Currently, Texas leads the nation in imprisoning people, men and women in conditions that have nothing to do with the state carrying out it's people idea of justice.
Once upon a time, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that imprisonment didn't exclude the imprisonment completely from U.S. Constitutional protections [I paraphrase] and legal scholars and jurists indulged in self-serving congratulations on the civilized justness of the ruling. Glibly ignoring the conditionality of the ruling, as if despite the fact law created the imprisoned prisoner, the prisoner can now exist for the most part outside of law and it's equal protection under law wasn't this contradiction resolved under the emergence of the Magna Carta? The consequences of the ruling however has been the extra-judicial treatment, savagery, barbarity and gratuitous violence meted on prisoners by prison officials and their rank and file nationally Done openly under the gaze of law schools, so society moves away from the might is right contradiction which in a relative amount of cases resulted in the transformation of a free person into a prisoner imprisoned Towards the "in good faith" social existence of the accountability of equal protection under law.
But the reality is law schools have been complicit in the extra-judicial nature of imprisonment, due to their silence. All anyone has to do is read and study law suits presented by Texas prisoners in all the various court forums, documenting conditions. Circumstances and situations of their imprisonment that only the sadist would find as justice. Law schools as institutions are better placed and suited to understand what legal imprisonment is in Texas and nationally and therefore recognize what is extra-judicial and not only do they have moral and ethical obligation to call out the above the law attitudes of the prison official, but law schools also have academic and legal responsibilities as teaching young and aspiring lawyers and informing the tax paying public that what is being done in their name by the criminal justice apparatus is simply illegal.
A Partial listing of Texas Law Schools
University of Texas School of law-Austin, Texas
University of North-Dallas College of Law,- Dallas Texas
Texas Southern University Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy- Houston, Texas, Texas A&M School of Law- Ft. Worth, Texas
University of Houston Law School- Houston, Texas
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law- Dallas, Texas
South Texas College of Law- Houston, Texas
Texas Tech University School of Law- Lubbock, Texas
Lets Hold Them Accountable
Law schools as this partial listing of Texas Law Schools have for too long played an unaccountable game. Where they give legitimacy to a state as Texas, giving cover to its organized violence by a historic wink and nod unwillingness to highlight reaction and repression while positioning themselves as portals of refinement, civilization and progress. While undermining everything law anticipates, but what law schools as all other institutions of the state and its default secrecy craves is respectability. Respectability which only we can bestow, which is our justice by not giving.
I'm Willliam Thorpe a Virginia prisoner exiled to the Texas prison system. Virginia started my Solitary Confinement in 1996 and it continues unabated at Texas Wainright Unit
