Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee

Saturday, June 13, 2026

🔥 VIRGINIA POLITICIANS SELL OUT THE VIRGINIA PRISONER — AGAIN

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Virginia just added a new section to the Code of Virginia:

📘 § 40.1‑44.2 — “Standards for Heat Illness Prevention”
Title 40.1 (Labor and Employment), Chapter 3 (Protection of Employees)

This law forces employers — including VADOC — to protect employees from dangerous heat.
Water. Shade. Rest breaks. Emergency plans.
The state now officially recognizes that 80°F is a health hazard.

But here’s the contradiction William Thorpe exposed for decades:

Virginia acknowledges the dangers of imprisonment for the people who run the prisons,
while denying those same dangers for the people trapped inside them.

The Commonwealth protects the job‑related risks of correctional officers, but refuses to acknowledge the human‑destroying impact of imprisonment on the incarcerated.
Thorpe wrote it plainly: Virginia will regulate the workplace — but never the cage.

And this new heat law proves it.

✔ VADOC employees get:

  • Cooling access
  • Water
  • Rest cycles
  • High‑heat protocols
  • Emergency response protections

✘ Incarcerated people get:

  • No temperature limits
  • No cooling access
  • No heat‑illness protections
  • No emergency protocols
  • No recognition that cells routinely hit 90–100°F

Virginia politicians know the heat is dangerous — they just decided only employees deserve protection, while incarcerated people are left to suffer the full impact of extreme heat with no relief and no rights.

Another sellout.
Another betrayal.
Another reminder that in Virginia, the system protects itself first — and the prisoner last.

By vapac/William Thorpe

Monday, June 8, 2026

SOCIETY IS CONSTRUCTED ON IDEAS PART III By William Thorpe

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In Parts I and II, I reminded us that despite voting for Politicians of ones choice to speak for, present and defend those concerns and issues we suppose the Politician will embody. The real work is staying abreast with the deluge of persuasions provided by the Idea Industry influencing the Politician to speak and represent unfamiliar positions from those expressed during the campaign. These persuasions loom large in Social and Criminal Justice issues meaning this work of holding the Virginia Prison Official Accountable. So, what I have been doing is providing a catalog of materials influencing not only Policy making Politicians, but Judges who endorse and base their Jurisprudence on the arguments set forth in the efforts of the Idea Industry as such it makes sense that the Virginia electorate is firmly grounded in the logic being spun by Government. Listed are a continuation of my efforts to assist, Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner attain a deeper grasp of the ideas materializing as Virginia's Imprisonment scheme and once again let me stress that despite the fact my focus is Virginia specific the universe of the labors of the Idea Industry, impacts all State and The Federal Prison System as such it can be shared with all.
STRAIGHT TO VIDEO: AMERICA'S INMATES DEPRIVED OF A LIFELINE THROUGH VIDEO-ONLY VISITS---60 B.C.L.REV. 1243 by ALEXANDRE BOU-RHODES CALLING THE SUPREME COURT: PRISONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO TELEPHONE USE---92 B.C.L.REV. 369 by PETER R. SHULTS CHILDREN, PARENTS and THE STATE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FAMILY IDEOLOGY---26 BERKELEY J. GENDER L and JUST.78 by DESERIEE A. KENNEDY [cited in IN THE INTEREST OF F.C. 482 P.3d 1137---KANSAS CASE also in IN RE. E.M 2015-OHIO-642----OHIO CASE] GODS BEHIND BARS: PRISON GANGS, DUE PROCESS, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT---77 BROOKLYN L.REV.1598 by JUSTIN L. SOWA [cited in ALLAH v. VIRGINIA 2014 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 58529---VIRGINIA CASE] RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS PUNISHMENT----111 CALIF.L.REV.1305 by KATE WEISBURD [cited in UNITED STATES v. GIGLIO 126 F.4th 1039] RISK-NEEDS ASSESSMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES----52 AM.CRIM. L. REV. 231 by MELISSA HAMILTON and please pay attention to this essay because THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS uses it [cited in STATE v. GUISE N.W. 2d 26---IOWA CASE, also in STATE v. LAMBERT 2015-OHIO-5168----OHIO CASE, also in STATE v. LOOMIS 881 N.W.2d 749---WISCONSIN CASE] THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FAITH-BASED PRISON UNITS: ARTICLE:"THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS": A CONTINUED DISSECTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FAITH BASED PRISON UNITS---6 AVE MARIA L.REV.409 by LYNN S. BRANHAM A LIBERTY-BALANCING APPROACH TO CRIME---62 AM. CRIM. L. REV.156 by SHELDON A. EVANS JAIL (E) MAIL: FREE SPEECH IMPLICATIONS OF GRANTING INMATES ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SERVICES---11 WASH. J. L. TECH and ARTS 285 by BRENNEN J. JOHNSON [cited in BENNING v. COMM'R, GA DEPT.OF CORR. 71 F 4th 1324] SUFFRAGIST PRISONERS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING PRISONER PROTEST---53 AKRON L. REV. 279 by NICOLE B. GODFREY THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO SEXUAL AUTONOMY IN PRISON---56 AM.CRIM. L. REV.511 by YANIV KOT INSIDE AMERICA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: THE SUPREME COURT ON THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED AND THE INCACERATED: BROWN v. PLATA, THE ROBERTS COURT, AND THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON RIGHTS BEHIND BARS---46 AKRON L.REV. 519 by CHRISTOPHER E. SMITH AN ELASTIC AMENDMENT: JUSTICE STEPHEN G. BREYER'S FLUID CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH---79 ALB. L. REV. 403 by BENJAMIN PROMERANCE EXCEPTIONAL FREEDOM-THE ROBERTS COURT: THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE NEW ABSOLUTISM----76 SLR.L. REV. 409 by RONALD K. COLLINS  

The Idea Industry isn't only limited to Social and Criminal Justice issues. Generically the industry is commonly known as Think Tanks and we should pay attention.

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


Friday, June 5, 2026

CANCER CAUSING WATER AT VIRGINIA'S SUSSEX I STATE PRISON, ISNT NEW BUT IT ONCE AGAIN FRAMES THE ISSUE THAT THE FIGHT OVER VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME ISN'T JUST ABOUT CONDITIONS By William Thorpe

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Sussex I State Prison or better yet, Virginia's Koncentration Kamp at Sussex I, is built like a bunker to withstand a nuclear blast, but it is sinking, yes the earth beneath it is saying enough of this. From the cracks in its super structure, hinting at that "all the Kings men couldn't put it back together", to the trapped ghost of dead enslaved people, yes Sussex is haunted and what I'm saying isn't hearsay. I speak from first hand experience. Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is its own beast of Koncentration Kamp.[see my September 10, 2018 work on Sussex I, titled: A STORY OF PROFESSIONAL IRRESPONSIBILITY and ETHICAL INDIFFERENCE BY A VIRGINIA SUSSEX I STATE PRISON [SXISP] MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIAL. Then September 9, 2018 titled: VIRGINIA'S SUSSEX I STATE PRISON and THE SERIAL VIOLATOR PRISON GUARD N.IWUAMADI and to really get the point across as to what nature of beast is Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, you can also check out this October 8, 2018 work titled: IN VIRGINIA I LOVE YOU CARDS UNAUTHORIZED TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PRISONERS AT VADOC SUSSEX I STATE PRISON (attn. I had the experience with the cards in 2018 when I was held at Sussex for a couple of months from Red Onion)].The chronicles of dehumanization of the imprisoned Virginian at Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is legion. All one has to do is access the catalog of court cases filed by Sussex I prisoners against the Virginia Prison Official and while you are at it remove the name Sussex I and replace it with Red Onion, or Wallens Ridge, or Pocahontas or River North or Greensville, even Keen Mountain and you'll quickly realize its that same ole, Don McLean's "good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye",song. So the question before us isn't the mere recognition that its the same ole song, be it cancer causing water or the killing of Aubrey McKay by Wallens Ridge Prison Officials or the number of Virginia Prisoners shipped out to other State prison systems or that fundamental unwillingness by the Virginia Prison official to come to terms with the simple fact that conviction of an alleged crime and the subsequent Imprisonment isn't leave for dehumanization, but how mature is our ability to engage the People of Virginia on the terms that Prison and the Justice Infrastructure only exist because of LAW, which is the glue of Virginia Society and the Social Contract, as such it cannot exist selectively. So for example if the Commonwealth of Virginia recognizes, for instance certain causes of death, like hypertension to its Public Servants as job related and surviving family of the deceased worker are accorded the relative job related benefits. Then a Virginian, for example Henry Gorham Jr. (Bobilly) who died last year in Prison at Greensville, was imprisoned healthy and young. He wasn't sentenced to die in prison then due to the nature and circumstance of the imprisonment, he becomes ill and dies. The death is characterized as due to "natural causes" (and here is another rub I'm of the position that no Black Person's death whether in the diaspora or Africa since the 1400's can ever be accepted as of "natural causes", because if ones human condition is subjected to an external non transactional dynamic, then there is nothing self-deterministic or "natural" about whatever semblance of occurring agency is expressed as reaction and response. In other words if we don't recognize harm to fellow human as natural as the impact of an earthquake or hurricane, then the violent imposition on Africa since the 1400's isn't natural).But his death isn't seen as due to imprisonment,

There isn't any novel philosophy in what I'm saying. All I'm stating is the obvious and whether we are honest and willing to confront it, as stance against that inevitability of "when they came for the characterized undesirable, I said nothing, then I was next" is a formulation that is primordial as the synaptic habits determining Homosapiens. What I want to focus on is the real work of holding Virginia's imprisonment scheme accountable, which cancer causing water for imprisoned human beings at Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is but existence of the fraud perpetrated by those who presume to dictate and determine, the definition of the Virginia organic socio-person. The question isn't about the speech of Virginia's justice infrastructure as in adjudication of socio-person deviance, but its instead the contention that, if we truly presume society structured on a Social Contract, then, the leeway isn't a simple prerogative of the dictatorship of intent and its organized violence mechanism. The fact of Virginia's adjudicative impositions, notwithstanding its assumptions does not contradict that after its all said and done, the only remnant are suppositions as such the relative Constituted aspirations of the Commonwealth cannot exist as crass canards, just because certain minds are haplessly mired in a political-economic construct that belies the fact that, thats all it is, a construct, that palpitates with the expectation of progress, which for you reactionaries, means development and its inexorable work of unifying the People and again for you reactionaries, the perfection of that unity of the people is essentially, the "just and right side of history" resolutions of contradictions and the unflinching identification and illumination of antagonisms garbed in their systemic antithesis. So we begin with, if Virginia legislators are at peace with the logic and, yes it is a honest one that, the human business of existence or its conventional description as, "job related" warrants recognition on its terms and all of this are structured on the existence of the human being or its purported unconditional affirmation. Because everything is about the context of human life, yet that same Virginia legislature can determine that the life of the imprisoned Virginian is less, unequal and subordinate to whatever contextual transitory ignorances are reptilian like emerged basking in the Sun. While ridiculously mocking the affirmative insight of the "job related" declarative by failing to recognize that by repudiating its logic in the imprisonment schematic, the entire human business of existence is undermined. This brings to mind the speech of the 1993 Rwanda Genocide, where its participants and perpetrators, would get themselves together in the morning kiss and tell their wives, that they were going to "work", a mundane 9-5 of slaughtering human beings and return home, have dinner etc. as any regular humdrum family home tableau, after work. The Hutu perpetrators of the "work" psychology of the Rwanda Genocide are, not unique. It is the basic and fundamental nature of our human condition in the absence of that unconditional affirmation of Human life. The antagonism of this reconciliation isn't with the existence of heinous crimes, nor is there dispute with its accounting. Yes, criminality and deviance can be held accountable without dehumanization, without mocking the sacrosanctity of human life with denigration. While there are those among the people working to affirm the equality under law, declarative, meaning sanction isn't dehumanization. There are also those equally at work in its undermine, pursuing the deception that the victim of crime should find solace in the fact the convicted is being given cancer causing water.

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


Sunday, May 31, 2026

SOCIETY IS CONSTRUCTED ON IDEAS AND HERE ARE A CONTINUATION OF SOME OF THEM PRESENTED BY PEOPLE YOU HAVEN'T EVER HEARD OF WHO DETERMINE THE CONDITIONS OF THE IMPRISONED By William Thorpe


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In part I, I listed titles of works by cogs and elements in the Legal and Justice Infrastructure that are determining the circumstances, conditions and logic of what the imprisoned experiences in all US Prisons. But more specifically, considering that my focus is on the Commonwealth of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme the listing is for the Virginia Prisoner along with Family, Friends and Ally, because yes, the Virginia voter elects their representatives and Political leaders and supposes that those elected will exercise their organic judiciousness and judgement. However the reality is there exist unbeknownst to the average voter an entire Idea Industry influencing the elected. The incomparable Ava Duvernay captured this machinery in her Film, THE 13th,when she became aware of ALEC or AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL or more contemporaneously, PROJECT 2025 by THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION and its sister THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY. I cite these examples as nudge that the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme requires a substantial intimate grasp of ideas of Criminal Justice postulated by minds and hearts most have never heard of that play oversized roles even more than the electoral process and their shadowy existence is all part of that bureaucratic existence of State Secrets. Here is Part ll of the list, please share with your imprisoned loved one.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: WHY THE U.S PRISON SYSTEM FAILS GLOBAL STANDARDS---21 Am.U.Intl.L.Rev.71 by ELIZABETH VASILIADES THE PRIVATE PRISON'S INDUSTRY'S UNWARRANTED SEC.1983 BENEFITS---76 Ala. L.Rev.1 by AMANDA J. PETERS HEPATITIS C. LITIGATION: HEALING INMATES AS A PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGY---29 Ann. Health L.127 by ROBERT KATZ POLICE SECRECY EXCEPTIONALISM---123 Colum. L. Rev 615 by CHRISTINA KONINGISOR THE PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT: A SEPARATION OF POWERS DILEMMA---50 Ala .L. Rev.585 by THOMAS JULIAN BUTLER CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECRETS---59 Am. Crim.L.Rev. 1541 by MEGHAN J. RYAN A CASE FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN HABEAS CORPUS---60 Hastings L.J.541 by EMILY GARCIA UHRIG [cited in ALLEN v. STATE 914 N.W.2d 866, EX PARTE SANDOVAL 508 S.W. 3d 284, GRIFFITH v. STATE 507 S.W.3d 720] LAW, FACT,AND APPELLATE REVIEW---110 Iowa L.Rev.1 by ADAM N. STEINMAN THE EMBODIMENT OF SOVEREIGNTY: OUTRAGES, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION, AND THE FEDERALISM REVIVAL---98 S.Cal.L.Rev.367 by NORMAN W. SPAULDING THE CASE FOR (MOSTLY) ELIMINATING RULE (12b) (6) CHALLENGE TO PRO SE COMPLAINTS---17 Ne.U.L.Rev.351 by RICHARD LUEDEMAN HOT CRIMES: A STUDY IN EXCESS---45 Creighton L.Rev.33 by STEVEN GROSSMAN [cited in SIMPSON v. STATE 447 S.W.3d 264 (Texas case)] THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF PUNISHMENT---109 Colum. L. Rev.182 by ADAM J. KOLBER EVALUATING THE CONSEQUENCES OF CALIBRATED SENTENCING: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR KOLBER---109 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 11 by MIRIAM H. BAER TOWARDS A THEORY OF MITIGATION---96 B.U.L. Rev. 161 by CLARISSA BYRNE HESSICK and DOUGLAS A. BERMAN [cited in STATE v. WITHROW 64 N.E.3d 553 (Ohio case)] "RUINED"---111 Geo.L.J.237 by MAYBELL ROMERO 

The above listed are a bit of works produced by legal Scholars and writers, I suggest they're studied because they influence Government.

By William Thorpe

 I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982


Tuesday, May 26, 2026

THE SYMBIOTIC COMPLICITY OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE, THE VIRGINIA CONSULTANCY CLASS AND IT'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY ESTABLISHMENT MEMBERS, THE VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PARTY IS SELLING US SHORT ON THE EQUALITY UNDER LAW OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE AND THE SCAPE GOATING OF THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN By William Thorpe

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Abigail Spanberger became the first Woman Governor of The Commonwealth of Virginia, in 2026 upon the articulations of a number of factors, of which, "affordability", despite its primacy was one, but as aspect of something more fundamental, which considering the constant hither-whither lurching of Virginia and our National Political Speech, is treated as an ineffable force, despite the fact, its exegesis is the determinant around which the behavior or character of everything else orients and this ineffable force is, ACCOUNTABILITY or that erstwhile anticipation of the governance of a Government, the ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION. I say erstwhile because governance, abrogating its phenomenon legitimacy currently exist as noumenon. Because if the business of human existence is phenomena as constituted speech of the Human Condition, then this unwillingness to speak its accountability-function that we owe primary allegiance to as such replacing it with the indulgence of it's worship as an ineffable noumenon doesn't then transform into some sort of wink-wink, fingers crossed behind our backs absolution, or a surrogate argument of whether there is, or because of an absence of language to define necessitating its noumenal worship. An absence of language for which we have our very selves to blame for making the systemic analysis and critique, which is the language of its excavation verboten, a denial of the existence of that grand arbiter or the ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION phenomenon and its infinite permutations and expressions as the very ground or foundation [or the "faith and trust] glue of the Social Contract irrespective of and notwithstanding its perversions, distortions and misanthropic misuse, which are all conditions that inevitably and inexorably await resolution and settlement. All of this leads us to the crux or fulcrum of the human condition or as focus of this work, Virginia's Social Contract, which its highest function, as I've illustrated is the ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION revealed as the organized-violence of its justice infrastructure. Despite the foundational nature, the justice infrastructure and its organized-violence has as primary component of the constituted speech of The Commonwealth of Virginia, which is also where we meet and encounter it's antithesis or that natural corruption as accompanying dynamic, which demands and requires the perceptive vigilance of All of The People and the subsequent reform, or that proverbial "cat and mice", or to quote the prescient Bob Marley, "when the cats away the mice will play". This brings me to this, Governor Abigail Spanberger recently vetoed a provisional law on the importation of out of State prisoners, to the Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison. The reality is it was a meaningless and toothless law, still she vetoed it. Again Virginia's General Assembly recently unanimously approved a bill, HB 1030, which Governor Spanberger signed into law and is codified at Virginia Code 53.1-151-1.The law presents itself as criminal justice reform-Pro Parole, but needless I add anything that can claim legislative unanimity in 2026,is anything but reform. 

Virginia's Social Contract upon its Constituted Speech of Law and Process, regardless of form, from the summary imposition of Monarchical fiat, through the Colonial Corporation formation to the Democratic Assemblies of republicanism, has upon inception contradicted its aspirational intent as revelatory character of its Primitive logic. What we currently experience as the antagonism of Virginia's conditional, equality under law, isn't necessarily an indictment of Law as principle, but, the Primitive nature of a Social Contracts' speech that hasn't been compelled to mature and practically develop its aspirations and to that we firstly hold accountable those elements who presume proximate definition of the contours, parameters and utility of organic existence in Virginia and secondarily, the Virginia People who as expressed behaviorally are somnambulistic, to the compromising machinations. Again, if the crux of Virginia Society and Value is the nature of its Justice Infrastructure and the concurring imprisonment scheme and this stands revealed, for starters in the fact that the Commonwealth's Primary agency or arm of its governance is The Department of Corrections and not for instance, its Educational or Healthcare systems. The meaning is clear it values the organized-violence of imprisonment above all else and of course there is the usual suppositionary sophistry in its defense. My focus with this work is on the other aspect of Virginia's governance that enables the sophistry where it is considered sane and a productive realization of the human business of existence to foist on and restrict the inevitability of the development of the aspirations as constituted speech of the Commonwealth with this incessant acquiescent servile homage to the reactionist attitude towards critique of the systemic factors of Virginia's criminal justice. Despite the fact that Virginia contains a plurality of tendencies on any number of social contract issues and terms, on the primary issue of accountability of the Virginia prison official's professional behavior within the imprisonment scheme what we encounter are not just a paralysis of will to counter the farcical dictatorship of reaction, but a complete neutering of the progressive imperative and enlightenment. Even as the correctness and Just critique of the origins of Virginia's imprisonment schemes has moderated focus on the chattel enslavement basis and participated in the delusion that Virginia's justice infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme has an iota of regard and is actually concerned with whatever it means to repair "a" harm of crime. Reaction and those who benefit and have immediate exploitive interest in Virginia's imprisonment narrative, have taken and assumed that such moderation implies a surrender of narrative and conventional experience bears it out. Because for example the Virginia Democratic Party establishment and its Consultancy class have ever since abandonment by reactionary White Virginians, who as a general principle opposed desegregation and understood the Virginia Republican Party's Law and Order vocabulary as euphemism for a labor to minimize and dilute whatever substance desegregation aspired in the Commonwealth, turned themselves into pretzels in courting those pro segregation White Virginians to return to the Democratic Party. So what this has meant and accomplished is a continuum of compromises, at the expense and a betrayal of the aspirations and Constituted Speech of the Commonwealth in all respects, with the only reality, hapless malfeasance, extra-judicial facts, above-the-lawism, gratuitous violence and that existential destruction of the "faith and trust" of the People's will in the Social Contract and governance.

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