I begin with a listing of court cases documenting what is going on in Virginia's prisons confining our Women, our Sisters, Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Nieces, Cousins, Grandmothers and Wives. The harm and barbarity meted under the guise of criminal justice in our name the people of Virginia. (1) Anselm's v. Griffin 2023 US Dist.Lexis 23241 (2) Morton v. Johnson 2015 US Dist. Lexis 84224 (3) Scott v. Clarke 64 F.Supp.3d 813 (4) Whitt v. Yancey 2015 US Dist. Lexis 69684 (5)Roe v. Tucker 2023 US Dist. Lexis 115197 (6) Carr v. Hazzlewood 2007 US Dist. Lexis 91962 (7) Sabbats v. Clarke 2022 US Dist.Lexis164430 (8) Scott v. Clarke 2014 US Dist. Lexis 150494 (9) Scott v. Clarke 2016 US Dist. Lexis 14192 (10)Dunn-Brinkley v. Daniel 2011US Dist.Lexis133881 (11)Flores v. Va.Dept.of Corr.2021 US Dist. Lexis 241357 (12) Liberator v. Armor Corr.Health Servs.2020 US Dist. Lexis 88378.Every other day media introduces us to another abhorrent, reprehensible and malfeasant existence and prison official behavior in Virginia's prisons. In other words human beings who have swore, pledged and took oaths to dispense the people of Virginia's idea of justice, in the particular and specific context of imprisoning human beings convicted of violating its laws are also violating laws. Typically, the thrust of the accepted narrative is, Virginia's Department of Corrections has to be investigated. To which Virginia politicians get to perform the bizarre on the one hand this and on the other hand that, while feigning impotence over the simple and fundamental truism, the antagonism of don't do as I do but as I say.
In any society exist two halves,the positive and negative parts on any issue.Yes there is apathy within both polarities, but apathy is also a vote for or against an issue albeit a latent vote. So on the issue of the Commonwealth's criminal justice and it's subsequent pursuit of imprisonment. The responsibility, first of all let me state this if the people, the Virginia tax payer, the constituent doesn't like and rejects the inevitable indictment of complicity and responsibility for the destruction of that expressed and contextual-inviolable inalienability of humanness subjected to the Virginia prisoner. Illustrated in the above listed cases, it has no one to blame but it self, specifically its ignorance.With this stated, the two existing halves of Virginia's society are halves on any issue because one-half is always wrong regardless of intent and imperative. This isn't a simple finger pointing at either of Virginia's major Political Parties. No one, no one social fact and institution has a monopoly on the correct analytical grasp of any one issue at any given moment. We wouldn't need and require government and due process of law if individually we knew the correct and just response to the experience of existence. So naturally, especially on the question of Virginia's criminal justice, the responsibility lies with the people of Virginia and to the extent of the honesty and humility of analysis. What I'm saying is there is nothing new or novel about human behavior and social relationships. Where we anticipate and pursue progress is with response and its on that account the Virginia tax payer exhibits that proverbial head in the sand ostrich neurosis. Virginia's prison system isn't working and its conveyed in this quote from a Spotsylvania, Virginia man, Richard DaSilva who served 17 years in its prisons: "I tap danced for them all the way", upon his recent release. The first obligation and responsibility of society is to understand, even the biblical god upon indictment of the snitching Adam on Eve understood and accepted context because we are told in Genesis 3:21 "And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them". What makes this act fundamental is it comes after the biblical god had indicted Adam and whoever "his wife" was to the extent it took the redemptive utterance of " Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"for absolution.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit.
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