, the derived consequences have been, a denial that the corruption exist in the first place, subsequently efforts at, and work of reforming it has been illogically adversarial .and idealistically reactionary, a statement and revelatory fact to the actual purpose of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the entire justice infrastructure as a dedicated and devoted tool of maintaining subservient, subordinated, privileged and supremacist political-economic Social Contract facts and relations. As such the reformative and societal, We The People affirming, optimistic perspective of paroling prisoners will and destructively be at odds with the oppositionary and repressive narrative of the status quo beneficiaries, its defenders, functionaries, supporters and allies. So with this as functional lattice of The Virginia Parole Board, we begin with the Republican Administration of the disgraced "macaca"racist slurring George Allen as Governor of Virginia who idealistically abolished Parole in Virginia circa 1995.The schizophrenic history of Parole in The Commonwealth of Virginia is documented in the case BURNETTE v. FAHEY 687 F.3d. 171.

Parole being an extension of the adjudged "criminal" sentence, is subsequently exploited by political opportunist in their perpetual quest for speculative power without regard for the consequences, of which the destruction of the faith and trust in the social contract is collateral. This destruction, then begins with the accepted patronage of how The Virginia Parole Board is structured. Parole as narrative, is a philosophical social release valve, a mitigative logic, attempting to respond to the obvious antagonisms and contradictions of the justice system, giving it a veneer of enlightenment which we see defined and expressed in the various levels of Virginia and The Nation's jurisprudence and we begin with, the SENTENCING REFORM ACT of 1984 or (SRA) and a part of it's U.S. Congress debate....."are compounded by the fact that the sentencing Judges and Parole officials are consistently second guessing each other, and as a result, prisoners and the public are seldom certain about the real sentence a defendant will serve "[excerpted from DAMN THE TORPEDOES ! AN UNPRINCIPLED INCORRECT AND LONELY APPROACH TO COMPASSIONATE RELEASE 44 CARDOZA L. REV. 477 by CHRISTOPHER J. MERKEN]. I will begin to list, excerpt and quote works that will make some of my position, so I begin with asking you the reader to study the dissent by Judge Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in the case 996 F. 3d 1243, then check out these cases CONCEPCION v. United States 597 U.S.481, then to see the continuum of the madness of American Jurisprudence over the issue and role of Parole start with, from 1798 LYON'S CASE 15 F. CAS 1183, then from 1855, UNITED STATES v. NYE 27 F. CAS 210, then from 1869, UNITED STATES v. RANDLE 27 F. CAS 696,then from 1887 STATE v. SOMMERS 98 N.C.702, then from 1908 STATE v. REEDER 79 S.C.139, then pay attention to the analysis in UNITED STATES v. JOHNSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 104204.....then pay attention to this, UNITED STATES LAW WHICH NORMALLY IS A GUIDE FOR STATES AT USCS TITLE 18 sec. 3582 (a) STATES FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN IMPOSING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT...... "RECOGNIZING THAT IMPRISONMENT IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE MEANS OF PROMOTING CORRECTION AND REHABILITATION" (see TAPIA v. UNITED STATES 564 U.S.319) then focus on this "THE HEART OF THE MATTER IS THAT DEMOCRACY IMPLIES RESPECT FOR THE ELEMENTARY RIGHTS OF MEN, HOWEVER SUSPECT OR UNWORTHY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MUST THEREFORE PRACTICE FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS CAN RARELY BE OBTAINED BY SECRET, ONE-SIDED DETERMINATION OF FACTS OF RIGHTS" (excerpted from JOINT ANTI-FACIST REFUGE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S. 123) then study this "DURING THE PAST 60 YEARS THE PRACTICE OF RELEASING PRISONERS ON PAROLE BEFORE THE END OF THEIR SENTENCE HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE PENOLOGICAL SYSTEM" "RATHER THAN BEING AN AD HOC EXERCISE OF CLEMENCY, PAROLE IS AN ESTABLISHED VARIATION ON IMPRISONMENT OF CONVICTED CRIMINALS" (excerpted from MORRISEY v. BREWER 408 U.S.471) then lastly study CONCEPCION v. UNITED STATES: COMPASSIONATE DRUG SENTENCING REFORM AGAINST A CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM BUILT ON RACIALIZED SOCIAL CONTROL 101 DEN. L. REV. ONLINE 1 by MISTY L. SCHLABAUGH...... Now with the stated above I have one more point to state, The Virginia Parole Board under Virginia jurisprudence is, an administrative body acting in the role of parens patriae, meaning (Black's Law Dictionary, "the state regarded as a sovereign the state in its capacity as provider of protection to those unable to care for themselves, which under Virginia law, the Virginia prisoner at Virginia Code 8.01-2 (6) PERSON UNDER A DISABILITY..... (a) A person convicted of a felony during the period he is confined, is

To the Virginia status quo, its supporters, functionaries and allies nothing I've said about the farce and fraudulence of Virginia's Parole Board is news or an affront that needs and requires reform. Instead what they find offensive is that I've said it. But the point is the only necessary and required understanding is that of the everyday Virginian who rote and pro forma like votes into political authority the exploiters and compromisers of Virginia's Social Contract, its idea of justice, but is complicit because of social inattentiveness and the corollary ignorance, nonetheless suffers and endures its consequences. Despite the fact, the focus of this work is the idea and practice of parole, still, it encompasses the circumstances of the Social Contract which is the basis of parole as idea. We would like to think and suppose that governmental activity, which The Virginia Parole Board under the aegis of The Justice Infrastructure and The Virginia Department Of Corrections, is. Isn't choosing sides, favoring parts of society, factions of society, in otherwords isn't partisan, thereby pitting itself against itself and is in a constant war with itself, expending extreme and inordinate amounts of labor, struggling to conceal that it is partisan, but is and we see this clearly with the idea and practice of parole. Parole is a component of criminal adjudication, a process that's relative to the existence and interactivity of The Social Contract, irrespective of acceptance and subordination. Meaning it's in service of and a requisite for the civilization of society. However due to the historical perversion and political-economic denigration of humanness and its value, the justice process of Virginia society then assumes a function of idealistic social control, undermining its progressive aspirations. So what we encounter is the opposite to what The Supreme Court of The United States instructed in JOINT ANTI-FASCIST REFUGE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S 123 that "THE HEART OF THE MATTER IS THAT DEMOCRACY IMPLIES RESPECT FOR THE ELEMENTARY RIGHTS OF MEN, HOWEVER SUSPECT OR UNWORTHY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MUST THEREFORE PRACTICE FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS CAN RARELY BE OBTAINED BY SECRET, ONE-SIDED DETERMINATION OF FACTS DECISIVE OF RIGHTS" and The Virginia Parole Board, The Virginia Department Of Corrections, the entire purported oversight mechanisms of The Commonwealth of Virginia systemically violate it in principle and in deed. Notwithstanding the gibberish sophistry swallowed hook and sinker, by The Virginia media in its misleading articulation of the fraudulent and farcical activities and behavior of all three levels of The Commonwealth's Government, beginning with the patronage of the Virginia Executive in peopling The Virginia Parole Board, the Virginia citizenry still have the social responsibility of understanding what is being done and implemented in their name. If the Virginia citizenry are funding with their tax receipts, the existence and function of The Virginia Parole Board and if the very idea and purpose of parole, is to release the imprisoned yet what we experience is the parole board failing to do what tax payers are paying it to do then its fraud and must be understood as such. The idea that people, government officials tasked with determining the quintessential speculative enterprise of parole, a process that's corrupted from inception due to its askant view of objective methodologies can then attempt to side step its obligations with the most insulting of logic, that prisoners haven't performed or satisfied such and such conditions only reinforces what we already know.

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

THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HISTORICALLY HAS A SICK AND POOR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY SO ANDREA SAPONE AS THE FIRST, UNDER THE NEW STATUTORILY CREATED CORRECTIONS OMBUDSMAN HAS A CLEAR TASK By William Thorpe

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The relationship a government has "off" The People, is a simple one and The Commonwealth Of Virginia isn't an exception. When principles of authority were wrenched from the English King John towards it's realization through the historic Magna Carta, on which The Commonwealth of Virginia, as The United States, assumes Social Contract or viz Law and its process as a form and version of relationship, OFF THE PEOPLE, it's simplicity of governance and The People attained a level of relative social maturity, in the specific context of, a revelatory application of social truth, accountability and transparency. Let me make this point, regardless of and irrespective of class distinctions in society and for purpose of this work, Virginia society, the relationships and interactions not only are among The People, but are The People. This point has to be made, because without the responsibility of its understanding, The People, Virginians have this blissful amnesiac indulgence of a presumed lack of complicity and culpability for the derived social horrors and harms done in their name. The Virginia Department Of Corrections, as function of governance and government is a social truth of that relationship, Off The People, along with all of the attendant deviations, subsequently its relationship with the people has that paradoxical nature of while acting on their behest, in their name, yet betraying its surrogate basis, thereby introducing a compromising fact and tyrannical circumstance, that is a natural consequence of that blissful amnesiac indulgence.

Our ancients instructed that the knowledge and understanding of the administration and management of the processes or the inner workings of a government, a State's Social Contract, its Law, not laws, but, Law which in this case, The Commonwealth of Virginia are 'secrets', as such are the most essential, significant and fundamentally educative. So those employed in its administration as functionaries of the processes or its gate keepers, in essence "bouncers" a la your typical nightclub are the possessors of the 'secrets', revealing and sharing with some of WE THE PEOPLE, at the omissive expense of the rest. An activity of our corrupt typical humanness expressed with all of our intrinsic proclivities, inclinations, predilections, biases, prejudices, sanctimony and suppositions.(What I mean by, our corrupt typical humanness is this, the human is a model of approximation and assumption as such our activity is relative and revisionist, see this case: MOSCHETTI v. OFF. OF. THE INSPECTOR GEN. 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 215863, Jennifer Moschetti was a former investigator employed with The State Inspector General of Virginia in other words she was a possessor of 'secrets' ,she was fired over the parole matter of VINCENT L. MARTIN, convicted of killing a Richmond cop. This case is instructive, because it was about The Virginia Parole Board's alleged violation of its process in the matter of a convicted cop killer, of which the office of State Inspector General was anonymously tipped. Now The Office of State Inspector General has its statutory authority from Virginia Code 2.2-309, which is broad and comprehensive in its scope. Keep in mind what I've said about the performance of governmental functionaries in possession of State secrets and their selectivity of revelation, in other words whom of We The People are permitted function. So just as the, Moschetti case was about the pursuit of an anonymous tip in the parole matter of a cop killer, the office of State Inspector General has been sent countless claims by Virginia prisoners of Virginia prison official abuse which hasn't and didn't receive the relative attention as the parole matter of a cop killer. Here is another reference point of activities of possessors of State secrets, to excerpt one of my previous works, from June 26, 2023 titled "EXPLOITING VICTIMS OF CRIME AND SCAPEGOATING VIRGINIA'S PAROLE PROCESS: THE BACKWARDNESS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER THREE (2022) One of the first things a newly sworn in Glenn Youngkin as Governor....felt was the most pressing....was to sign Executive Order Number Three (2022) styled RESTORING INTEGRITY AND CONFIDENCE IN THE VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD AND THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF JUSTICE, on January 15, 2022. "Now this Executive Order by a newly sworn in Youngkin was again in reaction to the parole matter of Vincent L. Martin, again exemplifying, some Virginians are valued more than others. Because let's fast forward to 2024 and another case and instance of Virginia Parole Board violations, as formalized in accounts specifically a October 14, 2024 letter by The ACLU of VIRGINIA, stating that the Parole Board is in violation of Virginia Code 53.1-136 and also HB 2169 and SB 1361, to which we haven't seen any level of activity comparable to the allegations in the parole matter of Vincent L. Martin) So these functionary possessors of 'secrets' of The Commonwealth of Virginia, in other words its human embodiment of Law and it's processes are the corrupted factor and aspects of when we say, The Virginia Department of Corrections has a sick and poor relationship with the truth, accountability and transparency. The point is this, if its understood hence accepted that omniscience is just that a point of sophistic critique then, the first order of business in all things human and our Social Contract or Law, is the pursuit and objectification of transparency, (which to you opportunistic invokers of God and religion, the Nazarene's crucifixion narrative deals with, as the asserted event of, the temple veil being rent or ripped to reveal or make transparent what was hidden, see, Matthew 27:51 "Then, behold,the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom", also at Mark 15:38 "then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom "also at Luke 23:45 ".....,and the veil of the temple was torn in two") which as it relates to the work of reforming The Virginia Department Of Corrections, is a requisite of "oversight" or the duty of our Virginia legislative and political leaders, exacting accountability of The Department. So as it relates to Andrea Sapone, the new Corrections Ombudsman, her position as a new statutory creation itself is a gimmick, because Virginia Code 2.2-309 as authority for the already existing Virginia's Office of State Inspector General provided the necessary investigatory mechanisms to do the work of holding The Virginia Department Of Corrections accountable, however because of the phenomenon of selectivity of whom of We The People are worthy of function from those proximate functionaries, or bureaucrats administering and managing the functions of Virginia's government, of which, the State Inspector General is, Virginia prisoners claims against the Virginia prison official are relatively ignored. There is another category of possessors of secrets of the inner workings of The Commonwealth, whom are the elected representatives of the people or We The People, who also perform the duty of oversight of The Virginia Department of Corrections selectively. For starters, Virginia Code 53.1-30 (A) states what Virginia authorities are allowed entry into Virginia prisons, whom are, The Governor, members of The Legislator and Attorneys. Secondly, our legislators in fulfillment of their oversight duties of The Virginia Department of Corrections have investigative authority into any and all aspects and functions of The Department. So when we see our Political Leaders and Legislators as Delegates Holly Seibold, Marcus Simon, The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, Senators Dave Marsden, Lamont Bagsby, Majority Leader Scott Surovell and Barbara Favola, expressing their conscientiousness, their hand wringing over the barbarity and savagery of The Virginia Department of Corrections on their watch. The question isn't if they have and possess the authority, to wrangle accountability onto The Department and the Virginia prison official, but whether We The People, in whose name good and evil of Government are transfigured will acknowledge complicity and assert that the application of Justice isn't mere petty crass abuse. When Governor Glenn Youngkin, along with The State Inspector General, The Virginia Republican Party as foot soldier and their usual ally corporate media, seized upon the parole matter of a cop killer as critique gambit of parole as fact of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure. The, We The People gawked some in classic understandable ignorance while others as our elected representatives, possessors of the secret or the inner workings of government, averted eyes holding breath that their betrayed constituencies wouldn't call them out.

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

WHO SPEAKS FOR APRIL WRIGHT?: IT SURE ISNT HER TAXES SUPPORTED GOVERNMENT, WHO IS THE ONE TRAUMATIZING HER By William Thorpe

*Pictures are taken from the internet and are used for illustrative purposes only"

You know this stuff The Virginia Department Of Corrections, is doing is beyond castigation. Every other day revelations of horrors upon horrors of The Virginia Prison Officials' misdeeds are like a miasmic toxicity attacking, laying siege to whatever notion and idea of society we delude our selves of possessing and what is even more corrupting than that is the simple realization that government, our Commonwealth Of Virginia government can put a stop to it with the simple "enough is enough", because if no one is above the law, then the prison official who has the privileged presumption of its execution sure as hell isnt. So here we are with the latest revealed horror of the Virginia Prison official's misdeed in the form of the trauma and anguish of a Virginia Mother, April Wright, whose son, Austin Arocho is imprisoned under the "legal" supervision and speculative care of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, The Virginia Department of Corrections and its Koncentration Kamps gulag. Austin Arocho for whatever its worth was processed under the justice system. (I need to state this, my 'for whatever its worth' declarative is simply this, the acceptance and faith in the, equality under law, presumption of Virginia's Social Contract, has been quite frankly, violated, compromised, mocked and broken, when Glenn Youngkin in the capacity as Virginia Governor chose to stand with, support and endorse a convicted felon, who is currently the president-elect of the United States, yes Donald Trump. A spectacle that not only betrayed the trust The Virginian should have in law, but it also challenged and undermined the trust citizens of a Sister State, New York, have in their own polity and law, by the corrupt amplification of Donald Trump's gibberish assertions. In so many words what we now have isn't that once upon a time dismissed critique of the marginalized of a tiered justice system, but the unmasked "might is right" default of the "tooth and claw" nature of our human condition. So thanks to our "Dear Leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin, Virginia's Justice Infrastructure henceforth has a big fat asterisked result.) The matter of April Wright's son Austin Arocho, starts with an incident at one of Virginia's Koncentration Kamps,Wallens Ridge State Prison.On June 2024 it is alleged that prison officials at Wallens Ridge assaulted Arocho while he was handcuffed and shackled. On July 2024 Arocho was transfered to another one of Virginia's Koncentration Kamps, the sister to Wallens Ridge, Red Onion State Prison,which recently had the entire world scratching heads in befuddlement at what was going on that prisoners confined in its cages were opting self-immolation. Arocho's experience upon arrival was the usual sadism,barbarity and savagery of being placed in a stripped cell, where he was naked, starved, denied outside exercise, verbally abused, in other words the usual Red Onion prison official behavior,which Federal courts in the Western District of Virginia are inundated with its claims.Subsequently Arocho according to his mother, April Wright attempted suicide by hanging.Then on November 2024 Arocho was transfered to a purported mental health prison operated by The Virginia Department of Corrections, Marion Treatment and this prison has its own distinct record of barbarity, savagery and prisoner deaths and according to Arocho's mother April Wright, her son hasn't been allowed to communicate with her, because she'd have heard from him but hasn't and considering its record of prison official misdeeds, she's devastatingly worried.

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

Fixing Virginia's Prison System Requires Reforming Our Biases, Prejudice...

During 2022 Virginia State Senator Jennifer Boysko (D) visited 4 Virginia Prisons because as she told the BlueVirginia.US [The] "Need to address some of the challenges." By William Thorpe

Our Loved Ones and Us

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Some of our members ask what do we do about issues and problems facing our loved ones in the system.

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Virginias new corrections ombudsman will prioritize investigating Virginia's Red Onion State Prison

Dec 18, 2024

Virginia's new corrections ombudsman will prioritize investigating Red Onion State Prison, where allegations of mistreatment, prolonged isolation, and self-harm have sparked concern. Andrea Sapone, the state's new corrections ombudsman, announced that her office will prioritize investigating conditions and safety at Red Onion State Prison, which has faced scrutiny after a 2023 hunger strike and six self-immolations this year.By vapac

Dozens of Prisoners Allege a Culture of Violence by Guards at Federal Facility in Virginia By The Marshall Project

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Marcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door. Locked in the most isolated unit at Lee federal prison in western Virginia, he knew that sound meant officers were readying to shackle another man to a concrete slab and leave him there for hours — as they had done to him weeks prior. Santiago was left with open wounds from the restraints on his ankles, and the sharp pain of a broken rib.

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Over nearly 24 hours on July 4, 2022, Santiago heard muffled thuds and screams from the adjacent cell. It sounded like guards were following the same playbook he said they’d used on him: beating him in his torso with their fists, slamming their riot shields into his body and twisting his hands and feet. In between guards’ visits, Santiago talked to the man through the air vents in their cells.

Santiago asked for his name and prison register number, and tried to distract him from the searing pain in his limbs. Not long after that prisoner was moved out, another person was taken to cell 201 — a younger man from Puerto Rico, who asked Santiago to call his mother and tell her what happened to him.

Santiago wrote down his name and number too — in code, in case officers found his notes. Throughout the summer of 2022, even after he returned to the general prison population, Santiago kept gathering names of people who said they had been shackled and beaten, and those who had heard their screams.

Collectively, their accounts describe a pervasive culture of racism and violence in the prison’s Special Housing Unit, a separate tier where people are locked down for nearly 24 hours a day. Numerous lawsuits examined by The Marshall Project and NPR allege that officers smashed incarcerated people’s faces into concrete walls and broke their teeth, ground down their feet and legs with steel-toed boots, kicked and groped their testicles, and cut off their dreadlocks and ripped off their beards. One man now requires the use of a wheelchair as a result of abuse at Lee, his lawsuit said.

“When I think about what they did to me it just fills me with rage,” Santiago said in a phone call from a different federal penitentiary, in California. He sued federal prison officials in January 2023. “I’ve been in prison for 22 years now. There’s abuse in every prison, but I’ve never witnessed anything like Lee.”

In an email, Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Emery Nelson said the agency “does not comment on anecdotal accusations,” conditions of confinement for any individual or ongoing lawsuits. He said employees may be prosecuted if they are found to use brutality or physical violence. “The vast majority of our employees are hardworking, ethical, diligent corrections professionals, and want those engaging in misconduct held accountable,” he wrote.

The president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1405, which represents officers at Lee, did not comment for this story.

The Marshall Project reviewed 17 federal lawsuits filed in the last five years and spoke with over two dozen people with knowledge of Lee. Nine of those suits, including Santiago’s, were filed with the help of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, a D.C.-based legal nonprofit, and D.C.-based law firm Gilbert LLP.

The violence at the prison has continued despite federal officials’ vow to crack down on mistreatment across all Bureau of Prisons facilities, lawyers representing the prisoners said.

The same summer Santiago and others ended up in shackles, the bureau appointed a reform-minded director, Colette Peters. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this July, Peters reiterated her commitment to “address employee misconduct” and increase resources to investigate abuse.

The complaints at Lee mirror accounts from what was then a federal penitentiary, USP Thomson in Illinois, especially the overuse of four-point restraints. After a 2022 investigation by The Marshall Project and NPR uncovered significant abuse and violence in Thomson’s Special Management Unit, the bureau closed that unit in February 2023. The inspector general for the Justice Department is currently investigating the use of restraints across all federal prisons.

Abuse at Lee “is not a well-kept secret,” said Kristin McGough, who previously ran the prisoners’ rights team at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee. “They have a protocol,” she said of the officers in the Special Housing Unit. “There’s no real attempt to hide what they’re doing. If anything, things are getting worse.”

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Bureau policy says restraints are to be used as a last resort to gain control of someone who is a threat to themselves, others or government property. The policy also dictates that “an employee may not use brutality, physical violence, or intimidation toward inmates, or use any force beyond that which is reasonably necessary to subdue an inmate.”

But inside the Special Housing Unit at Lee, officers seemed to follow a pattern that violated those policies, according to dozens of testimonies and the lawsuits. People were walked backward and bent over at the waist into a cell and dressed in paper clothes. In the last few years, many said they were also given a helmet before the assault began. Then they were cuffed at the wrists and ankles and chained at the waist, and made to kneel on the cement floor facing the wall while officers beat them with their fists and shields. Some were also put in four-point restraints, where every limb was chained to a concrete slab.

According to Nelson, the bureau spokesperson, prisoners may be given protective headgear “for their protection only.” Paper clothing must be approved in writing by a warden, he wrote, and should be issued only when a prisoner uses regular clothing in a way that “poses a threat.”

Former prisoners at Lee said it was difficult to speak out about the abuse while they were there, as they felt a constant threat of retaliation from guards. Officers often refused to provide them with grievance forms, or intentionally delayed or lost their paperwork, cutting them off from their only real chance at recourse, according to lawsuits. Multiple people said they were only given a pencil in solitary confinement, but the forms had to be filled out in pen.

Under federal law, prisoners can’t sue the bureau without first going through each step of the prison’s remedy process, starting with filing a grievance. That creates another legal hurdle for plaintiffs, who have to prove they were denied access to the grievance system on top of their other claims.

Santiago believes it was his attempt to file grievances and sue over other issues that made him a target for abuse in the first place. In an incident report, officers wrote that he was moved to the Special Housing Unit after refusing to return to his housing unit, and that he was put in restraints for violently resisting. Santiago denies this.

He said officers tried in multiple ways to keep him from creating a paper trail of what happened. “They do everything in their power to block you,” he said. He began sending copies of every form to his sister Jackie Gutierrez, in case officers destroyed his files.

In a motion to dismiss Santiago’s lawsuit, federal lawyers representing prison staff wrote that “each of the Defendants deny the Amended Complaint’s serious and disturbing allegations.” They argued Santiago’s case failed to follow the prison’s administrative remedy process. The court has yet to rule on their request.

Prisoners at Lee said staff targeted them for a variety of reasons. Some were singled out because of sex offenses on their record, or if they were accused of masturbating in front of staff. But others said they were assaulted after more innocuous encounters, like asking for medical help or to see a psychologist.

After being denied his medication, Ryan Amelia experienced a psychotic episode at Lee in August 2023. He hit the emergency distress button, prompting a fight with his cellmate. According to his lawsuit, that’s when officers pepper-sprayed him, pulled him out of his cell and took him to the Special Housing Unit, where he was locked in four-point restraints. Over the three days he was left chained to a concrete block, he went in and out of consciousness. Officers sporadically came to slam him with their riot shields or break his toes, the complaint says.

When Amelia was finally released, there were wounds on his wrists and ankles. His limbs were so weak he couldn’t raise his arms or walk, forcing him to shuffle around his cell on his knees. Medical records show he started losing weight and an oozing ulcer, over an inch wide, opened on his left ankle.

More than two months after he was restrained, Amelia was hospitalized for severe pain and a softball-sized bump that had developed on his hip. Doctors discovered that the infection in his ankle had led to septic arthritis in his joints, medical records show. Despite multiple surgeries, the infection remains in his bone. He will need to be on antibiotics for the rest of his life and will never walk on his own again, his lawsuit states.

“If it ever gets into my blood it will kill me,” Amelia said of the infection, in a phone call from a different penitentiary. He needs his cellmate to help him with tasks such as putting on his shoes. He suffers constant pain, and a doctor has recommended he be transferred to a federal medical facility. “Because of what they did, and what they let go at Lee County, I won’t ever be able to get out of a wheelchair,” Amelia said.

He filed his lawsuit in October. Lawyers for the Bureau of Prisons have not responded to the complaint.

“If any of us were to do anything close to what they did, we would be sitting in prison,” Amelia said of the guards. “I would like to think they would be held accountable.”

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The U.S. Penitentiary Lee sits in Appalachia, near the Virginia borders with Tennessee and Kentucky. The nearby town, Pennington Gap, has a population of about 1,600. Lee County is nearly 94% White.

The staff at Lee penitentiary is 98% White, according to the bureau, and multiple people said that guards seemed to be especially hostile to Black prisoners — who make up 62% of the prison’s population. “That was the only institution I’ve been to where the White staff don’t have a problem calling a Black dude a N-word,” said Cinquan Umar Muhammad, who was at Lee from 2015 to 2019. Dentavia McNair said officers cut off his dreadlocks and used the racial slur while kicking him and punching him in the face, as he was held in restraints in September 2023.

“Lee County was the worst,” said McNair, who was released from prison in October. “That’s an experience I don’t want to see nobody go through. It’s traumatizing.”

Anthony Harrell was incarcerated at Lee in the summer of 2020, as protests over George Floyd’s murder exploded across the country. In court records and interviews, Harrell said staff targeted him after he pushed back on their decision to turn off the televisions showing news coverage of the growing protests. Once he was led into the Special Housing Unit, “They kicked me, punched me, called me the N-word, said, ‘Fuck George Floyd,’ ‘Fuck Black Lives Matter,’ ‘Can you breathe now?” Harrell said. He was left in four-point restraints for nearly 30 hours, he wrote in a lawsuit. “I wondered if they were going to kill me.”

Harrell sued soon after, but the suit was thrown out for not following the bureau’s administrative grievance process. He was released from prison in 2022. “I never felt hate in my life before that day,” he said of his time in restraints. “When you have guys you’re trying to rehabilitate, you don’t lock them in a cage and kick them for years. That’s not making society safer.”

Nelson stressed that bureau policy forbids officers from using “profane, obscene or abusive language,” or acting in a way that is “demeaning” to incarcerated people.

Most of the violence happened in spaces without cameras, prisoners said, or in rooms where the cameras were covered up. Under bureau policy, nurses are required to record video of their medical assessments of prisoners in restraints. But people incarcerated at Lee said they were threatened by officers and told to report “no injuries” on camera when medical staff asked.

“They were on a rampage that summer, putting people in four-points and beating their ass,” said Bruce Altenburger, who was being held in the Special Housing Unit from May to December of 2022. He was held in restraints for nearly 24 hours, he said. “It felt like every night you would hear a man in four-points screaming.”

Some of the abuse escalated to sexual assault, according to lawsuits and interviews with incarcerated people. Two men said officers put fingers or mop handles in their anus while they were in the Special Housing Unit, according to letters and legal complaints. At least 10 people said their genitals were groped or injured while restrained.

According to Bureau of Prisons records, five official complaints were filed at Lee under the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act from 2021 to 2023. The records don’t provide details of the allegations. None were substantiated.

Prisoners at Lee said officers weren’t the only threat. Many said employees ignored, or even intentionally stoked, violence between cellmates. Four people have died by homicide at Lee in the last five years, according to the state medical examiner.

After Amelia was released from restraints, he was beaten by his cellmate for the next two weeks at the urging of officers, according to Amelia’s lawsuit. The cellmate smothered him with “blankets, clothing, a sheet rope, and eventually, his hands,” until Amelia lost consciousness. The lawsuit says the man was given “additional privileges, such as books and additional time on the phone, in exchange for assaulting and torturing Mr. Amelia.”

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Cathy Thompson was working in the bureau’s national Psychology Services branch in 2022 when she started hearing concerning stories about Lee from other psychologists. Prisoners were being transferred from Lee to other facilities, especially Atlanta, and telling staffers about their mistreatment. Thompson planned a visit to Lee penitentiary to review operations, especially regarding accounts of sexual abuse. But weeks before the trip was scheduled, officials canceled the visit.

“I think [they] phrased it like, ‘Now’s not a good time,’” said Thompson, who retired from the bureau last year. “I was just furious. Because what I had heard was so distressing. If 25% of the allegations were true, if even one of the allegations were true, it was too much.”

Nelson, the bureau spokesperson, would not comment on Thompson’s account. He wrote that a site visit was conducted at Lee in October 2023, but would not provide further detail.

The conditions described at Lee have persisted for years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Corrections Information Council, a watchdog for prisons where D.C. residents are held. The group issued a report in 2019 that found accounts “of staff violence were many and varied.”

Investigators wrote, “Throughout the facility, inmates the CIC spoke with expressed concerns about a culture of violence extending to facility leadership, and including staff both perpetrating and encouraging violence against inmates.” Half of respondents said they had been “harassed, threatened or abused” by staff there. Many reported being afraid of retaliation if they even spoke to investigators about conditions.

Anthony Thomas was incarcerated at Lee in 2018 and worked as a custodian in the Special Housing Unit. “You see blood. I had to clean up urine and feces just because they’d been in there so long and they won’t let you use the bathroom,” he said of the prisoners who were held in restraints. “If you’re crying, they’re gonna keep coming in and messing with you.”

According to Nelson, prisoners in restraints should be given the opportunity to use the toilet every two hours unless the person is “continuing to actively resist or becomes violent while being released from the restraints.”

In a response to the D.C. group’s findings, a Justice Department official called them “unsubstantiated allegations” based on a “small percentage” of prisoners. The official reiterated bureau policy on the use of force and noted that staff received yearly training on the issue.

The bureau updated its use of force policy this summer, to specify that officers have an “affirmative duty to intervene” and stop or prevent abuse, and that restraints may not be used “in a manner that causes unnecessary physical pain or extreme discomfort.” Anyone who uses excessive force could face criminal charges, the policy states.

Also this July, President Joe Biden signed a law that would create an independent ombudsman to field complaints from federal prisoners. The statute also requires regular inspections of bureau prisons, especially “higher risk” facilities.

Throughout Santiago’s time at Lee, he and his sister Jackie Gutierrez continued to gather stories of people who said they had been assaulted there. Gutierrez started calling their wives, mothers and sisters. They both started writing to senators, representatives, judges and the NAACP. In total, they gathered the names of more than 50 people who had been incarcerated at Lee and said they had experienced or witnessed widespread abuse. Many of those prisoners would go on to file lawsuits against the bureau.

“I am trying to get help re: the torture/abuse/beatings/threats at USP Lee,” Santiago wrote in a November 2022 letter to U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who represents Virginia. “My life is in danger and I do not want my sister to have to plan my funeral.”

In an email, a spokesperson for the senator said they forwarded Santiago’s letter to the Bureau of Prisons.

After Santiago sued prison officials, he was transferred out of Lee and to Victorville penitentiary in Southern California two months later. Another man at Lee who had worked with Santiago continued collecting testimonies and working with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

McGough, the former attorney for the committee, hopes their lawsuits might bring an end to the violence at Lee.

“People just want to serve their time in peace,” she said. “Nobody is trying to get out of prison, these folks just want this abuse to stop. There’s lasting trauma that no amount of money in the world can ever repay.”

By The Marshall Project

WHAT DOES GOD AND THE DEVIL HAVE TO DO WITH THE MALFEASANCE, MALVERSATION, IMPUNITY, EXTRA-JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR OF CHADWICK DOTSON, DIRECTOR OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND HIS COLLEAGUE EMPLOYEES By William Thorpe

*Pictures are taken from the internet and are used for illustrative purposes only"

First of all, let me state this, let me say it again yes Director Chadwick Dotson and his colleague employees are professionally corrupt, but their corruption doesn't exist independent of The People of Virginia. Yes the average Virginian is ignorant of what is done by its government in their name, which The Virginia Department Of Corrections is. Nonetheless, Virginia as collective is culpable. The dust hasn't settled over the unfathomable and unconscionable recent incidents of Virginia prisoners pursuing self-immolation as speech, despite the fact that, those usual enabling suspects have been double-timing their efforts at sweeping it under that tired and worn rug of "irreproach" of Chadwick Dotson and co. So once again we have experienced Virginia's mainstream and for profit corporate media continuing it's "fifth column" work by pushing the adversarial or anti-The People partisan labor of being a status quo petty functionary and Virginia Department of Corrections Shill. Of course this description of Virginia's media, is accurate and apt, its more than enough that those executives, reporters, commentators and opinion-columnist running The Commonwealth's media are seldom called to account for what and in whose interest is for example, parroting the obscene and clearly insane explanatory defense offered by the hapless and clearly in over his head Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Chadwick Dotson, that prisoners under his supervision and care where not engaging in the desperate speech of self-immolation, because they only managed to set their legs on fire?.I mean a type of demographic of Virginian have been regularly and systemically eviscerated by those same well fed and shiny faced corporate media executives for attitudes and less behavior than Director Dotsons'.Yet when Chadwick Dotson does it, presents a logic so spurious that neither God and the devil would dare with a straight face embrace, our media, true to their petty functionary fifth columnism not only are pathetically silent, but craven in challenging its malfeasant and insidious brazenness. Let me for the whatever time say this, our critique and polemic against Chadwick Dotson and Co. Isn't adverse to and against the requisite accountability expected of "We The People", as dynamic of The Social Contract in other words, we accept and understand the "responsibility" factor of our human condition. What we oppose is that mockery of "equal under law "and its "above law "practice engaged in and weaponized by status quo hypocrisy and enabled by the craven media. Facts are facts independent and regardless of circumstance. So despite the expenditure of treasure and labor in pursuing what the mythical Chinese writer of two thousand years ago, either the 4th or 6th B.C, LAO-TZE in his seminal work, THE TAO TEH KING or THE TAO AND IT'S CHARACTERISTICS, told us or rather instructed at part one, pp 8 (2) THEREFORE THE SAGE, IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS GOVERNMENT EMPTIES THEIR MINDS, FILLS THEIR BELLIES, WEAKENS THEIR WILL AND STRENGTHEN THEIR BONES (continues at) (3) HE CONSTANTLY (TRIES TO) KEEP THEM WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE AND WITHOUT DESIRE, AND WHERE THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE TO KEEP THEM FROM PRESUMING TO ACT (ON IT) WHEN THERE IS THIS ABSTINENCE FROM ACTION, GOOD ORDER IS UNIVERSAL (then it continues at )part two (65.1) THE ANCIENTS WHO SHOWED THEIR SKILL IN PRACTISING THE TAO DID SO, NOT TO ENLIGHTEN THE PEOPLE, BUT RATHER TO MAKE THEM SIMPLE AND IGNORANT.(continues at) (2) THE DIFFICULTY IN GOVERNING THE PEOPLE ARISES FROM THEIR HAVING MUCH KNOWLEDGE..... and folks what I've just excerpted from a 2000 year old book is exactly the state of affairs in Governor Glenn Youngkin's Virginia, where the media is actively complicit in keeping us the people ignorant and simple minded to the savagery and barbarity of The Virginia Prison System as governed and administered by the Chadwick Dotson and Co. Regime.

We shouldn't simply accept the Public Safety invocation by Director Chadwick Dotson and Co. as some sort of shibboleth carte Blanche, a get out of jail absolution, excusing away Virginia Department Of Corrections practices that are unconditionally backwards, reactionary, idealistic, gratuitously violent and dehumanizing, once again under the arbitrary rubric of "public safety". Look folks this illustrates and outlines the work of reforming Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the Prison system. The practice of any governing and political authority declaring designation of activity under its specific and particular self-interest isn't novel, for instance what was the declared designation of the means of the ascribed "terror" of The French Revolution? It was THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY and The French administration of it's organized revolutionary violence under the banner and bureaucracy of "public safety" wasn't and as The Commonwealth of Virginia is reminding us via its arbitrary and speculative invocation by Chadwick Dotson and Co. isn't and won't be the last in our human condition, that it is used at the expense of and the "faith" in the variegated terms and acceptance of Social Contract or "equality under law". The rule is when government, is confronted with, which The Virginia Department of Corrections is, that inevitable corruption inherent and intrinsic to its philosophical supposititious and speculations, by its above the law and extra-judicial behavior as currently evidenced by and presented in stark relief by all the pretzel bending and shape shifting mockery of its own premises, it resorts to that most lawless and undemocratic of reactions, the usurpation and appropriation of word utility. So naturally and consequently we see and have Chadwick Dotson and Co. deploying and maximally exploiting it as defense to the savagery and barbarity of their actions. I'm quite sure and certain that none of our political leaders and legislators dare claim omniscience, neither does the Virginia citizenry and whether or not the psychosis of supremacism and megalomania lurks under the rocky havens of our holdover compatriots is besides the point and irrelevant, the facts are laws as parameters and definitions of The Social Contract are constantly being changed, repealed and revised which are proof of our fallibility, hell even the Biblical God expressed fallibility through revision as second guessing of what was done. I make this point to convey that we are on solid ground and footing in our challenge of the appropriated utility of "public safety" as exploited by Virginia prison officials in their efforts at compromising accountability and the requisite transparency for the application of "faith" in the rule of law and its process. Now the responsibility of the Virginia citizenry, The People is to sharpen focus and attention on all that is being done in their name by The Virginia Department Of Corrections because if prisoners under the supervision and care of Chadwick Dotson and Co. have to resort to the desperate speech of self-immolation, as we recently have experienced, to which Chadwick Dotson and Co. dismissed, under their corruption of the, what is Public Safety utility, The People have only one question, whose?.

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