Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: October 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023

The Three-Headed Monster In The Way Of Holding The Virginia Prison Official Accountable By William Thorpe

Recently The Attorney General of The Commonwealth of Virginia, Jason Miyares, made a brazenly lawless and unconstitutional declaration to the world (and I paraphrase) that the Virginia parole board in early 2020 had been in "a parole-granting frenzy "as such had endangered public safety by releasing dozens of violent felons. The brazen lawlessness and unconstitutional fact of the statement exposes a fact of Virginia's Social Contract which is it's Justice Infrastructure, exist firstly in defense of a type of privilege which in turn requires, necessitates and demands the lawlessness underpinning Attorney General Jason Miyares anti-parole hyperbolic rant. This sabotage of and undermining of Virginia's Social Contract and its conditional and relative Justice Infrastructure, is possible because of the lack of Accountability and the primary beneficiaries of this inherent lawlessness are, the Prison Official. Yes, other elements of the Justice Apparatus and Infrastructure are also beneficiaries, but I want to primarily focus on Virginia's Prison Official. I will focus on three parts of the social contract that are a primary cause permitting, the lack of accountability.

(1) NEGLIGENT VOTING The social contract is the first understanding among any grouping of people and as such is Natural Law. Irrespective of any and all other suppositions, formulations, and narratives. The understanding, establishing community among people is the first law and in Virginia as across the Nation it is achieved through the one and only act of voting. Whether it's in local elections for schools, City and county government, Statewide Government and finally the Presidency and the National Government. What people want, how people expect to be treated and how their fellow others will be treated are all a result of and from that one and singular act of voting. The problem faced by Virginia is how to vote and what to vote for. If for example one is a crime victim and the justice system exacting repair for the harm of the crime is part of and a function of the social contract which you've participated in its construction, regardless of whether or not you agreed with all its parts, It's in your interest, an affirmation of your humanness that the laws that created the experience as a crime are adhered to, meaning someone as the attorney general especially the attorney general who in this case is Jason Miyares should adhere to the law. Parole is part of Virginia's justice system and Infrastructure, it's the law. The attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia is a creation of law and exist as law the only reason we listen and pay attention to anything that comes out of the mouth of the attorney general is because of the authority our collective will has given the office by our vote as such when the attorney general forgets that it exist only because of our vote then we have to firstly remind ourselves that we must take the act of voting as serious as the conservation and preservation of our very life and existence because those we vote for can either pervert, corrupt or enable our aspirations, which we clearly see in the corruption of the social contract by Jason Miyares comments as it relates to parole.
(2) SCAPEGOATING A WEAPON EMPLOYED AND USED BY VIRGINIA SUPREMACIST Politicians, legislators, advocacy, activist dissect and debate ideas and policies as function of the social contract. The question however is, due to the negligent manner of the vote in Virginia, debates had by and policies presented by those it votes for become scapegoating mechanisms in pursuit of maintaining and defending the privilege and the inevitable inherent lawlessness of Virginia's justice system and infrastructure at the expense of advancing in a redemptive and constructive manner what it means to be human. Accordingly, we see the full display of Virginia's sub-humanization of parts of its social contract in the practices and administration of its imprisonment scheme, specifically, the barbaric and extra-judicial behavior of its Virginia Department of Corrections Prison Official. Subsequently its basis again is the impractical and negligent manner of the Virginia vote. If we understand that all aspects of Virginia's Government, its function, which include the barbarism of its prison official are specific and direct results of how we vote, then the responsibility shifts from the idealistic ability to criticize "the system" to engaging in the complete and total focus of challenging any and all assertions of those we vote for on the lines of, if for example parole is a function of the criminal justice system, then a sitting attorney general who is legally bound to abide by and comply with law is behaving as an outlaw "official" when he criticizes Virginia's parole board for doing what the law specifies and requires of it. The issue isn't whether Jason Miyares can be as critical as he wants about any aspect of Virginia's social contract including, grant of parole, he can, but either as a politician running for office or as a private citizen. But when he does it as the States 'Chief Law Official then Virginia's social contract ceases from being democratic and instead reveals itself as what we have historically experienced it inherently to be and we have no one to blame but ourselves for submitting to scapegoating as a weapon of privilege and its lawlessness.

(3) COMPLICITY BY VIRGINIA'S CORPORATE MEDIA AND VIRGINIA'S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVIST CLASS Media by definition has a bias, as such Virginia's corporate or mainstream media is status quo biased and slanted. Naturally as it relates to matters of the justice system and infrastructure, Virginia's media has historically parroted The Virginia Department of Corrections spin with that proverbial wink and nod. So, for decades, the recently retired Frank Green staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch on prison related issues simply reviewed Virginia Department of Corrections press releases and comments on issues as coverage thus compounding the ignorance of the Virginia voter. As such, as crucial and integral the issue of crime and justice or as the supremacist among us would characterize it as, "law and order" is to the social contract, the Virginia voter has been manipulated by the media complicity surrounding issues of Prison. Secondly those who earn a living claiming to speak for the Virginia
Prisoner are in most cases complicit with the inherent lawlessness of the justice system and infrastructure. So, let's take for example the question of oversight of the Virginia prison official. Forever, prisoners and victims of crime have demanded oversight of The Virginia Department of Corrections and Virginia legislators have played footsie with it. Activist purportedly speaking for the Virginia prisoner have made it a bullet point to which politicians have then used it as their perennial Bill Clinton and Sistah Souljah moment, exploiting it as counter balance to their reactionary views on crime and punishment with tacit activist wink and nod.
First of all the professional activist class, in their reform idea, are incapable of challenging the inherent lawlessness of Virginia's justice system and infrastructure, because they accept the "legitimacy" of the social contracts 'narrative as being or existing without a point of view or interest. So, when attorney general Jason Miyares states that the super-max prisons of Red Onion and Wallens Ridge are a source of employment for the predominately-white rural people of Southwest Virginia, he is revealing a fact the prison reform imperative pursued by Virginia's professional activist class overlooks as not being a primary motive of the Commonwealth's interest under the narrative of criminal justice. If the organic basis of the justice system and infrastructure is clearly understood as a mechanism of social-control, notwithstanding its selling points, which the abolishment of parole by the former Governor George Allen and his Republican foot soldiers is a case in point. Then its critique must orient from political-economy realities of the Commonwealth and the professional activist class as I've already pointed out is seriously incapable of leading such a debate, despite its necessity. For example if a sizable amount of Virginia's prisoner population are imprisoned due to economic "crimes", then a honest and civilized social contract would interrogate and analyze why. But the reality is Virginia's justice system and infrastructure along with the rest of the Nation's isn't concerned with serving as a means of providing repair to crime victims, but as a back door to perpetuating and maintaining the Nations original economic force, that of "labor" from the chattel enslavement of black people. We see this in the fact of the 13th amendment to the constitution of the United States. This work has tackled and identified, three factors that have forever sabotaged the real push and work of holding Virginia's Social Contract to its obligations and its Department of Corrections Prison Official accountable. The resolution to the simple and basic question of injustice lies with us, to what extent are we "woke".

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit

Monday, October 9, 2023

When,The What Came First,The Chicken Or Egg Conundrum Is The Barbarism Of The Virginia Department Of Corrections By William Thorpe

Is this incarnation of The Virginia Department of Corrections, under its current leadership, the philosophy of minds that are comfortably at home with sicing attack dogs, Belgian Malinois, on prisoners and not any prisoner but a majority Black one, at the expense of the history and experience of Black people, not only in The Commonwealth of Virginia, but 1619 America to date, capable of coming to their senses, their own volition, considering that it took their ancestors who harbored the same delusions a pounding from cannon shot after cannon shot braining it into their skulls in the Union's most bloodiest of gorefest, that black people are no less human? No. Furthermore, the Virginia Department of Corrections continuance of practices from Virginia's chattel enslavement of black people, by shipping out prisoners who dare challenge its thinly wrapped anti-prisoner animus under the amorphous guise of being security threats to other prison systems, thousands of miles from their families, despite the Departments claims as data point in its mission statement, that it recognizes that the stability of family connections for a prisoner is vital, in other words The Virginia Department of Corrections is nothing short of a front for holdovers, exploiting The 13th Amendment to The Constitution of The United States as such there cannot be any doublespeak by progress pursuing minds and hearts in The Commonwealth who endeavor to hold it's entire Social Contract and Law and Order apparatus accountable. Recently a couple of events happened that impacted the Department, (1) Harold Clarke, it's former Director was given the boot and Chadwick Dotson a former Circuit Judge from rural Southwest Virginia replaced him and is now the Departments current Director. (2) The approaching Virginia elections provided the Republican cabal running the state the opportunity to toss a chewed up and spat out stale bone to voices that have been imploring for oversight of The Virginia Department of Corrections, so Glenn Youngkin the current Governor went along with the stunt of a temporary Ombudsman to patronize allegations against it. If as the current Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares plainly said that a function of Virginia's prisons (and I paraphrase) is to provide jobs for those representing the flip side of the coin of those imprisoned, then naturally the Department is just as inclined as its predecessor, chattel slavery plantations to be nothing short of treating prisoners as cash crops, tobacco and King cotton. Are the current executive leadership of The Virginia Department of Corrections credible and should be given the benefit of the doubt? A survey of the thousands of lawsuits filed by its prisoners alleging all sorts of barbaric and heinous treatment says an unequivocal, No.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit


Thursday, October 5, 2023

Chadwick Dotson, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Response To Prison Substance Abuse Violates Treatment Of Mental Illness By William Thorpe

The Virginia Department Of Corrections under the leadership of Chadwick Dotson an ex Judge from Southwest Virginia, a region that's described as the Nations Meth Capital, meaning its population inordinately abuses controlled substances is punitively denying phone access and family visits to its prisoner population extra- judicially, under the rubric of controlling substance abuse. Okay the Commonwealth of Virginia has over a hundred years to date exercised its organized violence perogatives by having an imprisonment scheme and we can state as fact that a percentage of its prisoners have subsequently abused accessible intoxicants. The Virginia Department of Corrections as a department under the executive function of Office of Governor has naturally had penalties for rule violations by prisoners it holds and detains and denial of family visits and phone access for a specified period have always been used. But this heightened and extreme punishment, being implemented by Chadwick Dotson as Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, the denial of all visits and phone access because of a human behavior, substance abuse, that is accepted by all health and mental health authorities as a type of mental illness. Is another reminder that Virginia sees its prisoners as sub-human.


By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Prison Reform In The Commonwealth And Those We Vote For In 2023

We posed a number of questions directly and individually to all of the candidates running for Virginia's General Assembly in 2023 seeking our votes. The questions,(which we present here), dealt with The Virginia Department Of Corrections. Our intent and purpose is to demystify the realities of imprisonment in the Commonwealth and to elevate focus on Virginia's prisons and imprisonment scheme separate from the same old narrative that is nothing short of governmental schizophrenia and crime victims, families of prisoners and Virginia's Social Contract require more than the stale, tough on crime refrain that historically has only been opportunity to deflect, as such as voters we can see for ourselves who among those asking for our votes at least understands that the same ole same ole politics of hypocrisy and scapegoating is fetid.

Questions

  1. Do you commit to a comprehensive review of VADOC and the philosophy of its Dir. Harold Clarke #OnTheRecordVA
  2. Why should taxpayers vote for you, when you don't know what to do about VADOC? #OnTheRecordVA
  3.  A practical way to bring accountability to VADOC is establishing office of prisoner grievance independent of VADOC, will you work for this? #OnTheRecordVA
Here is what some of the potential candidates said in response to the questions of those who answered.








The rest didn't respond as such their silence is a response and the voter should reach their own conclusions.

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