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
“Independent analysis of Virginia’s political culture, prisons, and state power.”
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
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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 a recent work critiquing the fraudulent thought of the anti-parole proponent, I excerpted Pastor Harvey Yoder's assertions in his Newsletter, HARDTIME VIRGINIA SUMMER 2026 Vol. II No.2, expressing the prevailing concerns held by Virginia Prison Reformers that Governor Abigail Spanberger's, newly constituted Parole Board isn't, to quote Pastor Yoder, being "generous" in providing parole to the imprisoned Virginian. My position on Pastor Harvey Yoder and his advocacy for the Virginia Prisoner, is clear, I respect his intentions and efforts for us. However my ability to critique Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is naturally blunt, than that of our allies who are on the free side of the razored concertina fences of Virginia's Koncentration Kamps, because as Prisoner, I'm its material value. So where the non-imprisoned expectedly encounter the Organized-Violence infrastructure of the imprisonment scheme within the contextual-civil reasonableness of interactions in the free World, within the Prison context the dynamic, is simply at odds. For example, Pastor Yoder expressed his and others expectations and anticipations that the new Parole Board would be, "generous in offering release to deserving men and women in prison". Well it isn't that a Prisoner isn't ever ready for release, but when the character of "parole" has been completely disconnected and perverted from its purpose by the politics of scapegoatism, whether as a calculated and deliberate gambit or as a natural understandable human stirring of vindictiveness. Parole isn't perceived as a "generous" dispensation, which would require a farcical mental framing between the Prisoner and the affirmative letter of its grant. Which is the fundamental dishonesty at the heart of the parole narrative as it currently exist. Which for example causes travesties as the unanimous approval of Virginia's newly minted Parole Bill HB 1030 sponsored by Republican Wilt and is now Virginia law Codified at Va. Code 53.1-151.1, to emerge in bright Sun Light. We see the dishonesty and its farcical application, when the new Parole Board uses its existence as excuse and apology for not granting Parole, on the spurious assertion that its full implementation is required, when come on People the Law itself clearly and unequivocally states that, "nothing [in the law] shall prohibit the Board from making its final determination on whether or not to grant discretionary parole.....", meaning besides it's ex post facto harmful effects, the Parole Board can reject its pronouncements as not even worthy of the spectacle of its legislature unanimity. But none of this is the point, which is: Prison Reform means and requires a defiant interrogation and scrutiny of what is reform? Because if we accept Reform as a boon, a dispensation from what? when everything about Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme reeks with the stench of its chattel enslavement utility as genesis. Because what currently exist is a systematic corruption, that still is yet to redeem itself from its inability to confront itself. Pastor Yoder gives us insight when he says, "My understanding after talking with others with the same concerns is that the Board is getting themselves set up with a process for making the best possible decisions while receiving a lot of new information to train themselves as NONE OF THEM HAVE EVER DONE THIS BEFORE". [all caps my emphasis]. This acceptance by Pastor Yoder makes my point, that due to the betrayal of the original purpose and character of Parole, we can forget that Jurys that convict and impose all sorts of sentences HAVE ALSO NEVER DONE SUCH BEFORE.
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
What the remaining process of Parole in Virginia teaches is the mechanics of it's usurpation and subornation, by undemocratic and illiberal reactionary forces in Virginia. Another lesson the anti-Parole stance allows is, even though we, on the side of Virginia Prison reform, are aware that deceptiveness is the motive force of it's thought, it allows and permits the Virginia People to begin to see for themselves the depths of its intellectual fraudulence and corrupt character. Because the fundamental purpose of Parole, Pardons e.t.c within a Justice system, is uncomplicatedly clear to the most apathetic socio-person, that not only does it present and preserve that ability for a Society, as Virginia to claim being Civilized. But it is a practical nod and recognition to the fact the "Justice" process and its adjudication outcome is dependent on any number of existing factors, which the availability, would and could have produced a completely different result. So Parole along with the other processes of Pardons, Commutations and Clemencies, exist to state that a Society isn't hubristic that it isn't capable of being intellectually honest to recognize the validity of the critique that the socio-person, doesn't experience the adjudicative Due-Process of Law, equally with the necessary resources to comprehensively access it and command its equitable attention and professionalism. It is commonly stated that there isn't a single aspect of Society or a Social Contract that isn't a critique-portal of its whole and the Speech of the anti-Parole folks in the Commonwealth of Virginia, again proves it. Because when Virginia Republicans under the titular leadership of Governor George Allen of the Macaca racist slur infamy, with the collaboration of Virginia's Corporate Media and the complicity of silence from Virginia's status quo or legacy Institutions, abolished Parole in 1995 they knew what they were doing. But as insidious as the abolishment was, it complied with Virginia's Legislative Process. Where the intellectual fraud of the anti-Parole proponent since, stands naked, is in the intellectual distortion they resort to in attacking the remaining Parole process available for eligible Virginia Prisoners. Which is this: they disingenuously and pathetically indulge in the insults of redefining, words, they present unscrupulous framing of the dictatorship of intent, which simply is Parole exist to release the Prisoner from imprisonment. So, when we see the imposition of an idealistic scheme as the work of a parole board, what we instantly recognize is, this process is extra-judicial and ad hoc. Because even though Virginia's Parole Board is a creation of legislative action, its process is ambiguously arbitrary and "legally" capricious. At this point in this work, I want to excerpt the assertions of a Virginian who is dedicated to reforming Virginia's prisons and holding the Virginia prison official accountable. [Pastor Harvey Yoder a Mennonite and Co-Founder of the VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, whose advocacy work for the Virginia Prisoner, I highly respect].Recently wrote in his newsletter HARDTIME VIRGINIA SUMMER 2026 Vol. II No.2, under the Header WHAT'S UP WITH THE NEW PAROLE BOARD? and I excerpt "Most of us were hopeful that the newly appointed Parole Board sworn in in March would be more generous in offering release to deserving men and women in prison. [He continues] "While this may seem puzzling, my understanding after talking with others with the same concerns is that the Board is getting themselves set up with a process for making the best possible decision while receiving a lot of new information to train themselves, as none of them have ever done this before".He makes my point.
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
Equivocation on the position of reform of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme, also includes this. The argument advanced by some that certain critiques of the Virginia Politician ally of the Virginia Prison Official, is harsh and therefore counterproductive. This specific argument isn't limited to the work of Prison Reform in Virginia but is historically typical of any type of reform Speech, meaning activity, of any System. So, the fact that it appears within the context of Virginia Prison Reform only attest to the potency of the ongoing Speech or activity of holding the Virginia Prison Official Accountable. However, there is another aspect of equivocation, not that it is intentional, but the results or consequences are the same nonetheless and it is also to a degree another bane of reform, irrespective of context. I want to focus a bit on this aspect, because it undermines and enables division of unity among the People. Again this disunity isn't intentional, still the result and consequence are disastrous. I BEGIN: The Virginia Prisoner exist as a created entity of Virginia Law, not as classes but as class. Whatever classification and category appears as designation, isn't for the purpose of treatment but control. What I mean is the Virginia Prisoner is created as objective of a controlling intent. Let me say this, the mechanism of the transformation of the Virginia Socio-person into the Virginia Prisoner, is "control", besides the fact that activity ensured the intensification of control as in imprisonment, the existence of the dictatorship of intent, as dynamic of Virginia's Social Contract is the driver. What this means is the intention of controlling, perceives the transformed previous socio-person into Prisoner, as having been forever "Identified". So whether the descriptive "violent or nonviolent" is ascribed contextually to a Virginia Prisoner, it has nothing to do and isn't an operative of the one and only qualifier of subject within the human condition and its business of human existence, which is, what is the manner and level of contribution towards the progressive Development of the business of human existence. I am using the descriptive, violent and nonviolent, because it is the most casual means of disunity among the People. I'm using "People", not as a category of Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner, but all of the People including reactionaries and the basic garden variety misanthrope, because the reactionary and misanthrope exist not as a function of objective "thought", but its lack. Because what logic of defense of being in opposition to the social positive work of ensuring subordination of the Virginia Prison official as function of Virginia governance, to the Accountability-Function Supremacy of the People, can be asserted as, in pursuit of and towards the progressive Development of the business of human existence? Other than to simply exist within that idealistic realm of fraudulent thought. Yet we encounter numbers of us pushing for reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, saying, the nonviolent prisoner should be rehabilitated at the expense of the "violent" and regardless of the intent of the argument being presented, what happens is the controlling dictatorship of intent simply welcomes the disunity and exploits it, not in the affirmation of the accountability-function, but as a co-opting gambit. So what we have to come to terms with, within the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia Prison official accountable, is formulation and application of recognition and treatment of the Virginia Prisoner, must firstly acknowledge the Accountability-Function.
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