YES FOR OUR WORK OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA WE NEED CRITIQUE AMONG OURSELVES By William Thorpe

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The reason the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and its concurrent reform of imprisonment in Virginia, is herculean is because we have to shed ourselves of all the backwards thinking and concepts that have determined our idea of self and in extension how we see and are with the terms we are on and the relationship we have with The Commonwealth's Social Contract. How many Virginia families with members Imprisoned have thoughtlessly supported, endorsed and defended the savage and barbaric behavior of the Virginia prison official of meticulously and comprehensively dehumanizing their imprisoned family member by voting for Politicians who implicitly and explicitly provided cover for the Virginia prison official by philosophizing, justification for the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner? Still though we don't indict the people of Virginia for their thoughtlessness, what we will indict over is the unwillingness and reluctance by the people to accept that the only responsibility as duty is to pay attention, because as soon as we start paying attention we are 99% of the way to realizing Prison Reform. Because during the political debates and discourses of "who wants to assume leadership of the People", we can correctly frame questions as is needed to expose all those multitudes of flies in the ointment of all that is being done in the name of THE PEOPLE, because without the people there is no system, there is no one to be violated, there is no one to be subjected to hypocrisies, there is no one to be ruled, subjugated, controlled, there is no one for the feeble, small and idealistic minds to preen for, in so many words if no one is buying into the contradictory and antagonistic b.s, there is no need for the narratives as set in stone constructs of Virginia's Social Contract, then because we are paying attention we can honestly to the best of our ability exercise equality under law and its unity of the people. Currently the impunity of the Virginia prison official has two tracks, (1) the individual prison official's inherent disposition to savagery, sadism and masochism, then (2) the inherent systemic and structural corruption that is the system proper. Forever indicating and pointing out the impunity has been the work of reform advocacy. I think its time I addressed this point, there is that existing critique that the analysis and its speech of reform is diametrically opposite that of revolution and as a matter of fact the speech of reform is in service of and in collaboration with the status quo and if the strategy of reform is honest, with the clarity of doing the peoples work, the speech will be that of revolution. Well whether or not I'm in agreement or disagreement with either formulation is besides the point, the only aspect and element that is relevant in any Social Contract and for purposes of prison reform in Virginia, is the realization of the accountability-function. Meaning to what extent is our critique and analysis correct, practical in exposing and identifying contradictions and antagonisms, because those dehumanizing factors of the Virginia prisoner are not simply limited to just the petty-tyrannical savage urge fulfillment of the Virginia prison official, but are fundamental aspects of the entirety of Virginia's Social Contract as such any work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable is actually the work of demanding that the Commonwealth democratizes its articulated Constituted aspirations and we can only realize it by paying attention and self-critique.

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

WHY THE NEWLY MINTED "PAROLE" LAW--[and I place Parole in quotes] --VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1---ISN'T A STEPPING STONE BUT ANOTHER TIRED BRICK IN THE WALL By William Thorpe

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First of all it passed The Virginia House of Delegates as HB-1030 without any dissenting vote, then it passed the Virginia Senate unanimously and anything and I mean anything, that presently can receive consensus, meaning reactionary and supremacist Republicans agreeing with Democrats Nationally or State doesn't bode well, especially when the issue is Prisoner related, as such it clearly fits the bill of that proverbial mouth of a "gift horse".This newly minted Virginia law 53.1-151.1,titled SUITABILITY FOR RELEASE ON PAROLE DISCRETIONARY PAROLE CRITERIA GUIDELINES, is for all purpose practically insidious. It came out of a frame work structured by a couple of Virginia prisoners, Jonathan White and David Carmichael who like a sizable amount of Virginia prisoners, should be exempt from, Virginia's abolishment of parole but are being illegally and slyly subjected to it and violated, by what is for all practical purposes, the Ex Post Facto application of the 1995 abolishment of Parole, even though no one in Virginia's Government has the courage to state such. Their frame work that became 53.1-151.1 SUITABILITY FOR RELEASE ON PAROLE, was presented to the Virginia criminal justice reform advocacy group, VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, who then pitched it to Virginia Delegate Tony Wilt who relatively agreed and with his assistant Chad Funkhouser, crafted it into HB-1030.Along the way elements of Prison reform advocacy in Virginia, specifically, Kenneth Hunter of VIRGINIA INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, David Smith of S.A.L.T, Rob Poggenklass of JUSTICE FORWARD VIRGINIA, Taj Mahoney and Shawn Wanetta of THE HUMANIZATION PROJECT lent their labors to its existence.I BEGIN: The People least culpable for the insidiousness of 53.1-151.1 are THE VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, who have time and time shown to stand on the side of Parole doing its intent, because they can be excused for the ignorance of not clearly knowing and factoring in that Virginia prisoners as Jonathan White and David Carmichael along with all those others who still have the legal right to parole in Virginia are being illegally subjected to the dynamics of its1995 abolishment. The issue with Virginia prisoners legally eligible for parole, yet denied it under political gambits, particularly those of Virginia Republicans, isn't about a set of statutory guidelines, which were not in existence during the circumstances of imprisonment as such,(and here is where we find the insidiousness of 53.1-151.1) cannot be applied retroactively and the only implied justification for 53.1-151.1,is its retroactivity which is no where to be found in the law, because the only class of Virginia prisoners 53.1-151.1 applies to are those still legally eligible,yet it cannot.So it isn't any surprise and wonder why Virginia legislators, both reactionary and supremacist Republicans along with Democrats unanimously Ayed it, because its a win win for all of them to then claim Bonafide's on prison and criminal justice reform, knowing perfectly well that not only wouldn't it enable paroling Virginia prisoners, but it will now impede it as another unstated and undeclared ex post facto application. The issues with the games played by Virginia's Government over Parole as function of imprisonment is simply that of impunity and extra-judicial presumptions, which is where the debate should be. Because the status quo or the beneficiaries of Social Contract narratives want to exist outside of law and its imperatives which the People are subjected to, as such what we encounter are the conveniences of contradictions.

The flaw and it is a dehumanizing one, in the base animating logic of 53.1-151.1, is it continues that mindless argument, that the issue and problem is the very fact and existence of the Virginia Prisoner, as such the onus and purpose of the imprisonment is the prisoner's responsibility. Well this line of thinking stands without opposition and scrutiny, because the Virginia prisoner is mute in its formulation, yet its object. In other words whether or not the intellectual intent of its proponents is misanthropic is besides the point, the reality nonetheless is a defacto universal misanthropic stance with all of the Virginia People. Due to the history of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the fact that it hasn't been challenged and required to defend, its logic, what we have is that existence of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and 53.1-151.1 is another cobblestone. Because what we find in Virginia's imprisonment scheme is the imprisoned Virginian is not human simply on account of the condition. If Virginia's imprisonment scheme stands on the position that behavior is defined by dehumanization, then we should see The Commonwealth's Educational system as it prepares Virginia's youth for adulthood (because that's where we find its quintessential value) plying and practicing "dehumanization", and for certain Virginia demographics that is exactly what we see. But I make a more fundamental point, which is the people of the Commonwealth speaking as and through Government, are not simply sequestering the imprisoned Virginian but implying that the imprisoned Virginian is something less than the non-imprisoned and as such most be brought in line. Whether or not Virginians are prescient of this reality is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is the imprisoned Virginian due to the imposition of sentence will explicitly return to Society, which is implicit of the Commonwealth's pursuit of " bringing the prisoner in line", as such Virginia's imprisonment scheme has to defend only this one objective of realizing the imprisoned and returning Virginian into Society as a full and all around mature participant, anything less takes away any and all claims of legitimacy. Yet this isn't what we see, what we instead see is the Virginia prisoner is confronted with an existence that assumes and presumes humanness, because the humanness cannot be denied, yet abjectly and unconditionally is dehumanized in the most socially idealistic and speculative manner and we see this for example in 53.1-151.1with this.....["IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 1 RANGE, SUCH PRISONER SHALL RECEIVE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION FOR PAROLE.IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 2 RANGE,SUCH PRISONER MAY BE CONSIDERED A SUITABLE CANDIDATE FOR PAROLE.IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 3 RANGE SUCH PRISONER IS PRESUMED TO BE UNSUITABLE FOR PAROLE. IF THE PAROLE BOARD DEVIATES FROM THE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON THE DISCRETIONARY PAROLE CRITERIA WORKSHEET SCORE FOR A PRISONER SCORED AT TIER 1 OR TIER 3, THE BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A WRITTEN EXPLANATION FOR SUCH DEVIATION. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE BOARD FROM MAKING IT'S FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GRANT DISCRETIONARY PAROLE BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PRISONER".] (and I challenge any lawyer or legal scholar to show whether the pronouncements of 53.1-151.1 are worthy of its print paper).This is the crux, the exercise of imprisonment by the authority of organized violence in all its various forms, is a base antagonism of the human condition, as such is what we have to confront and wrangle accountability on. Accordingly it is the work of prison reform in Virginia and without confronting it what we end up with is a farce.

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

FIRST OF ALL THE COMMONWEALTH'S LEGAL AND POLITICAL-ECONOMY SCHOLARS ARE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND ON ANALYSIS OF PAROLE AS FUNCTION OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: This absence by The Commonwealth's scholars on issues and questions that define and defend the terms and relationship of Virginia's Social Contract isn't only limited to The Commonwealth's imprisonment scheme and its Justice Infrastructure, but, it cuts to a basic lack of analytic honesty of the very nature of Virginia's Political-economy formulations of the Social Contract. What has then historically passed as analysis of Virginia's political-economy are reactionary colloquial suppositions cloaked in Opinion Pieces spoon-fed the People of The Commonwealth by the Corporate Media, specifically, The Richmond Times-Dispatch. So on issues of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and accounts of the practices and professional behavior of the Virginia prison official, the Virginia people, in whose name the imprisonment scheme is imposed and executed are groomed under the guise of educative information by the existence of idealistic, reckless and self-serving pronouncements in Virginia's corporate media, to in rote form endorse such practices and professional behavior from the Virginia prison official without any second thoughts or any thought at all. We saw a classic example of this during the Virginia Republican exploitation of the abolish parole in Virginia gambit of 1995 under the leadership of the racist of Macaca infamy Republican Governor George Allen, with The Richmond Times-Dispatch being a pure and simple propaganda amplifier selling the People of The Commonwealth a bill of goods that to this day in 2026 is still that proverbial "gift horse in the mouth".We would think that after the Human Condition's monstrous encounters with articulations of a "Final Solution", this and a "Final Solution" that, those who would presume leadership and provide it's speech would at least recognize and realize that, notwithstanding and despite the passage of time, that inexorability of resolving the diametrical dialectic is inevitable, which is where we find the question and issue of Parole as function of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. There isn't any aspect of the Human Condition and its variegated Social Contract forms that isn't an approximate existence and the application of Justice as terms and relationship isn't exempt. As such the dogma of ideology shouldn't have any hint, any breath on it, which were our Virginia Scholars satisfying and fulfilling their function, We as The People would be equipped and armed with it's relative insight to grasp, that "certainty", exactitude as expressions of zealotry have no function in matters of Justice, which Parole as aspect of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and its Infrastructure is a derivative. Parole in Virginia has a genesis as its National presence. Which as analyzed in the 1833 case, UNITED STATES v. WILSON 32 U.S 150 [" Parole did not develop from any specific source or experiment but is an outgrowth of a number of independent measures: the conditional pardon, the apprenticeship by indenture, the transportation of criminals to America and Australia, the English and Irish experiences with the system of ticket-of-leave, and the work of American prison reformers during the nineteenth century"].So we see in 1942,the statutory creation of a Virginia Parole Board, with 5 members selected by the Governor, to grant, deny, revoke and supervise conditional release. Then in 1995 we see the abolishment of Parole in Virginia save for what is described as Geriatric Parole. We also find that Virginia legislators lied about the impact abolishing parole has on those pre its abolishing, because those prisoners are being denied Parole.

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 REAL QUESTION IS IMPRISONMENT IN VIRGINIA A PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN CAPITAL DESTROYING HARM ? By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: Virginia State and Federal Courts have fundamentally recognized, loss of earning capacity, human capital, opportunity and liberty as economic harm. Nonetheless, Courts have treated the loss of liberty as a primary baseline cost of imprisonment, but when conditions of the imprisonment exceed Virginia and United States Constitutional limits, causing measurable physical or psychological injury or deprive the prisoner of opportunities the State is not entitled to take then the harm becomes compensable and once harm is compensable, loss of productivity becomes a valid economic measure of damages. The question is also this, Virginia legislators along with the Courts bandy about supposed jurisprudential definitions of primary Social Contract terms as Liberty, Human Capital, Opportunity and Productivity that only are reflective of biases and interests, that require a general baseline of acceptance from the People of Virginia, in other words, if imprisonment is practiced in the name of the People of Virginia, it must and should require a denominator of cognizable purpose that is firmly in pursuit of the "unity of the people", yet its absence is what we have as observable facts of Virginia's Social Contract. So when the Commonwealth or State of Virginia deprives the Prisoner of opportunities it is obligated to provide, as codified in Virginia Law at Title 53.1,as mandated education, vocational training, rehabilitative programming or imposes conditions that destroy human capital, despite the fact that this formulation of issues of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is the least developed, the prisoner can then argue, you didn't just confine me, but you destroyed my productive capacity which you had no right to do. But because the Virginia citizenry isn't cued in on what is required for that perfection of the unity of the people or simply put that pursuit of unconditional equality under law, there isn't the necessary scrutiny of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, that will excavate it with clarity that it isn't a crass availability, a means of satisfying sadistic impulses. If imprisonment is supposed to be only a loss of liberty and the actual conditions destroy human capital, because the State of Virginia has purposefully and deliberately left vague and ill defined what its imprisonment conditions are beyond the deprivation of a relative and approximate freedom of action, what it presents then is the argument that Prison is not merely a deprivation of liberty but a State-engineered destruction of human capital. The State in its pursuit of Imprisonment may seize liberty, but it may not destroy the person and when it does the economic value of that destruction is compensable, because the State of Virginia primarily already sees the human being categorically in the political-economy terms of value. The State of Virginia as intimated and hinted by debates and fights over its imprisonment scheme in debates over overcrowding, solitary confinement, reentry, Department of Corrections budgets, rhetoric over Rehabilitation vs. Punishment. All of this reveal that Virginia knows that imprisonment destroys more than liberty, it destroys capacity, opportunity, and long term human potential. However no mainstream Virginia figure has the courage to say such outright, because saying it forces a moral and fiscal reckoning the State isn't prepared to face. Nonetheless every time the Virginia Politician talks about, workforce shortage, the need for "second chances" or the economic benefits of reentry programs is an implicit admission that the prison system suppresses human capital and reduces future productivity.

We also see this tacit admission in the fight against Solitary Confinement as exploited and deployed by the Virginia prison official, with opponents standing on arguments that show cognitive decline, psychological deterioration, and long term-functional impairment, which is the logic of "loss of productive capacity", just expressed in clinical terms. Virginia's wrongful conviction compensation is based on the idea that the State took more than it was entitled to take and the "economic value" of that loss must be repaid. We also see it in Juvenile Justice Reform, with the argument that Youth incarceration destroys, educational trajectories, earning potential and life time opportunity which are explicitly without euphemisms describing human capital destruction. What all of this shows and reveals is that systemic fly in the Social Contract ointment of The Commonwealth of Virginia, which fundamentally is an unwillingness to unconditionally without qualification recognize Human Life. Because the recognition of human life is due to the acceptance and understanding of terms of interaction and its stability as Law and its process that is due in its application. But because human life is recognized "conditionally", meaning it isn't accepted equally under law, which then reveals impunity or abuse, mistreatment, violations under the generality as, dehumanization. In otherwards even as the Social Contract as political-economy valuation and terms of relation of human life are firmly grounded as basis of the human condition and its variegated expressions. We see it accorded distinctions, classes, groupings, characteristics that show an extreme form of intellectual dysfunction and conceptual confusion irrespective of basis, even though purporting to realize the intellectual work of maintaining the social contract, what we see is just a crass indulgence of cutting off the nose to spite the face. In other words, even as human life is denigrated and dehumanized, it still is the only means and mechanism of actualizing value or that one and only purpose of it as the business of creating those conditions and circumstances for the existence of human life. Now, despite these herculean efforts of misinformation we as a people are bombarded with, by all the idealistic reactionary agents of futility, we are not stuck and caught up in an informational black hole of decrepit models of the ignorance's of the human condition. As a people we might not readily posses the characterizing language of our experienced antagonisms, but that doesn't mean that for example we are blind to the fact that if The Commonwealth will use the imprisonment model as application of its justice, the imprisoned shouldn't be subjected to conditions and circumstances that destroy their humanness. There is nothing about Virginia's construct of imprisonment that can be shown to be nothing less than sadism as implicit attitude towards human life and this isn't even indictment based on Virginia's history of the chattel enslavement of Black People, instead what we state is imprisonment cannot continue as its surrogacy.

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

IMPRISONMENT IS THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IMPLICITLY REQUIRING UNITY OF SPEECH By William Thorpe

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Speech for purposes of our Human Condition and in extension, formulations of the Social Contract is everything. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is the governing administration of Government meaning, compulsion and its organized violence medium, which is expressed and for purposes of this work takes on the character of imprisonment and the function of the Virginia Prison Official. As such there has to be a unity of understanding among the people of what is being done in their name by the Virginia prison official, who is privileged with the task of administering imprisonment. This unity of understanding among the people is, primarily and basically achieved and realized as "equality under law and its due process" or holding the Virginia prison official accountable. Despite the fact the Commonwealth has a lattice of the availability of process, implying that potential of accountability or the accountability-function of the governing imperative it exist idealistically, meaning it is not satisfying its intended function and this impracticality is the achilles of Virginia's Social Contract. My motive is how do we subordinate the Virginia prison official to the will of the People of Virginia, meaning that actuality of accountability. I BEGIN: The Commonwealth of Virginia is a constituent of the People, but when we get into the nuts and bolts of not only is what, but who are the people, that's when we are confronted with layers upon layers of its compromise or impunity, meaning who falls into the category of the controlled and the controlling, which naturally has its logic and sophistry in defense. What I want to introduce with this work is this. The Governor or Executive of the Commonwealth is Constitutionally required to declare, "what is the state of the Commonwealth ", to the People via both branches of Virginia's Government, specifically both houses of their elected Representatives in the Legislature and The Virginia Supreme Court. This address is a sort of pro forma availability to the People of The Commonwealth and its implicit satisfaction of a level of the accountability-function. However it is idealistic and has long lost its intended function and intent. Because not only are the people alienated from its substance, even when asserted, they don't experience and feel that there is any illusion that they are considered and taking into account and to give the Commonwealth credit, this unity of understanding compromise isn't a deliberate ploy and insidious calculation on the part of the system in general, but its a result of the means and forum of availability. What we expect and require of Virginia's Government is responsiveness and its ensuing natural state of under actual due process of law. So what we as the people of Virginia ask for is a Constitutional amendment and legislation requiring, that the Governor and all Department heads or designee, post state of the Commonwealth address immediately present and make themselves available to the People of The Commonwealth at locations representing the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southwestern parts of The State, for no less than an hour to answer questions from the people or representative groups based on practical formula. This availability should not be construed to relitigate electoral issues that were completely, thoroughly and exhaustively debated during the campaign process, which the people resolved by stating their intentions with the ballot. This presents the People that specific opportunity for example to publicly question.

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