What Covid-19 Presents Within The Prison Setting Is Something More Fundamental & Basic By William Thorpe

Okay, good old Virginia exiled me to Texas so it took a few stops for the old pony express to drop off the April 5, 2020 Bacons Rebellion: Virginia Jails and Prisons Brace for Pandemic post by Anonymous.

The post adds nothing nor does it obfuscate. Because the question is not about governmental behavior during a circumstance, [pandemic] that imposes unlawful and illegal conditions on "lawfully" imprisoned persons. That question is already settled. The U.S. Constitution 8th amendment and its jurisprudence are clear, Government cannot subject prisoners to conditions that mortally impact life     yet every single aspect of prison pre-COVID-19 and post does and will, due to the lack of accountability.

Nor does COVID-19 present a novel question within state-organized violence of prison and it's administration despite its novel Corona designation. The issue at hand is simple:

• Under what circumstance are prisoners released
• Under what circumstance are prisoners treated with the same rationality of law that transformed them into prisoners,
• And under what circumstance will speculators and speculations on prison and prisoners set aside colloquial impulses and come to terms with the fact contradictions ignored mature into antagonisms of hypocrisies and delusions mocking the social contract and its politic-law underpining.

What COVID-19 presents and does within the prison setting is something more fundamental and basic       it exposes the irrationality of governments anticipations as prison officials who are no more experts on anything, despite their idealistic pronouncements conjured whole cloth, hocus pocus like, for example, designations like, "the criminal mind of the prisoner" shibboleth intended as expertise to justify their existence, when confronted with the fact that prison as a lawful and legal construct has no basis to maintain detention of prisoners who were not sent to prison to be harmed of killed whether extrajudicial or by Ribonucleic Acid elements. So the question is simple how does law address the condition of the human being transformed into prisoner by its dictates during an epochal emergence that considers nothing than its cataclysmic logic, as COVID-19 does?

Consider this: A prisoner having served 20 of a 30-year sentence for armed robbery and COVID-19 happens. So lawfully and within the social contract, there can only be one action and
response      release. Because there isn't a governmental action that guarantees that the lawfulness that resulted the detention will assure the prisoner and the community that he will remain uninfected and unimpacted by COVID-19. The Prisoner wasn't sent to prison to die and COVID-19's default action is killing. COVID-19 is a condition no law or social-contract can ask a human to its subject. Yet discussions of what is government to do during the COVID-19 Pandemic within the prison setting as the April 5. 2020 Virginia Jails and Prisons Brace for Pandemic post speculates are indulged in as if the prisoner is an unconditional property and possession of government and its organized violence and that is not so.

The COVID-19 Pandemic presents prisoners, families, allies, advocates and the taxpaying citizenry including victims of crime [because victims of crime should stand shoulder to shoulder with the advocacy that government, its prison officials are not up and above law and its politics] with the opportunity to unequivocally and unambiguously confront that governmental presumption of unconditional seizure and possession of the prisoner      when no such condition of absolute possession within the human condition exist and not even the politics of death and prison can distort it.

There is only one action for government during the COVID-19 Pandemic relative to the prisoner and prison and that is       release.

William Thorpe is at Eastham Unit in Texas in Solitary Confinement since 1996, Virginia exiled him in 2019 to Texas