Professor Megan Stevenson, $200,000 and Virginia's Criminal Justice and Imprisonment Scheme By William Thorpe

On June 13, 2022, law.virginia.edu  trumpeted that Professor Megan Stevenson an economist and Criminal Justice scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law had been granted $200,000 from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, " to study the hidden long-term effects of incarceration".

Professor Stevenson is further quoted, giving us her grasp of Virginia's prison condition with:

" People are stacked in small cells way beyond capacity, facilities are without air conditioning in hot summers, and without sufficient heat in the winter, the violence can be rampant," she said "Most prisoners have virtually no access to higher education or any other way to prepare themselves for life after release. We wanted to know what the long-term impact of this experience are".

I almost forgot but Professor Megan Stevenson is assisted by John Eric Humphries another economics professor from Yale University, Aurelie Ouss a criminology Professor from University of Pennsylvania and not to be left out Winnie Dijk, you guessed it a Professor of economics from Harvard University.

I do have to say before I continue. Individuals in the speculative and idealistic fields of economics, criminology purporting "to study the hidden long-term effects of incarceration" is akin to leaving the fox in charge of the chicken coop design.

Because come on Arnold Foundation, the human condition begins with whimpers with the relativism of political-economy. So what exactly are we asking a Professor from the seat of the Jekyll and Hyde nature of American Itellectual-Liberalism, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville as structured by the Schizophrenic in chief, Thomas Jefferson, to tell us, that Virginia's criminal justice and the imprisonment scheme is one fetid continuum of nothing less than feudalism with a veneer of speculative due process? And that, the only analysis and critique of such is to quote the Schizophrenic in chief, Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence:

"All experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed" [unquote the Declaration of Independence 7/4/76]

Intitially my intent was to respect Professor Megan Stevenson's and Co. involvement with criminal justice and prison reform by taking her efforts seriously, but that would be complicity. Because if Professor Megan Stevenson and Co. expect to be taken seriously they should begin with critique not of the subjects of Virginia's Criminal Justice and imprisonment scheme but its dispensers.

It is not my intent to indulge in petty derision. But when what we are faced with in 2022 is the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, Harold Clarke giving testimony to the Virginia Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee on 5/17/22 that 54% of prisoners for potential release will violently reoffend and there isn't polemic for his immediate termination           but instead Professor Stevenson is speculating on "unearthing the connections between incarceration, barriers to reentry and social ills," [and] "a useful" "natural experiment" to help isolate the casual impact of incarceration". One has to ask even Thomas Jefferson in all his delusion wasn't conceited enough to muse on the complete impact slavery has on the human being and if the United States Constitution Amendment 13th declares that the American prisoner is a slave what then is Professor Megan Stevenson and her well fed colleagues talking about?

I'm William Thorpe, the Virginia Department of Corrections exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm at the Wainwright Unit in Solitary Confinment.