CRITIQUING THE INCORRIGIBILITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA WHILE DEFENDING THE PEOPLE, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CHALLENGING THE IMPRISONMENT SCHEME IS NOT A CONTRADICTION By William Thorpe

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I want to begin with this and refute it, not because its premise is illogical, but because practically and historically it is fraudulent. Secondly, it is idealistic, biased and Thirdly it has always been weaponized in that Nietzschean manner of propaganda. Jeff Sessions, the Nation's Attorney General during Trump's first Administration dabbled in its Nietzschean speech and was roundly ridiculed for invoking it as a buffoonish attempt at silencing critics of the deviance and corruption billowing out of "their" ARTICLE II, articulation. What I'm talking about is the Biblical ROMANS 13:1-7.There isn't a context of its affirmation that isn't a disciple of Machiavelli's "opportunism" and its only relevance to our work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is its confusing influence on a sizable amount of the People of the Commonwealth, who despite recognizing that the impunity and above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official is a malignancy and are disgusted by it, however are practically cowed into complicity by its invocation by their various denominational pulpits, who to frame, within their universe are not unlike those embodiments of Government, the Nazarene never passed up an opportunity to expose as antagonistic entities. I BEGIN: Any Virginia Student beginning with Junior High, won't have a problem affirming the necessary and purposeful value of the positive and negative dialectic griding the human business of existence, but with a distinction. Because those same students will, despite affirming the positive in the context of a progressive value of the dialectic interplay and interaction, turn right around and negate their gained insight of the positive value of the dialectic, by perceiving the negative polarity or antithesis as absolute and unresolvable. I have said all of this because it captures and epitomizes the circumstances and character of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. So, for example, it isn't easy for the People of the Commonwealth to set aside the bumper sticker nature of the Speech surrounding Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and give it the required immersive scrutiny it demands. Let's look at it like this the Virginia Department of Corrections or the overseer of the imprisonment scheme, gets the lion's share of taxpayer money. In Virginia's 2026, Budget there were relative cuts across the board while the Department of Corrections' saw an increase. In other words where the money goes isn't a stretch to suppose are the priorities, meaning it should command the People's attention and focus. But true to the dialectic it is the least attended. So, what does the umbrage shown by Judge John A. Gibney in his KING v. OBANNON castigation of the Commonwealth of Virginia, when he said, "For well over a century the Commonwealth of Virginia has disobeyed a Federal Law...." [and this violation was maneuvered into aspect of Virginia's imprisonment scheme], actually tells us about the incorrigibility of the Commonwealth of Virginia? Really not much that the volumes characterizing and documenting the dehumanizing instinct, haven't and are still telling us, [any cursory review of current 2026 court cases filed by Virginia Prisoners against the savagery and barbarism of the professional behavior of the Virginia prison official tells it], which despite the fact the Commonwealth didn't invent savagery and barbarism it is relatively owning, by resisting its abandonment. What our work of reforming the imprisonment scheme ask, is the People, set aside sophistry that induces complicity.

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 .

When the parole process becomes window dressing

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The main argument of this VAPAC post is that Virginia publicly presents its parole system as Evidence of fairness, rehabilitation, and enlightened justice while simultaneously undermining the very purpose of parole through arbitrary and extra-legal practices. [vapac.blogspot.com]

Key Themes

1. Parole as a promise versus parole in practice William Thorpe argues that the existence of a parole process implies a social commitment to rehabilitation, second chances, and rule-of-law principles. He contends that Virginia claims the moral legitimacy that comes with having parole while often frustrating its actual operation. 

2. "Law made man" versus "man above the law" A recurring theme is that legal systems lose legitimacy when personal opinions, biases, or discretionary power override the intended function of law. Thorpe describes this as "above-the-lawism," where officials effectively substitute their own judgments for the legal framework they are supposed to administer. 

3. The Adkins parole case as an example The article focuses heavily on the federal case involving Jeff Adkins and parole examiner Robert Paul Lightner. Thorpe argues that a parole recommendation based on the serious nature of the original offense undermines the purpose of parole because the seriousness of the offense was already considered by courts and juries when the sentence was imposed. In his view, using that factor to deny release later effectively rewrites the original judgment.

4. Accountability and public trust The author contends that when parole officials operate beyond the intended limits of the law, it damages public confidence in government institutions. He argues that even when the affected population is relatively small, such practices signal broader risks to the rule of law for society as a whole.

5. Historical criticism of Virginia's prison system The post places modern parole issues within a longer historical critique of Virginia's penal system, referencing past court decisions and arguing that reforms such as parole were meant to move the Commonwealth away from older, more dehumanizing approaches to imprisonment.

One-Paragraph Summary

Thorpe argues that Virginia's parole system serves as a public symbol of rehabilitation and lawful governance, yet parole officials often undermine that purpose by relying on subjective judgments that effectively override the legal foundations of parole eligibility. Using litigation involving parole decisions as evidence, he contends that this practice represents a form of official "above-the-lawism" that weakens accountability, public trust, and the legitimacy of Virginia's criminal justice system.

From an editorial standpoint, this is one of Thorpe's stronger social-contract and legitimacy critiques, focusing less on individual prisoner grievances and more on whether state institutions actually honor the legal principles they publicly claim to embrace. 

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THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA EXPECTS TO BASK IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT HAVING A PAROLE PROCESS IN IT'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME ASSERTS, WHILE UNDERMINING IT AT EVERY TURN BY William Thorpe

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One of our dead and dusty Presidents is attributed with this, which I paraphrase, we are a Nation of Laws and not men. Parole and its process in the Commonwealth of Virginia is such a law and a Society, with the existence of Social Contract formulations as a Parole Process incorporated in its Justice Infrastructure, would comprehensively claim it as bona fides of enlightenment. Because besides the fact the antithesis of enlightenment is the haven of our human condition, we labor like hell, not in its thesis but its concealment and the dictatorial intention of it's deliberateness, reveals its corrupt-value. In other words, we excel at facades and hypocrisies as practice of what it means to undermine and sabotage our aspirations, which in this context, is that LAW MADE MAN and not at exorcising the corruption of it's above-the-lawism. Society's work at Justice and its aspiration of "repairing harm", has conditionally borne the antagonism of that subordination of LAW MADE MAN, so it isn't surprising that is where we see herculean efforts at undermining efforts of it's reform. The Commonwealth of Virginia is not an outlier in the work of undermining and sabotaging reform, which the Parole Process of its Imprisonment Scheme represents. However, the Commonwealth stands as a glaring reprobate, an incorrigible unrepentant actor, because embracing a parole process in its imprisonment scheme, was intended to rehabilitate, its civilization from the absurdity of its 1871 Supreme Court jurisprudence in RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA. 790, that literally mocked the Speech the Civil War intended on annihilating. So along with other reprehensible moves, which the recent KING v. O'BANNON 817 F. SUPP. 3d 354 after 150 years exposed in 2026, the Parole Process and other reform moves of Virginia's imprisonment scheme were literally and practically intended to redeem and permit the Commonwealth to claim membership into a World moving away from the sort of dehumanization, it was accustomed to, which naturally its Justice Infrastructure reflected. But its one thing to aspire to establishing a set of human relations for a Social Contract, that professes to refute and repudiate, its once upon a time conventions, without actually confessing its misdeeds and that is what the Commonwealth keeps on finding herself dealing with. I want to use two incidents as example. (1) ADKINS v. LIGHTNER 2026 U.S DIST.LEXIS 114231, is a case chronicling a set of events that epitomizes a text book instance of undermining Law and when man resorts to that base extra-judicial behavior. JEFF S. ADKINS is a Virginia Prisoner who was denied Parole in 2021 and he subsequently challenged the denial in Federal Court. Some of the results from his court action are the circumstances revealing and exposing the undermining of Law. ROBERT PAUL LIGHTNER, the defendant, is a Virginia Parole Board examiner, whose function is to interview, parole eligible Virginia prisoners. Mr. Adkins discovered from the processes of his court action that LIGHTNER had concluded from his interviews with Mr. Adkins and I quote "RELEASE WOULD DIMINISH SUCH SERIOUS NATURE" [ of whatever Adkins was imprisoned for].This conclusion and determination by LIGHTNER, is what I want us to focus on and recognize how it absolutely destroys the entire construct and structure of Law and I'm not being hyperbolic. There are those who will argue that LIGHTNER is entitled to his "opinion", which can very well be overruled by the Parole Board in their determinative sitting, but that excuses a flaw in the process that is extra-judicial.

The LIGHTNER is entitled to his "opinion", retort, besides endorsing extra-judicialism, is lazy thinking and presents us with the fulcrum of the inherent corrupt-value of systems, i.e. Social Contract. Because it hinges on and beseeches an equilibrium of human behavior, as we have given it the attribution, PROFESSIONALISM, apart from the socio-person norm, indicates that anticipatory something more than "opinion". What I mean is this, the only reason and basis of the interaction, between Mr. Adkins and Lightner, is law and its anticipated professionalism imbued in Lightner. The Law of Virginia's Parole Process, provided Mr. Lightner, with the "authority" to "restrain" Mr. Adkins, by subjecting him to a parole interview. By exercising the interview and examination authority of Virginia's parole process, Lightner was declaring that not only was he performing a State function, but he understood the very instinct and intention of the Commonwealth in establishing a Parole process. What this requires is a comprehensive grasp of, not the mere mechanics of it's existence, but the function of parole within Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and this fundamentally demands that "professional" cognition of, not a speculative or theoretical grasp of DUE PROCESS OF LAW, but its Applied and Practical objectivity and this is where, what Adkins claims, [which was undisputed and unrefuted], LIGHTNER provided the Virginia Parole Board, that his "release would diminish such serious nature" [again of whatever Adkins was imprisoned for], destroys and betrays whatever logic the Commonwealth pursues in having laws. So let's understand what LIGHTNER is actually doing, which if the People of the Commonwealth are to demand an accountability-function of governance, that is distinct from the restraints of the political artificialness and whimsies of jurisprudence, that at times forgets it is subject, LIGHTNER'S actions must be seen as. Let's begin with the most basic, which is the pivotal apex and apogee of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure weighed the "nature" of Adkins interaction with it and accorded him eligibility of the parole process, which lest we forget, exist for one and only one purpose, that of releasing the imprisoned. Virginia's imprisonment scheme doesn't defer to a later on down the road of imprisonment and the parole process, that an ad hoc speculative imposition assumes a supremacy of authority and "POWERS", that exist no where in all the variegated forms and expressions of LAW, from its theological-intercessionist, to the secular pardon and commutative of a Sovereign or Executive, the privilege of second guessing what a mature Commonwealth of Virginia Jury has "done", which is what LIGHTNER'S actions as exposed by ADKINS speaks to. The LIGHTNER'S of the World have a selective and presumptive grasp of criminality and deviance, that is nothing short of a blind spot in what we can only suppose are indicative of reflexive finger pointing. But Rousseau's critique of the tyranny of the individual, is well understood for the due process of law, to ignore. The Commonwealth of Virginia is gravely harmed, when law violations at it's most basic, above-the-lawism, are knowingly allowed to exist, because it undermines the faith and trust of THE PEOPLE. Just as what a blight spot of fungus reveals, the demographic percentage being subjected to the above-the-lawism of Virginia's Parole process reveals to the greater society that irrespective of size the entire body politic is at risk.(2) Secondly the cases of MOSCHETTI v. OFF. OF INSPECTOR GEN. 2022 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 144143, MOSCHETTI v. NIXON PEABODY LLP 2024 U.S. DIST.LEXIS 95757, MOSCHETTI v. OFF. OF INSPECTOR GEN.758 F.SUPP. 3d. 533. MOSCHETTI also speaks to the above-the-lawism sabotaging the faith and trust of the People.

1. Virginia Parole Grant Rate

This is the single most important statistic because it directly tests the article's underlying claim.

Recent public commentary citing Virginia Parole Board records states that in 2025 the Board considered 2,609 inmates and granted parole to 32, producing a grant rate of approximately 1.2%. [cardinalnews.org]

That statistic allows you to ask:

If parole exists to provide meaningful release opportunities, what does a 1.2% approval rate tell us about the system's actual function?

The article becomes much stronger when readers can see the scale of denial rather than merely hear about it.

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2. Number of Parole-Eligible Prisoners

Virginia abolished discretionary parole for most offenses committed after 1995, but a population of parole-eligible prisoners remains. [vadoc.virginia.gov], [virginia.gov]

A useful chart would show:

• Total parole-eligible population
• Number considered annually
• Number granted
• Number denied
• Number deferred

This would reveal whether the system is functioning as a review mechanism or merely as a procedural checkpoint.

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3. Reasons for Denial

This may be the most powerful evidence for Thorpe's thesis.

Using the monthly Board reports available publicly, a VAPAC researcher could code:

• Serious nature of offense
• Release diminishes seriousness of crime
• Public safety risk
• Institutional conduct
• Lack of rehabilitation evidence
• Victim opposition

The question is:

How often does the Board rely on offense-based reasons versus rehabilitation-based reasons?

If offense severity dominates decades after sentencing, that would directly support the article's critique. [vpb.virginia.gov], [law.lis.virginia.gov]

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4. Time Already Served

Another strong metric:

For each granted and denied case:

• Sentence imposed
• Time actually served
• Age at review
• Number of prior reviews

Readers respond strongly to:

"Prisoner served 35 years and was denied based on offense seriousness."

The longer the served time, the more forceful the policy question becomes.

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5. Recidivism Among Released Parolees

This is critical because opponents will argue public safety.

Virginia itself tracks:

"The percentage of inmates released in a year who are convicted of a new offense within three years of release." [reports.dp...rginia.gov]

If recidivism among elderly parolees or long-term prisoners is low, that becomes direct evidence against perpetual denial based on speculative future risk.

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The Most Effective "Data Box" For This Specific Article

The Numbers Behind Virginia Parole

• 2,609 parole cases considered in 2025. [cardinalnews.org]
• 32 grants issued in 2025. [cardinalnews.org]
• Approximate grant rate: 1.2%. [cardinalnews.org]
• Virginia abolished parole for most post-1995 offenses, leaving only a limited parole-eligible population. [vadoc.virginia.gov]
• Virginia law requires consideration of rehabilitation, maturation, educational progress, prosocial behavior, and community support in parole decisions. [law.lis.virginia.gov]

The Question

If rehabilitation, maturity, education, and community support are statutory considerations, why are so few parole-eligible prisoners released? 

NOTE AND ATTENTION THE ABOVE SUPPORTING INFORMATION IS ALSO A RESEARCH GUIDE FOR THE READER TO USE IN FURTHER RESEARCHING AND UNDERSTANDING VIRGINIAS PAROLE PROCESS.

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 .

IN FOUR YEARS "THEY" SCAMMED THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA OF APPX. $4 MILLION By William Thorpe

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And you know what unless the People of the Commonwealth say enough is enough. Enough with the selective criminalization, enough with the selective outrage, enough with re-characterizations and saying up is down and down is up and WE ARE ALL HELD TO THE SAME DEFINITIONS, this roller coaster existence of the exploitation of "harm" and "injustice" will persist. I BEGIN: During the Administration of Governor Glen Youngkin and his Republican cabalistic stooges, much noise was made about the Virginia Parole Board rarely paroling eligible Virginia Prisoners. Even to the extent that the Chairperson of the Board, Patricia West felt comfortable enough to publicly state (and I paraphrase) that she'd never vote to parole anyone imprisoned for a violent offense. I started this work with, "enough with the selective outrage, enough with re-characterizations".Because as much as it is historically and intractably convenient to highlight a type of deviance and criminality, the more destructively insidious and warned of "enemies from within" of the Social Contract are the nose thumbing of the likes of a Patricia West and the collective lawlessness of the Virginia Parole Board under Youngkin and egged on by the inherent lawlessness and corruption of reactionaries and in this case, Virginia Republicans, whose nose thumbing compromises and betrays that weary trust and faith held by "the people" in the aspired commonweal of the Social Contract. In an ideology-less Social Contract, (and contrary to the propaganda canned for us, nothing about Virginias' or for that matter, the National construct is ideological or driven by it, not to get into it, but a Social Contract structured on Ideology, is comprehensively Revolutionary, questioning and critiquing each and every aspect and circumstance of its existence. Imagine doing that in a deluded construct whose introspection is incapable of shaking mythological and theological presumptions and is endeared to that, sirenic Sisyphean-quixote wheel reinvention which is where Virginia and the Nation preen), the bastion of the People are the whimsy of "trust and faith" along with the enormous baggage of it's contradictions and antagonisms. The behavior of the Glen Youngkin appointed and Patricia West led Virginia Parole Board, for the four years of their Republican lawlessness painted all of this for us in the bright red strokes of nose thumbing, daring the Virginia People to say enough is enough. You cannot on the one hand claim authority from a law then with a wink and nod blatantly violate it. Because Parole and its process in the Virginia imprisonment scheme, isn't that of, should the confinement and imprisonment continue but why it shouldn't. Nor is it an ad hoc opportunity for a re-litigation, of an adjudication process that has already satisfied its Virginia law provisions or better put, a second guessing of a realized and maturely constituted Virginia Jury. A process that contains within itself Parole. Parole whose sole existence in the imprisonment scheme is that of "releasing the prisoner from confinement". This is the law, those Youngkinites on the Virginia Parole Board, casually and systematically violated, by failing to parole eligible Virginia prisoners, even as they kept on collecting their Virginia tax payer provided six figure pay checks. Which for those aggregate four years of tenure, added to an approximate $4 Million scam. This isn't complicated and obfuscating to grasp. Virginia law is clear the Parole Board's duty and legal obligation is to review the provision of parole, not preside over its denial. The Virginia tax payer wasn't paying Patricia West and co.to second guess the law and its will.

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 .

VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME WOULD RATHER WE FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL VIOLATIONS, THAT OLD TWO STEP, WELL WE SHOULD BY NOW KNOW BETTER By William Thorpe

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There isn't a violation and harm inflicted on the Prisoner and specifically for purposes of this work, THE VIRGINIA PRISONER, that isn't reflective of what is happening in the larger and "free" Society, with the only distinction that on the Prisoner it reaches and achieves maximum intention and revelation. First of all I need to dispense with this confusion, that only serves, that "self-check" function of how the socio-person is "controlled", meaning our grasp and understanding of conditions, circumstances and situations which in turn determines our responses and reactions. Which is the theological narrative and present it's nakedness, which simply is, the contradiction of "Property" and its MATERIAL formulant, has always, when in that unanalyzed and uncritiqued state been that proverbial "fly in the ointment", imposing its confusion, which in turn has been symbiotically exploited by "our", human conditional short sightedness, as justification, or proof, grounding a narrative, that serves a truly monstrous Liege Lord, which our ancients in a brief moment of honesty, gave us (and I paraphrase), we've encountered the enemy and it's us. This work isn't going down that rabbit hole, I had to however establish it as preface, because our work of holding the Virginia Prison Official demands that before we engage the antagonism presented by the Commonwealth's organized-violence in its prison-official form, we recognize and come to terms with that, we've encountered the enemy and its us, because without our complicity in all its myriad expressions, there isn't anything for the violating narrative to hide behind. This is not the first time I'm stressing the fact, that Virginia's imprisonment scheme would rather we only speak to its countless individual misdeeds. Because it accomplishes a couple of sub-functions:(1) individualizing misdeeds, legitimizes its self asserted mission and (2) we unconsciously moderate our analysis and critique, regardless of intensity and extremity of language. Because as soon as we affirm the misdeed by complaining of its occurrence, at the expense of focusing on the fact that whatever logic presented by "Virginia's" imprisonment scheme is fundamentally fraudulent, we've participated in that Brer Rabbit syndrome of ignoring that the entire construct is covered in sticky tar. The issue isn't whether imprisonment should be aspect of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, because, Virginia's Social Contract, hasn't ever democratically presented it for debate. Instead, its antebellum, chattel slavery origin was simply redressed and reclothed in other suppositionary garbs post the Commonwealth's defeat in its traitorous Civil War misadventure and foisted from the supremacist presumptions. So its one thing to speak of a Due Process of peers, when the qualifications of "peers", is just another presumptive contradiction that is yet, to be resolved. So when we speak of the Accountability-Function of governance we are not doing it within the biases of Virginia's aspirations, but upon that legitimacy, which the Great Schizophrenic In Chief Thomas Jefferson grounded whatever claim the rebellious and separatist North American Colonies had as logic, from The Britain of King George, with this in the 1776 declaration of Independence," To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:", this Jeffersonian imploration of a "candid world", attest to an accountability-function of governance existing in itself.

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 .