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