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

William Thorpe and the Long Arc of Virginia’s Carceral History

 

How one incarcerated writer diagnoses four centuries of punishment in Virginia

William Thorpe’s writing does not merely critique the modern Virginia Department of Corrections. It anticipates and exposes the entire historical character of imprisonment in Virginia, from the colonial era to the present. When you place his arguments alongside the documented evolution of Virginia’s punishment system, the continuity is unmistakable. Thorpe is not describing an aberration — he is describing a 400‑year operating system.

Below is the full comparative analysis.

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I. Colonial Virginia (1607–1776): Punishment as Social Control

Historical Character

• No real prison system; jails were temporary holding pens.
• Punishment was public, corporal, and meant to humiliate.
• Law existed to protect hierarchy, not justice.
• Enslaved Africans were controlled through violence, not courts.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe repeatedly argues that Virginia’s system was never designed for justice, only for domination. His insistence that the state’s power structure is inherently corrupt and self‑protective mirrors the colonial reality exactly. He writes as if he knows — intuitively — that the system’s moral foundation was rotten from the beginning.

Thorpe’s core claim:
“This system was built to control, not correct.”
That is precisely the colonial model.

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II. Antebellum Virginia (1776–1861): Two Systems, One Logic

Historical Character

• Virginia builds the Richmond Penitentiary in 1796.
• Reform rhetoric for white offenders; labor discipline for them.
• Enslaved people remain under a separate, extrajudicial regime of violence.
• Criminal law is selectively applied.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s writing is obsessed with dual systems — one for the powerful, one for the powerless. He describes:

• selective enforcement
• manufactured criminality
• racialized punishment
• the state’s refusal to apply its own rules to itself

This is exactly the antebellum structure:
a penitentiary for whites, and a plantation prison for Blacks.

Thorpe is diagnosing the same split logic: punishment as a tool of racial hierarchy.

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III. Reconstruction & Jim Crow (1865–1900): Criminalization Replaces Slavery

Historical Character

• Black Codes and vagrancy laws criminalize freedpeople.
• Convict leasing and chain gangs extract labor from Black bodies.
• The penitentiary becomes a racial labor machine.
• The state discovers the economic value of incarceration.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

This is where Thorpe’s writing becomes prophetic.

Thorpe argues that:

• conviction is the new slavery
• prisoners are commodities
• officials profit from captivity
• the system is racialized by design

He is describing the exact logic of convict leasing — the most brutally exploitative period in Virginia’s penal history. Thorpe’s analysis of economic extraction, racial targeting, and bureaucratic cruelty is a direct continuation of the post‑war carceral economy.

He is writing from inside the afterlife of slavery, and he names it with precision.

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IV. 20th Century: Bureaucratic Expansion & Administrative Violence

Historical Character

• More prisons, more categories of offenses.
• Parole boards, classification systems, administrative layers.
• Racial disparities deepen.
• The system becomes more “professional,” but not more humane.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s critique of:

• administrative opacity
• procedural cruelty
• “policy as punishment”
• officials hiding behind paperwork

…is exactly how historians describe the 20th‑century shift from overt domination to bureaucratic domination.

Thorpe understands that cruelty no longer needs a whip — it only needs a form, a policy, a signature.

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V. Post‑1995 Virginia: Abolition of Parole & Permanent Warehousing

Historical Character

• Parole abolished for new offenses.
• Truth‑in‑sentencing entrenches long‑term confinement.
• Pre‑1995 prisoners stranded in a system that pretends to offer release.
• Mass incarceration becomes the default.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s writing on:

• the collapse of parole
• the political weaponization of “public safety”
• the abandonment of rehabilitation
• the moral bankruptcy of VADOC

…is a direct continuation of the historical arc. He is describing the logical endpoint of a system that has always preferred control over correction.

Thorpe sees that Virginia’s modern prison system is not a break from the past — it is the past perfected.

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VI. The Continuity: Thorpe’s Central Insight

Across all eras, Thorpe identifies the same structural traits that define Virginia’s punishment system:

1. Control over justice

From colonial whipping posts to modern classification systems.

2. Racial hierarchy as the organizing principle

From slave codes to Black Codes to disproportionate sentencing.

3. Economic extraction from captive bodies

From plantations to convict leasing to prison labor.

4. Bureaucratic self‑protection

From planter courts to modern DOC administrators.

5. Manufactured criminality

From vagrancy laws to modern “technical violations.”

Thorpe’s writing is not merely commentary — it is a theory of the Virginia carceral state, one that aligns with every major historical phase.

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VII. Conclusion: Thorpe as a Historian of the Present

Thorpe’s work anticipates the entire history of Virginia’s imprisonment scheme because he is living inside its final form. His writing is the culmination of four centuries of:

• racial control
• economic exploitation
• bureaucratic cruelty
• political manipulation

He is not just describing the system — he is revealing its deep structure, the part that has remained unchanged from 1607 to 2026.

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By vapac

VIRGINIA PRISONERS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES EXPOSING THE LAW VIOLATIONS OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,SEE WHAT IT'S OWN EMPLOYEES ARE SAYING IN COURT ABOUT THEIR UNCONSCIONABLE EXPERIENCES By William Thorpe

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In a recent work, titled, VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES/MAGA AND LAW VIOLATIONS BY THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL.I made the point that the work of holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable needs unimpeachable facts that go beyond the abuse and dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner. Now just making this point shows and is revelatory of how the cognizance and understanding of the Constituted aspirations of The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia has been deliberately, purposefully assailed and insidiously degraded by the generality of impunity and its concurrent exacerbation and utility of weaponizing the, and ensuring disunity among the people, due to the strategy of conditionality of access to the Due Process of Law and its Equality wielded by the Commonwealth's reactionary elements and forces, specifically the Virginia Republican, Conservatives and their currently manifested Maga spasming, allied with among others, the Virginia prison official as representative and reflective of the actual function of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, as a pining for a savage, decrepit and counterintuitive political-economy formulation, that has no more a claim to purpose, than a mere fleeting hedonistic gratuitous violence and its name is sadism. In other words Virginia's Social Contract is a rudderless vessel lurching hither, thither in the tempest of impunity, which then is the environment, the work of wrangling the accountability-function of governance on the above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official, is engaged on. In pursuit of perverting the Constituted aspirations of the People of The Commonwealth, its foot soldiers, the usual reactionaries have successfully associated the work of the equity of equality under law and its anti-impunity function of holding the Virginia prison official accountable, as "being soft on crime", as such the Virginia prison official can be caught red handed committing the most egregious violation against the imprisoned Virginian and the Republican and Conservative ally will be trotted out, spouting and spewing the most inane comments in it's defense and the Virginia citizenry, by being inoculated against recognizing that the prison official's professional behavior is pure, simple and unbridled criminality, compromising the necessary faith and trust they have to have in the Rule of Law will bristle against being reminded that it is. So what the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable requires is a more complete and practical narrative that reveals and exposes the systemic impunity of the Virginia Department of Corrections from its own employees. Listed are some claims in court actions by employees, ranging from sexual assaults, gender discrimination, hostile work environment, employee on employee assault, racism and all-around egregious behavior.

ALCAZAR v. Va. Dept.of Corr.2024 U.S. Dist. Lexis 156850 PATTERSON v. Va .Dept.of Corr.2024 U.S. Dist. Lexis 72197 BLACKSHEAR v. Va. Dept. Corr. 2021 U.S. Dist. Lexis 264460 GEORGE v. BROWN 2025 U.S. Dist. Lexis 259131 [pay ATTN.to the behavior of Sgt. BROWN] Va. Dept. of Corr .v. COMPTON 47 VA.App.202 HALEY v. Va. Dept. of Corr. 2023 VA. App. Lexis 493 COMMONWEALTH v. NEEDHAM 55 VA. App.316 Va. Dept. of Corr. v. BISHOP 75 VA. App.1 SPICER v. VIRGINIA 66 F.3d 705 FLORES v. Va Dept .of Corr.2021 U.S. Dist. Lexis 31857

KNOSKIE v VA Dept of Corr 2017 U.S. V Dist. Lexis 22719

McCURDY v. Va Dept of Corr 2016 U.S. Dist. Lexis 169611

McCURDY v, Va Dept of Corr 2017 U.S. Dist Lexis 142788 The People would know about these if our Media did their job.

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

VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES/MAGA AND LAW VIOLATIONS BY THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL By William Thorpe

Virginia Republicans/Conservatives/Maga are yet to encounter law violations by The Virginia Prison Official in their professional behavior that causes them to "act" like they remember that they are the ones who perennially claim to be all about "law and order", which is a sneaky, sleight of hand way of deceiving the People of the Commonwealth, that, law and order means anti-impunity and its equality under law thesis. But the truth and reality is the Virginia Republican/Conservative and Maga have a more backwards and insidious characterization and motive of and for their "law and order" parrot, which has nothing to do with the left to the people to swallow its hook and sinker, self-checking utility by having them fill in its definition blanks, according to The People's naveté, biases, fears, ignorances, illiteracy, suppositions and that ever present, self-interest. In other words, the Virginia Republican "law and order" polemic is your classic Rorschach test. I BEGIN: In our work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable, in extension compelling the accountability-function of our Virginia Government and the administration of governance, our focus isn't to get caught up in the mindless mire of chasing hypocrisies and corruption, because Republicans/Conservatives/Maga haven't cornered the market nor monopolized that human disposition to be "full of it", (which as an aside is the reason why the narrative exposing the all too real crimes of The Trump administration and his merryband, is in this up hill battle of " why can't the people see the obvious".Because, how can a Democrat or Progressive indicit MAGA, when for example that wink and nod of "law and order", is also exploited as, Class Interest ?) But what our work firmly stands on is no one is irreproachable and its above-the-lawism impunity. In other words we are not concerned with idealistic recognitions of humanness, which at this juncture I make my point with this soliloquy as homily from the movie CONCLAVE,as delivered by the character CARDINAL LAWRENCE and I quote, "CERTAINTY, CERTAINTY IS THE GREAT ENEMY OF UNITY. CERTAINTY IS THE DEADLY ENEMY OF TOLERANCE.EVEN CHRIST WAS NOT CERTAIN AT THE END, "MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME? "HE CRIED OUT IN HIS AGONY AT THE 9th HOUR ON THE CROSS.OUR FAITH IS A LIVING THING PRECISELY BECAUSE IT WALKS HAND IN HAND WITH DOUBT, IF THERE WAS ONLY CERTAINTY AND NO DOUBT, THERE WOULD BE NO MYSTERY AND THEREFORE NO NEED FOR FAITH" [from THE MOVIE CONCLAVE].So what is the Virginia Republican position? It is "certainty" that the Virginia prison official is irreproachable and above the law and this stance is extended to all law enforcement in general, despite the fact the Virginia Republican isn't that delusional to deny that accountability is an inexorable fact. Still, due to the intoxication of self-interest and its nihilism along with the complicity of The People regardless of reason we lurch from one antagonism to the next, at the expense of our Constituted Social Contractual aspirations. As such what our work requires are unimpeachable facts, on which our narrative of prison reform in Virginia is realized. Our unimpeachable facts are not intended to accomplish nothing less than present to the People of The Commonwealth, that the narrative of accountability of the Virginia prison official isn't simply limited to Prisoner abuse, but is symptomatic of their anti-subordination attitude to the will of the People of the Commonwealth.

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

IN 2024 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, OVER TURNED A 1984 CASE, CHEVRON U.S.A INC. v. NRDC 467 U.S 837 THAT JUDGES HAD BEEN USING TO ALLOW PRISON OFFICIAL B.S, SO LETS TALK ABOUT IT'S REPLACEMENT By William Thorpe

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In 2024 The Supreme Court of The United States ruled in a case LOPER BRIGHT ENTERS. v. RAIMONDO 603 U.S 369 and I quote "Chevron, U.S.A INC. v. NRDC INC.467 U.S.837 is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority as the APA requires. Chevron deference precludes Courts from exercising the Judicial Power vested in them by Article III to say what the law is. The only way to ensure that the law will not merely change erratically, but will develop in a principled and intelligible fashion, is to leave Chevron behind." [okay that was in summation the sophistry of those 6 Justices, namely, ROBERTS, THOMAS, ALITO, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH and BARRETT who agreed to overturn Chevron and the 3 dissenters were KAGAN, SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON. There is something funny about a lot of this stuff and its more pronounced and in a lot of ways childishly striking with how it comes across that they've forgotten that its supposed to be about the People, that they're dealing with people, yeah the human being, the socio-person and personhood, yes socio-personhood] Before I continue I need to stipulate that, I'm not flag waving or burning it over none of the jurisprudence coming out of the current Supreme Court of The United States, but their work actually does serve a real and consequential purpose, which is it enables the amplification of that necessary speech of that, 3.5% of the population, who are clear eyed and clamoring, that the Emperor has no clothes. Here is a reminder of what The Chevron case which came to be characterized as the Chevron Deference, or for the Prisoner and as it concerns this work the Virginia Prisoner. So in 1984, The Supreme Court of The United States ruled, "That if a statute was silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for a Court was whether the Agency's action was based on a permissible construction of the statute. Further considerable weight was to be accorded to an Agency's construction of a statutory scheme." [again the sophistry of this also cuts both ways, for one "agencies" mean and are function of the Executive or The President or as specific to Virginia The Governor, the executive is tasked with executing and defending the law, with the implication, of as is fit. Now what I want to point out is this simple fact.

The only absolute is ACCOUNTABILITY, regardless and irrespective of context, which is to simply say, if you are unable to swim, regardless of reason, it's accountability, is drowning. However at any point in the accountability process of drowning, there can be intercession, again irrespective of means. So for example a Dolphin can intercede and save the drowning person. The point of all of this, the Supreme Court's rulings in both Chevron and Loper are inexorable formulations of that Social Contract, organic accountability-function that is that regardless of sophistry masterless relationship, irrespective of whether there is that stabilizing honesty of maintaining the integrity of the principle or that logical pursuit of, how do we do our human condition efficiently, meaning that accountable adherence to the business of the human condition, or we stay stuck in the delusional indulgence of the sophist permissibility of idealistic-dictatorship and its fiat bureaucracy of impunity, which is whether its Chevron and its colloquial deference or Loper and its tautology of "The only way to ensure that the law will not merely change erratically, but will develop in a principled and intelligible fashion....", the fact is neither jurisprudence is speaking to the existence of the accountability-function. During the reign and supremacy of Chevron and its kowtowing to agency interpretations and the relative applications, Judges had no problem with accepting the impunity of the prison official and as it relates to this work, the Virginia Prison Official, under the logic that the prison official shouldn't be second guessed because the job of administering the prison environment was an improbable undertaking, so Law, its application and supposedly all-seeing eye had to avert its gaze from the debased professional behavior of the prison official, nevertheless the fact that the pursuit of justice and its repair of harm, is again supposedly blind, meaning a purported "equality under law". The issue however is the human condition and its Social Contract expression anticipates the emergence and presence of, "contradictions", which arguments evidenced as the Chevron Deference are, but what is human condition bane are antagonisms, which denials and reluctances to recognize and acknowledge, that cause and effects are systemic ,is. So now that we are in this LOPER BRIGHT world, how do we understand it's activity for our purpose, our work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable. First of all since the Supreme Court gave us LOPER BRIGHT, only two States have confronted it in State criminal justice circumstances. Namely, Minnesota in KAMBON v. STATE 23 N.W 3d 576 (2025) [ and in this Minnesota encounter the existence of Loper Bright caused Minnesota to make a farce of its very own jurisprudence, which proves and underscores the tautology of Loper Bright]. Then, Florida tangled with Loper Bright in a State Habeas construction, BATES v. STATE 416 So.3d 312 (2025) [again another comical encounter with Loper Bright].But then in this Connecticut State case we see a defiance to the dismissal of Chevron, so in WILLIAMS v. ARI of CONN.INC. 2024 CONN SUPER LEXIS 1786, we see a Connecticut court declaring that the annihilation and dismissal of Chevron and its colloquial deference doesn't mean it "no longer applys in State Court". Both CHEVRON and LOPER BRIGHT deal with the the actual practice of Government and governance, through the agents or "Agencies" of its administration. The Virginia Department of Corrections as Agency, an agent of The Government of The Commonwealth of Virginia, under VIRGINIA'S ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS ACT. Code 2.2-4000 is directed and tasked with imprisoning people, while denying Prisoners its process.

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