GOVERNOR SPANBERGER HAS A COUPLE OF PREACHERS ON HER VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD: WE NEED TO DO A DEEP DIVE ON WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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First of all let me establish that personally I don't have an issue or problem with Religious representatives in any governance and administrative role and positions in the Commonwealth of Virginia's Social Contract, because Religion is as any other institutional establishment expressed as value, terms and relationship of Virginia's Social Contract, notwithstanding whatever presumptions institutions of the Social Contract orient their inherent identity, they're no more than aspects of the sum and whole. With this said, let's get into, this here we go again formulation of Virginia's imprisonment scheme's recognition that Parole isn't a step child but an integral dynamic. Various narratives have in pursuit of their specific and particular intentions played footsie with Virginia's Paroling dynamic, from Virginia Republicans under Governor George Allen of the racist "macaca" infamy, who abolished it in 1995, then Virginia Democrats unable to assert that there is nothing about the Commonwealth's Justice Formulation that is absolute as such Parole, Pardons, Commutations and all its various terms are necessary because we are dealing with the human condition and being, have allowed a vacuum to persist, which reactionaries and their shortsightedness have filled with their stagnancy. Yes Religion as institution does lay claim to an idea that irrespective of its revelation, which is relatively upon the biases of its human medium, is at times beacon and at others, bane to humanity, with the responsibility as focus of the consequences being on us as humanity to point out when it is straying a field, becoming something that is antagonistic as such must be opposed and resisted. From the Pennsylvania Quakers and their polemic on the Nations imprisonment scheme, which as a matter of fact realized the entity, "Penitentiary" through, the role Religion, in its Christian and Black Muslim aspects played as embodied in Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the continuing work of perfecting the unity of the people and not to gloss over the Biblical defiance expressed by Nat Turner and John Brown, Religion has been that two-sided coin at War with itself in this work of human development, maturity and realization, speaking for us the people, then to us, at us and finally against us with everything dependent on us the People, our ability to understand and question. Which is where we are with this presence of two Religious persons, Reverend Tyrone Nelson, Pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and Bishop Kevin White of Covenant Church in Portsmouth, on this newly constituted Virginia Parole Board under the Democratic Administration of Governor Abigail Spanberger. I BEGIN:As much as Virginia's Government embodied in the Parole Board places the onus on the Virginia prisoner or imprisoned Virginian, the reality is we have to have clarity, meaning we have to accept and come to terms with certain fundamental realities of Virginia's imprisonment scheme which Parole is component. Because Virginia's imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the Indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. None of this is indictment, but what it ask is, we have to firstly come to terms with the fact that none of this has been confronted in a legitimate and practical manner on the logic that no one is flotsam.

This is what I mean by, Virginia's Imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. First of all the literal characterization of the words stand unopposed. Virginia's imprisonment scheme as it currently exist was a direct and intentional effort to undo what all the artillery and rifle shells along with saber slashes of the Civil War resulting in Lee's Appomattox surrender had settled in blood and gore. The ink wasn't dry to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of The United States and its conditional abolishment of slavery, when the traitorous losing Confederacy, which Virginia held its Presidency, expressed their incorrigibility and psychotic affinity for slavery with the prompt, exploitation of the condition for its continued existence......"except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction", with enactment of thinly veiled and concealed laws to entrap the newly freed from slavery Black People and return them to the labor, purpose of slavery. So Prison and Imprisonment across the former slave holding Confederate States, including Virginia assumed a new purpose and character as it took on a new pathway, which was conviction of violation of any of the "Black Codes" that were popping up like popcorn. Before I continue, to those who will see this talk of "slavery" and retreat to that tired and dishonest specious and spurious commentary of "all of this slavery this slavery that was in the past, in history", well besides stating the obvious which is, the existence of all of life is in history, the present or now is only a potential with the realization and substance firmly in history. Secondly the argument that slavery or any other issue is without merit, because it's of history only reveals, "exploitation", impunity and the accountability aversion which are typical of the asocial and corrupt. Thirdly as I write human beings are being slaughtered between Israel and its opponents, because of what, a narrative of history, a history that its presumptions accord ten fold the duration of American and Virginian chattel slavery and what is funny is the same minds and hearts who scurry like roaches when the kitchen switch is flipped, in declaring that the slavery critique should be abandoned are the same ones who without any hint of irony, most vociferously and violently defend and are in support of whatever logic claimed by the warring parties in the Israel and Palestine speech. Fourthly what do they think birthdays, National Independence, Anniversaries, commemorations and lastly but not least, the very thing that makes us as humans, human, our memory and memories are about? To get back to this analytical deep dive on the presence and existence of Religious representatives on the Virginia Parole Board. What I'm outlining isn't to be taken as a final word on anything. Instead I anticipate that this topic is seen as what it actually is, a Godsend opportunity to hold Virginia's imprisonment scheme accountable and its dynamics subordinate to the People of the Commonwealth, with the necessary discussion it presents. I continue: Despite the fact that I haven't presented a comprehensive account of the current dynamic of Virginia's imprisonment scheme as birthed post-Civil War, the necessary records are available for the curious.

For thousands of years the human condition and its various Social Contract expressions existed without nothing we will recognize as the postindustrial construct of Prison. Not to digress into why industrialization emerged in the embrace of the idea of Prison and its evolutionary development to our current notion, what matters to this work of critiquing the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole Board, which by the way isn't novel and that all the more demands our current scrutiny, is the fact Prison is a fairly and relatively new institution. Even Colonial Virginia despite the fact it was populated by the socio-person and human being, who over thousands of years as Homosapien has remained with the same propensities and dispositions for deviance along with what we currently catalog as criminality, didn't see fit nor necessity compel, Prison as we again currently recognize it. So what this tells us and this is contrary to that porous sophistry produced by the current class of reactionaries on the Supreme Court of The United States, that there are class of disputes that require a logic and formulation that is set in stone, which in practice is nothing more than the speech of the dictatorship of conservatism and its exploitation and deployment of political supremacy to aver, distort and hold onto a world view whose window has long past sped past the vista. Because this is exactly where we find ourselves with Virginia's tango with the Parole component of its imprisonment scheme under the assumption that what ails it, why it has an antagonistic existence with the People of The Commonwealth and the Imprisoned Virginian is it lacks the Religious world view and it's discernment. The circumstance however with Virginia's Parole dynamic has nothing to do with who dispenses it, but everything to do with the unambiguous understanding that it exist as an affirmative anticipation. To understand this we have to see Virginia's imprisonment construct as it is a Frankenstein creation while denying that Frankenstein is being shocked into animation. Because if Virginia's imprisonment scheme was structured to exploit the conditionality of the abolishment of slavery done under the wink and nod of purveyors of impunity, in other words those who fundamentally denied that the enslaved were Human, which we have the words of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's President as proof, that the...."inequality of the white and black races" was "stamped from the beginning", then imprisonment is another dimension of this "stamped from the beginning", dehumanization and no one will suggest with a straight face that Virginia's operational philosophy of its imprisonment scheme and that of the Virginia Prison official isn't dehumanization regardless of its defensive logic. The victorious Allies didn't reject the Nazi defense of "following orders" during the accountability proceedings at Nuremberg, instead they rejected it under the simple recognition that the condition of humanness, the unqualified recognition of Human Life precedes orders. The Allies understood what orders are to a soldier, hell, they were soldiers, what they rejected in the Nazis was their conditionalizing Human Life, the Allies weren't without their own hypocrisies and contradictions, but what their existence at Nuremberg in that moment in time and History tells and reveals (not that we needed anymore confirmation),is, Human Life is the denominator and its recognition is the arbiter of accountability. So what the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole board points to is, what side of the coin are we being presented with, because we cannot become real and honest about Parole as component of Virginia's imprisonment scheme if the structural basis isn't restructured, with accounting and isn't that the work of Religion?

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

PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT By William Thorpe

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Some years ago, a Judge in Northern Virginia, who was a World War II veteran said this and I paraphrase to someone convicted and was about to be sentenced, that the convicted was the most violent person he had ever encountered. If my memory serves me right the accused was convicted of stabbing someone over 70 times !,of course it was a display of violence, but that is where we begin to cut our noses off to spite our face, because the issue and question isn't about the deed or act. Okay let's get at it, the Judge was a World War II veteran !!! come on the man had been in a war that birthed and witnessed the utter transformation of human behavior, Kids, were being crucified in the Ukraine, human beings were herded into enclosures and gassed as process of extermination, so many incendiary devices were used that the very air people breathed incinerated their lungs, perdition itself walked on two legs. There wasn't an aspect, facet and expression of human behavior and capacity that wasn't on full revelatory display, violence became just a pro forma default. I can indulge in the construct of superfluousness and become as that Northern Virginia Judge who had no problem in pronouncing the commission of an over the 70 times stabbing of a human by another human as being the most violent act he had ever encountered but I'll be disingenuous.

I started this work with the title PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT, because without the honest grasp of context what we end up doing is maintaining and supporting the sisyphean toil of warring with the quixotic windmills of the specific emergence at the expense of the systemic environment that permits, allows and enables specificity in the first place. The thing is the attitude and propensity to expend labor on the specific as it relates to the issue of crime and deviance, which necessitates the prison reform formulation has value for a segment of Virginia's population. In other words people make a living off maintaining the narrative of ignoring the systemic cause of the specific deed, or to state it, the beneficiaries of the status quo narrative of criminality and its opposition to reform see the relationship as the individuation of criminality irrespective of its heinousness as a culling of the herd albeit, a controlling mechanism that ensures that primary and fundamental focus on the business of being human, which is labor or work because without work or labor the necessary circumstances and conditions for human existence are nonexistent. Here is the contradiction that matures into antagonisms that exposes the human condition of idiocy, regardless of reason. Because as soon as we accept that humanity is capable of "behavior", period without gradation then our interaction and the subsequent relations stands on "context" and it is with context that we find that we have clay feet or that idealistic protection of that metaphorical "sacred bulls" or its other colloquial feint, "boys will be boys", with the flip side being context or mitigation is rarely, seldom or never given to the subjects and objects of the status quo narrative. Or in its other expression the subjects of the controlling motive and its various mechanisms are defacto less than, "other" and practically dehumanized, because if the very presence and existence of the human condition is context based or contextual and if there is wilful and deliberate intent and effort to ignore, overlook and deny, context then humanness itself is dehumanized. This brings me back to that World War II veteran Northern Virginia Judge, who had no problem in pronouncing the convicted before him as the most violent person he had ever encountered. In human affairs we get the place and purpose of hyperbole, but hyperbole is left to the circumstances of our everyday interactions and leadership and those with its bully pulpit, which a judgeship is category shouldn't indulge in it's undisciplined suppositionary speech, because it has far reaching consequences of distortional proportions, because the quintessential value of our human condition as expressed in the various social contracts, is that perfection of the unity of the people which reform or encompassing and utilitarian speech is basis. Yes "speech" distortions whether deliberate and insidious or colloquial ignorances can and will for a period serve exploitive ends of inducing disunity among the people while constantly struggling to stay a step ahead of the inevitable and inexorable reckoning and accountability. A quick example of this is the Confederate monument to Lee on Richmond's Monument Avenue and its encounter with the inevitable reckoning because it's existence was speech of disunity, which is the same space occupied by Virginia's anti-prison reform status quo and their short sightedness. There is nothing contradictory with the people of Virginia pursuing the repair of harm, what our speech of reform asserts is, Context.

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

A COUPLE OF RECENT SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES RULINGS THAT AFFECT VIRGINIA VICTIMS OF CRIME, VIRGINIA PRISONERS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS By William Thorpe

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The first case ELLINBURG v. UNITED STATES 607 U.S.163 (2026), was a January 2026 unanimous decision by the Court with Clarence Thomas writing a separate concurrence. The case deals with Victims Restitution, specifically THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION Act of 1996 and whether as it relates to the law, if its criminal punishment and if it can be applied retroactively or EX POST FACTO. The reason it made it to the Supreme Court of The United States is there was confusion over what is considered criminal, civil actions and retroactivity or what the Constitution of United States proscribes or prohibits as EX POST FACTO application or use of a law. Clarence Thomas in his concurrence outlined the history, however much of anything Clarence Thomas says has to be considered under the ulterior purpose motive and duplicity of serving one master that only has the singular objective of denying and depriving individual agency and imposing subservience and neo-feudalism and serfdom, so analysis from Thomas is perpetually suspect. Now since the decision of ELLINBURG, The Commonwealth of Virginia nor its Federal District, the Fourth Circuit have applied it, but Federal Circuits of the 2,7,8,9,11 the D.C. Circuit and the State of Tennessee have. The Commonwealth of Virginia has its own restitution or victim compensation law at, VIRGINIA CODE TITLE 19.2-368.1 [COMPENSATING VICTIM OF CRIME] and it has been developed in cases, UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON 638 F.Supp.1202 (where it defined that additional cost are form of punishment) also in COMMONWEALTH v. PUCKETT 302 VA.455 (2023) VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT went into the formulation of restitution, then in a VIRGINIA WORKERS COMP. CLAIM at 2017 VA.WRK.COMP.LEXIS 455 IN RE:BARBARA LEE PETITT FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION FUND [and it delves into Virginia's construction of "victim" for purposes of the law].People let me say this, yes all of this is Law and to state it simply its always up to the supremacy of the political moment meaning what The People understand, will tolerate and will put up with so just because we have such and such a ruling doesn't mean no more than that's what the People, their understanding or the politics is for that moment, because who would have thought that human beings would determine then accept the logic and its ruling that some of us are outside of law, which is exactly what the Supreme Court of the United States said a few years back that a President of the United States is outside of law, notwithstanding the fact that opposition to and a rejection of the presumption that any human is outside of law was the animating and creative force of the Nation. The point is as THE PEOPLE WE MUST TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES UNDERSTAND THE THINKING AND LOGIC THAT DEFINES OUR EXISTENCE AND OUR SELF REALIZATION, IF WE ARE ACTUALLY DETERMINED ON REALIZING OUR HUMANNESS ON OUR OWN TERMS. The second case is clear forward, reactionary justices on the Supreme Court of the United States are willing to deprive and deny Prisoners unable and incapable of paying the $350 filling fee to commence suit in federal court from splitting it. The case JOHNSON v. HIGH DESERT STATE PRISON 224 L.Ed.2d 179 was denied Certiorari meaning the lower courts ruling stands.

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 FORMULATION OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE ISN'T ABOUT THE SPECULATION OF GOOD OR BAD BUT TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION COMPREHENSIVELY REALIZED By William Thorpe

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If we understand John Adams response and I paraphrase, that our Nation is of laws and not men, then the question of system-integrity or the health of the Social Contract and the relative progress stands on the clear answer of the accountability-function and this is no more evident than on the question of "Justice, Equity and the Repair of Harm", which State organized-violence and it's imprisonment function approximates satisfaction. I BEGIN: There has been a low slow burning discussion and at times debate, among strata of Virginia prison reform advocacy and its crux, is, this new and nascent Administration empaneled by Governor Abigail Spanberger at the Virginia Department of Corrections, is good intentioned. The issue as John Adams stated, if we are a nation of laws and not men, which when the people are wide awake and paying attention, we are, then whether or not the Virginia prison official is good or bad is besides the point. The point and its only relevance is to what extent is the accountability-function performing its duty. Let's get into it, professional and instituted activities and establishments of Virginia's Social Contract, have standards, regulations, licensure, procedures, rules and practices that have all the components and elements of the accountability-function and its satisfaction. What we don't see or have is the asserted assumption and its speculation of the nature-value or good or bad of the human element. The nature-value and its realization or revelation is totally dependent on its subordination to the application of the accountability-function. In other words as soon as the socio-person or human being is depending on the nature-value of humanity or as it specifically relates to this work, the Virginia prison official to do what is "good or bad", the relationship or professional behavior can only be a sum total of assumptions, suppositions and speculations, notwithstanding the existence of means of applying the accountability-function. But as it concerns the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, the primary formulation that has to be unconditionally, unambiguously, unquestionably and unequivocally affirmed is Human Life. Just because accountability can be exacted and demanded of human life doesn't mean human life is dehumanized, denigrated, denied, diminished and degraded. There is no contradiction or antagonism to be found in this simple affirmation of human life. Where we do find contradictions and antagonisms is in its dehumanization which is reflective of impunity and that supposition of we are not a nation of laws, but of men as revealed in the above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official. As soon as there is resolution of the dehumanizing philosophy of the Virginia prison official against the Virginia prisoner and its rejection, refutation and repudiation of the nature-value of the prison official, then we can correctly engage on practical realization of Virginia's accountability-function.

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

DIRTY LAUNDRY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL, FROM ASSASULT THROUGH FABRICATION OF CHARGES ON THE VIRGINIA PRISONER: WHAT VIRGINIA'S CORPORATE MEDIA WON'T TELL YOU By William Thorpe

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There is one thing the various expressions of impunity have in common--The cover and umbrella of Law. So as much as corporate media enables and amplifies propagandizing the narratives of political gambits, under the pacification of, "law and order" it is petty misdirection. Nonetheless a misdirection that is comprehensively destructive in its comprise and expenditure of the People's faith and trust in their Constituted aspirations and will. Where we clearly see this, is in the practice of the Commonwealth's Justice Infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme and its exploitation of impunity by the Virginia prison official done under the cover and umbrella of the same law that permits the prison official to professionally exist. Listed in this are claims asserted by the Virginia prisoner against the Virginia prison official of egregious and malfeasant behavior, that Virginia's corporate media rarely educates the people of Virginia of existence.

DOE v. JOYNES 2026 U.S. DIST.LEXIS 50659 LAZARUS v. ZOOK 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 44399 DAVIS v. HICKS 2026 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 49127 JOHNSON v. VA.DEP'T OF CORR.2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 26669 SPRINGER v. VA. DEP:T OF CORR.2026 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 11844 BLAKE v. SARGENT 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 19880 BRAXTON v. CASEY 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51277 COOPER v. WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 53815 LUMPKIN v. DAUGHERTY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 265958 WALL v. McCOWAN 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 191706 CROCKETT v. VIRGINIA 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 183476 [this is a claim by a Virginia prison official against injurious behavior by her colleagues] GEORGE v. BROWN 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 259131 THOMAS v. PAMUNKEY REG'L JAIL AUTH. 2025 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 184811 ALLEN v. WALKER 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 224500 CARTER v. ELY 2025 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 37499 HAIRSTON v. SHELTON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 181340 MALCOLM MUHAMMAD v. FLEMING 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 193267 THOMAS v. DOTSON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 226684 CROSBY v. MANIS 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 58824 QUEEN v. HERNANDEZ 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 82141 BROWN v. COLLIER 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 180205 CARTER v. COLLINS 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51923 WRIGHT v. VA.DEP'T OF CORR. 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 161014 DEFOUR v. WHITE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 56423 BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 VA. APP.LEXIS 550 DAVIS v. KELLER 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 175713 SNODGRASS v. RICHARDSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 53114 JOHNSON v. RAPPAHNNOCK REG'L JAIL AUTH.2024 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 102074 ANDERSON v. CLARKE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 164446 GIL v. DOE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 99609 PARSON v. Ms. UNKNOWN PALMER 2023 U.S. DIST.L EXIS 220403 MASON v. TALLEY 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 49795 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 50434 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 130088 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 53931 RIDDICK v. WHITE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 94050 RIDDICK v. MATHENA 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 46396 RIDDICK v. TRENT 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 28373 CARTER v. COLLINS 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 99160 JOHNSON v. McCOWAN 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 11824 WALL v. CLARKE 2021 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 224916 RIDDICK v. KISER 2021 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 142645 RIDDICK v. STANLEY 2021 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 147917 McCLENNY v .MEADOWS 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 221977 CARTER v .ELY 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 245331 BOONE v. EVERETT 671 FED.APPX. 864 (2016) [as an end note,to those minds who have the delusional position that prisoners are just sitting in these cages and filing any ole wily nilly claims,first of all it cost $350, to file a claim in Federal Court and the SUPREME COURT of THE UNITED STATES just made it more difficult to do so in this recent case, JOHNSON v. HIGH DESERT STATE PRISON 2026 U.S.LEXIS 1183]

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