KIMBERLY SNODGRASS YOU SHOULDN'T BE THANKING ME, INSTEAD IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, US, THE VIRGINIA PRISONER THANK YOU AND ALL OUR WOMEN WHO IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ARE IN OUR LIVES By William Thorpe

I started the day, today 8/19/26 listening to a call in Radio Show on Houston, Texas KPFT and the topic was on masculinity, something about how men are "dominating and putting women in their place". When I was growing up the term for that sort of thinking was "chauvinism", now its misogyny, both describe, what our ancients said, and I paraphrase, that philosophers have described the World, now its on us to change it. Because as I was listening to the various voices, female and male expressing ill formed, idiotic, backwards, with the thoughtful and enlightening thinking sprinkled in between, it captured that world description, minus the change it part. Even though I was able to reflect on when I have also been demeaning and derisive towards females as a cultural normalcy, I still, then recognized distinction, that yes I demeaned or insulted a specific female, even a clique of females, still I knew that WOMAN was to be respected and accorded dignity. Of course, my level of the respect and acknowledgement of dignity, reflected and was an expression of, what I then knew. I say all of this to say, the attitudes and perspectives I was hearing coming through my headphones this morning were to put it simply, alien. Especially when I juxtapose what I know about the typical Woman in the life of the American Prisoner, which to be specific, for purpose of this work, the Virginian Woman in the life of the Virginia Prisoner, against the ridiculous caricaturization of females, on the airwaves of Texas this morning. Before I begin, when I talk about the Woman in the life of the American prisoner. Let's take the legendary champion Women Basketball Player, MAYA MOORE, who is now Maya Moore-Iorns and if you're not familiar with her story, please take the time to delve. Because Maya Moore was an exceptional basketball player. She won Championship after Championship at the University of Connecticut and she continued winning when she turned pro with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA, whatever descriptive you can come up for her won't be enough. Then she gave it all up, she quit everything to devote and dedicate herself, the totality of her humanness, towards the work of freeing, JONATHAN IORNS a Missouri Prisoner, who she had come to the realization was falsely imprisoned. So Maya Moore did what the human being focused on a task does. As an end note to her story, not only did she accomplish her intention, but her last name is now, IORNS and they have to my knowledge a child. The behavior of Woman in the American Imprisonment Scheme isn't limited to Maya Moore as anecdote, but stories abound in all sorts of ways that speak to the incalculable strength of WOMAN to the American prisoner and this brings me to Virginia and KIMBERLY SNODGRASS. Recently Kim thanked me and,even though I understand where she's coming from, I still can't let it stand like that. Kimberly Snodgrass is a Mother who is dealing with the hell of having a Son imprisoned, while still having the mental, spiritual and emotional capacity to speak for us the Virginia Prisoner and she isn't by herself. From Stacey Thorpe, Michelle Griffin, Natasha White ,Fatimah Muwahhid, Dawn Bryant, Gaye Gardner to name just a pin drop of all our Virginia Women, who in small and large ways, with unfathomable strength, do what their humanness ask of them, not withstanding the tremendous obstacles thrown,tossed at them.The dehumanization they're subjected to because they dare say, Virginia prison official perform your duties lawfully. WE THANK YOU. 

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 YOU VOTED FOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER AS GOVERNOR, YOU TRUSTED HER JUDGMENT. WELL PEOPLE SHE'S ASKED FOR INPUT ON REFORMING VIRGINIA'S PRISON SYSTEM, THE LEAST TO BE DONE IS EMAIL IT By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: When as prisoners we file requests, engage the Grievance process and or subsequently file law suits. We are in no uncertain terms saying, a condition must be changed, improved on or to make a long story short reformed. Here we are in 2026, there are a lot of Virginia prisoners who probably have heard about me, but don't know me personally, because when I was at the age a lot of 'em are now, waging daily battles with the Virginia prison official, they were not born. My saying this isn't to establish nothing besides: there isn't much about Virginia's imprisonment scheme, to me, that is nuanced or novel, save for something a politician, a Virginia Politician at that has recently done, which is when Governor Abigail Spanberger recently publicly asked for "input" on reforming the prison system. I write to say this, we have to acknowledge and recognize when energy is being infused and directed, where none existed prior and Governor Spanberger is infusing and directing energy at Virginia's imprisonment circumstance where none existed. Now there is criticism of Governor Spanberger, which reporter Sandy Hausman recently aired in an article, presenting the position held by those whose sentiments animated the article, that, the Governor hasn't done enough. I write to make one and only one point, which is, for the first time in Virginia's history and I'll be on solid ground to include our National history, that a sitting Governor, a current Politician has publicly asked the People for INPUT on reforming a prison system. Whether or not people's expectations and anticipations are completely met isn't the point. The point is, Governor Abigail Spanberger has validated Virginia prisoner's, Family, Ally and Friends claims that Virginia's imprisonment scheme must be reformed, with her "public" ask for INPUT and all serious minded Virginians, including prisoners, especially prisoners have to recognize its significance. Now to get into the mechanics of what the Governor is asking. It presents an unstated proposition. Which is, her ask is intended to debunk the anti-prisoner narrative, which goes like this: Politicians shouldn't spend political capital on reforming imprisonment, because no one really cares about prisoners, or there isn't political gain in its reformation. As I've already developed in another work on this topic, there are on the low or conservative side, 675,000 Virginians directly impacted by the life condition of the Virginia prisoner. So if 10% will express their concerns by contacting the Governor with INPUT, not only is that a consequential reality, but it now shows future politicians that speaking on imprisonment issues in the reform context are not political suicide but a win. Secondly, everything in our human condition is about "speech", and who is saying what. Speech creates space by legitimizing an issue with its elevation and there isn't a higher elevation or amplification of an issue than a Governor speaking on it. Governor Spanberger has done that. So now its on the People of Virginia to simply get on their key boards and tap out their concerns to the Governor. The approximately 45,000+ Virginia prisoner should remind family, ally and friends of this simple fact and that the cut off date is September 4th,2026 to email input, which also means views and concerns of the imprisonment scheme. Now here is also what is primary: despite, Governor Spanberger's speech on an issue doesn't in no form or manner define how we as the People grasp it. Governor Spanberger is a Governor with its own specific interests, We are the People, our interest encompasses hers.

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 

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEP AND HAND WRINGIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII WAS DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND AGAINST THE TRUMP PACKED SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: The Supreme Court of Hawaii was doing it's normal appellate function in a case GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 Haw. Lexis 179 on July 15, 2026. The case was about the 1990 conviction of Daniel R. Granillo for kidnapping and sexual assault. A FBI Agent Wayne Oakes provided expert testimony of scientific analysis that essentially convicted Mr. Granillo. Then in 2017, The United States Department of Justice informed Hawaiian Officials, that basically, FBI Agent Wayne Oakes expert testimony was false. Resulting in the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruling on July 15, 2026; that Mr. Granillo must be given a new trial. So, in writing the unanimous decision of the Court, Justice Todd W. Eddins, found cause to expose the fraudulent work of the Republicans and Conservatives on the Supreme Court of the United States in no uncertain terms that is basis of the title of this work and is germane to our work or reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Maybe, there is precedent for Justice Eddins exposé, nonetheless it is invaluable and instructive, to our understanding of, Law, the Social Contract and it's political-economy, accordingly below I excerpt it.

"We are not side-stepping anything. We are doing what state constitutionalism ask us to do. Stand our ground.....We interpret the Hawaii Constitution on its own terms. The United States Supreme Court's construction of the Federal DUE PROCESS CLAUSE does not define the protection of our State's DUE PROCESS CLAUSE. This Court " reason[s] independently, untethered from the Supreme Court's analysis of the United States Constitution" STATE v. WILSON 154 HAWAII 8 (2024). The Court that now defines Federal Due Process does not honor the work of 1954. It revives the work of 1857.The work of 1896. The Constitution must be interpreted "according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted". DRED SCOTT v. STANDFORD 60 U.S. 393 (1857). Today's hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life. See CITY and CNTY. OF HONOLULU v. SUNOCO LP. 153 HAWAII 326 (2022) (EDDINS J. Concurring) ("A Justice's personal values and ideas about the very old days suddenly control the lives of present and future generations"). The Court overrides what Congress passed. It overrides what the People chose. All to serve it's own ends. What this Court has done to Constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaii's Constitution takes no instruction from it. Article I section 5 provides versatile and sovereign protection. The Court does not anchor Hawaii's Due Process rights to the Federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. We take no guidance on the meaning of Due Process from a court that gutted due process protections in DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORG. 597 U.S. 215 (2022) ZUFFANTE called it straight DOBBS erased a " generation-long constitutional right, stripping autonomy from half the population, and empowering States to force births" STATE v. ZUFFANTE 157 HAWAII 194 (2022). Article I section 5 does not import that results-driven approach to due process. We follow Principles, not Agendas.The Supreme Court's imperious ideology does not stop at Due Process. The same jurisprudence has created Democracy itself.Start with the Voting Rights Act.The Roberts Court did what Congress never would.It rewrote the VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965,a cornerstone of American Civil Rights,Democratically enacted and repeatedly reauthorized. SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER 570 U.S.529(2013),began the judicial demolition, inventing a textually unsupported equal-sovereignty fiction and striking down preclearance on a hunch that the law worked too well. BRANOVICH v. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 594 U.S. 647(2021),fabricated "guideposts" nowhere in SECTION 2 to greenlight racial discrimination in voting. LOUISIANA v. CALLAIS 146 S. Ct. 1231 (2026), buried what remained of the crown jewel of the Civil Rights movement. Pretend law for a real statute. The Court then ditched its own thirty-two day default for releasing decisions and hustled out its judgement mid-primary,a favor granted over objection only twice in twenty-five years. CALLAIS v.LOUISIANA 146 S.Ct.1111(2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Weeks later, on it's shadow docket, the Court tossed an eleven-day trial record built on fifty-one witnesses,790 exhibits, 2,600 pages of testimony, and a 270-page opinion by a Three-Judge Court. See SINGLETON v. ALLEN 782 F.Supp.3d 1092 (N.D.Ala.2025). It resurrected a tainted congressional map the Three-Judge factfinders found deliberately entrenched racial bias against Black voters. ALLEN v. MILLIGAN 146 S. Ct 1377 (2026). see also HILO BAY MARINA v. STATE 156 HAWAII 478 (2025) (the "Courts" frequent misrepresentation of the factual record and it's throw-judges- under-the-bus disdain for District Courts, the fact finders of the Federal judiciary, harm the Justice System. The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV sec. I. It turns it's back on what is in plain sight. The FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT is not colorblind. It never was. The Court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black History. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design. A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind. It is whatever the Court needs it to be. A way to advance its partisan project. The damage to democracy extends beyond the Voting Rights Act. In CITIZENS UNITED v. FED.ELECTION COMM'N 558 U.S. 310 (2010), the Court claimed fidelity to text, history, and tradition while invalidating yet another democratically vetted law, handing corporations the same speech rights as flesh-and- blood Americans and letting dollars talk louder than voters. See SUNOCO 153 HAWAII at 362 (EDDINS, J. concurring) (originalism applies selectively and vanishes inconveniently) LEO E. STRINE, Jr. and NICHOLAS WALTER, ORIGINALISTS OR ORIGINAL: THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECONCILING CITIZENS UNITED WITH CORPORATE LAW HISTORY 91 NOTRE DAME L .Rev. 877 (2016) (CITIZENS UNITED cannot be reconciled with corporate law history). Other decisions followed. The Court abandoned partisan gerrymandering to the gerrymanderers, refusing for the first time to remedy a constitutional violation because it believed the task beyond judicial competence. RUCHO v. COMMON CAUSE 588 U.S.684 (2019) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). It placed a President above the law. TRUMP v. UNITED STATES 603 U.S.593 (2024). Last month, NAT'L REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMM.v. FEC 225 L.ED. 2d 998 (2026).Made CITIZENS UNITED look quaint, shredding coordinated spending limits Congress had enacted and ensuring that those who bankroll elections drown out the ordinary person. Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one's wealth counts more than another's vote. Rulings run in one direction time after time. Weakening protections for those with less power. Fortifying those with more. The pattern speaks for itself. A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaii Constitution. Our Constitualism system was designed for times like these. Federalism is not a formality. It is the architecture. The framers built dual sovereignty into the structure of American government as an independent check against concentrated Federal power. A Supreme Court driven by agenda and intent on swiping power that belongs to the people is exactly what that check was built for. When six Justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design. State Constitualism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence "white noise". See HILO BAY MARINA 156 HAWAII at 518. Add it all up. Draining Due Process. Rolling back voting rights. Flooding elections with money. Rubber stamping gerrymandering. Crowning a President. Blessing discrimination in the name of the Constitution. FULTON v. CITY of PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 593 U.S.522 (2021) 303 CREATIVE LLC. v. ELENIS 600 U.S.570 (2023).Looking at naked racism and seeing none of it. MULLIN v. DOE 225 L.ED.2d 594 (2026) ( racist words not "overtly racist").Making the country more dangerous with a SECOND AMENDMENT unmoored from text or history and unrecognizable to the framers who wrote it. NEW YORK STATE RIFLE and PISTOL ASS'N INC v. BRUEN 597 U.S.1 (2022), WILSON 154 HAWAII at 22 ("disabl[ing] the state responsibility to protect public safety, reduce gun violence, and safeguard peaceful public movement" with its deadly jurisprudence). Then striking down a carefull law and showing disdain for Hawaii's Constitutional traditions. WOLFORD v. LOPEZ 225 L. ED 2d 494 (2026). Subverting Congressional choices with a homemade "major questions" power grab that plays "get-out-of-text-free cards" to block agencies from doing what Congress told them to do.WEST VIRGINIA v. ENV'T PROT.AGENCY 597 U.S. 697 (2022) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). Then commandeering the interpretive authority Congress gave federal agencies, over ruling CHEVRON after forty years because to this particular Court, precedent is advisory. LOPER BRIGHT ENTERS. v. RAIMONDO 603 U.S.369 (2024). This term, transmuting Federal spending programs into private contracts, the Court forced the SPENDING CLAUSE to "reduce some of Congress greatest legislative achievements" LANDOR v. LOUISIANA DEP'T of CORR. and PUB.SAFETY 225 L.ED.2d.394 (2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Days later, it freed the President to fire at will the very Commissioners a law sheltered from removal, discarding a unanimous opinion, HUMPHREY'S EXECUTOR on a cherry-picked slice of history-a century of settled practice recast as a mistake, competent governance sacrificed to the partisan cause. TRUMP v. SLAUGHTER 225 L.ED.2d 664 (2026). The next morning, fair-weather textualists-living constitution originalists, really-deserted the text and our Nation's history the moment it promised citizenship, one vote from writing that right out of the Constitution. TRUMP v. BARBARA 225 L.ED. 2d 876 (2026). That's not all life tenure and zero accountability have produced lately. But its enough. Article I. Section 5 needs no part of this. The Hawaii Constitution was built to stand on its own. And so it does" [excerpted GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 HAW.LEXIS 179,,JUSTICE TODD W.EDDINS WRITING THE UNANIMOUS OPINION]. As I initially stated Justice Eddins words are extremely instructive for our reform work of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and it is also fundamentally revelatory to our understanding. What Justice Eddins words speak to is that maxim, history is written by the victor or told from the conquerors point of view. Which as maxim isn't only applicable to conquest, but as insight, lengths are travelled by in whose interest, to conceal such. Because the operative is, who will SPEAK. Again, what Justice Eddins words reveal is, as long as the reaction is silence then, the maxim of the "victor", or as it applys to our reform work, the status quo claiming the narrative is then self-fulfilling. All Justice Eddins said about the Supreme Court of the United States is correct, just as what we say about the Virginia prison official.

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 

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 

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