Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee

Sunday, August 16, 2026

ZOMBIE by FELA KUTI: I DEDICATE TO VIRGINIA'S PAROLE SYSTEM and OTHER VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS STUNTS. By William Thorpe

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When the entire Virginia General Assembly unanimously voted for Delegate Tony Wilt's (R) HB 1030, which is now codified Virginia Code 53.1-151.1 and we were given the hard sale that its the best thing as reform of what's left of Virginia's disemboweled Parole System. I saw through it quickly, that it was one of the worst things and a reactionary gambit akin to the original Trojan Horse and I've been saying so. Anyway considering that Virginia's Parole System is dead, because it was abolished by the Tony Wilt hemisphere of Virginia Thought, yes Republicans under the leadership of the disgraced and of racist "Macaca" infamy Governor George Allen in 1995. And it was being Frankensteined back to life by Virginia Democrats, with The EARNED SENTENCE CREDITS law in 2022, then with Mr. Wilt's HB 1030, I had to dedicate Fela Kuti's ZOMBIE, to the entirety of the Parole Process. Of course there is some tongue in cheek going on, considering Virginia is no stranger to the tongue in cheek. Remember that classic tongue in cheek by a Virginian,"...that all men are created equal " even as he practiced its inequality to its maximum fullest with the enchattlement of Black People, even carrying the "right" of the first night to its most barbarous fundamental. Then here is another one that's recently being trumpeted by the Virginia Department of Corrections, that its flagship Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison is unveiling an "intensive" reentry program. Now I'm not saying what I'm about to because I'm a prisoner and naturally aware that the prison official is always full of it and we gotta always have that proverbial grain of salt to ingest pronouncements from functionaries of state organized-violence, which the prison official is a defacto foot soldier. But my critique of this and that program which is always directed at demographics, either to proscribe freedom of action or when a demographic assumes the distinction State lawful creation, which is what conviction and imprisonment does, is this. If the program is a substantial result expectation, then why don't we see those programs instituted at all levels of the Commonwealth's educational and training Institutions. In other words if the Virginia Department of Corrections and Allies can claim that such and such program or treatment has Virginia's penological pursuit as a Government Interest, which is bringing forth a "productive" and all around complete socio-person, then why does the State have to wait for demographics to become entrapped in its grasp to say, "I'll now fix you with this or that "intensive" reentry program", so you're returned to Society as a productive socio-person? when hell the State could've started its Koncentration Kamp programs in pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade School, Junior High, High School, College/University and the various Technical and Vocational training programs and more than likely we wouldn't have something as Virginia's imprisonment scheme. I mean we would see Virginia's elite sprinting to enroll their kids in all of these, to use Virginia Department of Corrections verbiage, "evidence based programs", right? because it works, right? in creating that desired socio-person? Come on man, gimme a break !.The entire Virginia Department of Corrections and its Imprisonment Scheme under the directive of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure still has the dehumanizing stench of the slave Plantation of our Schizophrenic in Chief, Thomas Jefferson and co. And we are supposed to do what, suspend our THOUGHT and applaud as the enfeebled among us applauded the incredulity of HB 1030, that the Virginia prison official is doing reentry?.

By William Thorpe

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 

Saturday, August 15, 2026

GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER HAS USED HER BULLY PULPIT ON THE QUESTION OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA BY PUBLICLY SEEKING "INPUT" FROM VIRGINIANS.PEOPLE THIS ISNT TIME FOR APATHY By William Thorpe

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The question isn't whether Governor Abigail Spanberger and the Virginia Democratic establishment are for us the People on the issue of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. The fact of the matter she has came out and said it. Which is, she has already legitimized and validated our Speech that Virginia's Imprisonment scheme must be reformed and the Virginia Prison Official subordinated to the accountability-function of governance, with her relatively and unprecedented ask that she is provided "input".What is before us is whether we recognize the moment and do what we must regardless and irrespective of our expected speculations of what will come of it. As a prisoner under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia but held in the Texas prison system. What I have to say is, even by conservative estimates there are approximately 450,000 immediate family members of the,45,000 imprisoned Virginian. If we add on another approximate 5 friends each of the imprisoned Virginian, we get 225,000 more Virginians added on to the 450,000 immediate Prisoner family member, which gives us an approximate 675,000 Virginians with actual and dynamic interest in the life existence and experience of the Virginia Prisoner. This number of the Virginia socio-person actively concerned and interested in Virginia's imprisonment scheme has its relative exponential compound, because its impact is felt all over and across the Commonwealth, even with those who besides the shared humanity with the prisoner have no other connection than that of seeing that the Commonwealth practices what it preaches, under its Constituted Aspirations and claims of a civilizational witness. So the only question for us, is response to the Governor's ask. The logic of such an ask has practical components. Let's say 10% of the 675,000 prospective Virginians respond to Spanberger's ask, meaning 67,500 Virginians have stated their political intention and will. One of the first things it does and shows is, the typical assumptions about no one cares about prison issues are wrong. Secondly it challenges the other assumption, that Democratic politicians are historically and typically averse to tackling issues of criminal justice reform. Thirdly and consequentially it reinvigorates and energizes the People that impacting formulations of Virginia Social Contract circumstances and conditions are not idealistic conversations and speculations, but actual Speech of their authority. Now I want to also say this, Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia prisoner should reach out to their imprisoned loved ones asking them to itemize their concerns, which the Family, e.t.c. can send in to the Governor. If I may offer a suggestion, when the email-inputs are sent to the Governor's Office they should also be cc'd to groups i.e ACLU of VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DEFENDERS, UPROAR, VAPAC and others. The idea is it documents a record, that such a purely organic and democratic Speech was practiced by the People and it cannot be disputed and if and when Governor Spanberger's ask turns out as another same old same old, the record will be irrefutable indictment. Now I realize that there are many among us who function under the idealistic and backwards thought of if an action isn't specific to their individual circumstance, predicament and situation, the focus not only has no significance for them, but they take it as affront. Now I understand their psychology in its context but as The People we cannot speak of progress and its labor and shun them.

By William Thorpe

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 

Friday, August 14, 2026

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART VII By William Thorpe

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This is the Part VII in the SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS Series, that I've been doing. Again allow me to reiterate that even though this work is primarily for the FAMILY, ALLY and FRIENDS of the Virginia Prisoner the information is relevant for Family, Ally and Friends of Prisoners Nationally. I begin: I know that in a general way we all are aware that Society, or as in this particular case Virginia's, which I'd rather describe with the term SOCIAL CONTRACT, is a result of concepts, ideas and thoughts. Even though a lot of work goes into hiding and concealing that simple fact by those who want to "misuse", abuse and dehumanize human life. Such concealment is accomplished in a specific manner, which is by turning our human self against ourselves, by an entire universe of gambits. What I do with this series is provide some of the THOUGHT, that are weaponized against us, as the People. Despite the fact that my focus is oriented from the circumstance of imprisonment, Prison is just an aspect of, or rather a tool in the tool box of ideas or THOUGHT of those in the status quo, in their varying degrees who benefit from whatever abject state and condition a Social Contract exists as and in. So even though Prison as condition and imprisonment as circumstance is a jump off, or point of scrutiny, it is just a sliver of what must be grappled with as push for reform. Now everyone will nod in the affirmative that Prison is a place of punishment, without pausing to ask what do we mean by punishment. Secondly it might give the typical socio-person a moment of hesitation to ingest the fact, that LAW as principle in its Natural character and its Social Contract, political-economy application is akin to the Air effusing us naturally, according to the varying circumstances of interaction. In other words as air found inside a home is defined by its space, even as it is also as air found outside the home, the relative distinction, is the interaction, which is what we have to come to terms with as we push for reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Because even as every single Virginian lawfulness is according to and defined by the varying distinctions of relationship with Law, the imprisoned Virginian is the most lawful, because the imprisoned Virginian is comprehensively created by law or that toolbox of ideas. As such to reform the circumstance and condition of the imprisonment and Prison, as value of the Virginia human condition and socio-person, the relevant factor is to what extent can and does a Virginian Speak. Listed below are materials necessary for understanding whether its THOUGHT is conducive towards the business of human existence, which prison and imprisonment operate as taskmaster.
REVERSE SUNSHINE IN THE DIGITAL WILD FRONTIER: PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY AGAINST PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS FOR GOVERNMENT DATABASES----42 N.KY.L.REV.191 by JENNIFER A.BROBST TORTURE--THE ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF A RELATIVE TERM:DOES EVERYONE KNOW WHAT IS IN ROOM 101?----53 AM. J. COMP.L.743 by OMAR ZEE BECKERMAN U.S.RATIFICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION: THE GHOST OF SENATOR BRICKER----89 A.J.I.L.341 by LOUIS HARKIN [cited in I GARTUA v. U.S 626 F.3d 592, IGARTUA-DELA ROSA v. UNITED STATES 417 F.3d 145, KANE v. WHITE 319 F.SUPP.2d 162] [cited in ALABAMA STATE cases WYNN v. STATE 804 So.2d 1122, EX PARTE PRESSLEY 770 So.2d 143] THE EXPERIENTIAL FUTURE OF THE LAW---60 EMORY L.J.585 by ADAM J. KOLBER People do what you can to read and study because words either keep us under dictatorship or give us Agency..

By William Thorpe

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 

Thursday, August 13, 2026

GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS HEARING US, NOT WILLIAM THORPE BUT US By William Thorpe

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Let me begin like this, I'm a Black man, whose life experience is an existence post the 1400's with every single aspect, to date is due to that specific history of post 1400's.Yes every animated organism, including the human being has agency. Whether we characterize it as instinct-intuitive or human reasoning, it is action for itself. Now as a Black person the character of agency post 1400's, can also be described as, you're on a bucking, galloping horse. Agency can only exist and be understood in the context of work or labor to restrain the beast. So with that as framing of my existence experience. I state the post 1400's has cause as subject and object. With both conditions having and owning narratives, which naturally are subordinate to the relative principles expressing presence and emergence. Now a narrative fact of my post 1400 existence experience, is, I was convicted of armed robbery in Norfolk, Virginia in 1980. I was sentenced to 13 years in Virginia's prison system. A continuation of the narrative develops into constructs that are primarily designed to realize whatever the intentions of that 1400 cause were. As such "terms" come into existence, which not to increase the difficulty of the readers ability to stay with me, I'll say are law and its process. Law as it comes into existence is anticipatory, meaning, firstly it anticipates it will be broken or violated. Then it anticipates embodiment in two values,(1) Subject and (2) Object, meaning, it's application, which is implying process that will serve a function as such must and will have varying or different outcomes or results. With this said, it brings me to the title of this work: GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS HEARING US......So to get at the reason for the title. We have to realize it is within the frame of our intentions which are, reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia prison official accountable. Which is under the metaphorical assignment, the bucking galloping horse. Because according to the dictatorship of intent of the post 1400's cause, with the omnipresent subject and object, emerging in my 1980 imprisonment in Virginia's prison system and its process or Law. There are formulations as legal processes of my imprisonment that are inviolable obligations by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which then cannot be broken or violated. However, we know that its subjective, the Virginia prison official will violate it. Again, the bucking horse, resulting in my agency to restrain it from subjecting me to the violations. So, the emergence of resistance to the repression by the Virginia prison official, is mature narrative of my experience existing post 1400's. This narrative, despite my first-person depiction isn't only about me, but the tens of Billions whose life experience existence, whether behind the bars of Virginia prisons or across the face of this Earth who went to sleep one night, Pré 1400 and woke up in a post 1400.So now that we are in its continuum of dehumanization, the Agency narrative shifts to its restraint, again the bucking horse. So a few days ago Governor Abigail Spanberger told the People of Virginia that she was seeking "INPUT" on reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. This is a narrative shift and we have to have the presence of mind to recognize it on its terms. Now there are those among us who will offer the customary critique, that a status quo is incapable of resolving its antagonisms other than on terms of its self-interest, to which I respond is idealistic. Wrangling the narrative just and right side of history on a status quo isn't activity IN itself, but FOR the selves of the People. In other words, it is firstly a reclamation of the People's archetypal Agency. 

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


Tuesday, August 11, 2026

CONTRARY TO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IT ISN'T ABOUT A PERSON READY FOR THE MOMENT, BUT WHO WILL SIMPLY SPEAK, BECAUSE THE MOMENT IS ALWAYS PRESENT By William Thorpe

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Contrary to how we approach stuff, where conclusions and determinations are directed at, what we classify as events, as if the event just popped up, without a growing and developing period. My critique naturally is based on Virginia's imprisonment scheme, because its circumstance and condition are my organic reality enabling, the point or vantage of observation and scrutiny of the various interactions and intersections that cumulate into the aggregate, Virginia's imprisonment scheme. What my critique does is state, the colloquial, "don't drink the kool-aid". Because this Social Contract of the Commonwealth of Virginia cannot for example become unconditionally rule-based, on the accountability-function of governance, when the rules of its primordial or primitive origins, were conditioned on interests that for example have nothing to do with a condition of "absolute human being". So, if for example Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is absolutely about a level of relationship with the human being, while ignoring such a condition of "absolute human being" exist, naturally we will have all these events aggregating to this point where, the formulation is, Virginia's imprisonment scheme must be reformed. What my critique states is the simple refusal to allow refuge to suppositions. There is nothing complicated about suppositions, because it is always biased, with its nature dependent on what is plain and simple the negation of the human being, due to humanness being reduced to the objectivity and subjectivity of the dictatorship of intent. In so many words, fine if you want to claim that this pursuit or that policy goal has as fundamental interest, the materialization and realization of the Constituted aspirations of the "People" of Virginia, you can do so, but don't act surprised when I question by placing in quotation marks, "by the way, who exactly are the People, you profess concern for". What this then does is, it isn't that one has "permission" to speak, but one Speaks. For example the Virginia Mother who accepts by understanding that her son has run afoul of Virginia Laws, has been subjected to process of the Justice Infrastructure, despite the fact that as a Mother she doesn't have to like and welcome the fact that her son is imprisoned and no one in their right mind expects the Mother to become agreeable with it. However no one should be at odds with the Mother for demanding that the accountability-function of Virginia's governance, as embodied by the Prison Official behaves as unconditionally required and expected to. The circumstance as it currently exist and has historically existed, due to the fact the terms and realization of Virginia's Social Contract are suppositionary, with for example the Mother, despite recognizing its hypocrisies and I can say such with certainty, but due to a lack of conceptual language capturing and framing the hypocrisies, is just as much subjected to the same dynamic of the imprisonment of her son as if she was imprisoned, but and this makes it egregious, minus and without the Due Process of Law, regardless of its substance that her son was accorded and given. What I want to also focus on is this, which is a weapon wielded by the above-the-lawism presumption of Virginia's prison official but is a character, which is: the violations of the governance of the accountability-function are expected to be seen as singular occurrence and not structural and systemic. What I mean is the Mother of the imprisoned Virginian accepts the dehumanization as one of.

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