The difference between the Virginia prisoner and the Virginia prison official and guard is accountability. The prisoner is held accountable by the justice infrastructure for alleged and the subsequent conviction, of a violation. The Virginia prison official, eludes, evades and isn't held accountable, because Virginia and The Nations justice infrastructure isn't designed to do such to prison officials and all members of the State organized-violence apparatus. Look I'm not presenting lengthy research notes and studies to validate any of what I'm saying .I leave validation to the honesty of the reader, because whether one is subject to or object of the daily terms of organic interaction with and within Virginia's Social Contract, regardless of denials and delusions we all know what accountability is, who is held to and subject to it and when crookedness and corruption are not exceptions but the rule as "above the law" privilege.If and when the prisoner is correctly and accurately held accountable by criminal conviction, it is done specifically on the individuality of the prisoner as singular perpetrator without the reason and justification of societal conditions and circumstances. But on the contrary the crookedness and corruption of the Virginia prison official, goes beyond the supposition of a criminal code and gets at and is an expression of the very logic of the social contract, which is no one is above law, because the corruption of the public official, which the prison official is. Reveals and exposes the contradictions and antagonisms inherent in the social contract. Because in as much as the rule of law pronounces itself as unbiased, democratic and unprejudiced it is anything but and we see it as such in the expressed attitudes and assumptions of the prison official. In otherwards the prison official is corrupt and crooked not as a singular organism but because he/she exploits the very democratic logic of society and the social contract. The prison official perceives law as a petty nuisance, a "liberal" construct, coddling prisoners and he/she is the authentic dispenser of "punishment". As such what we then see is a systemic and thorough violation of law by the prison official in their governance of the prisoner.
So, Virginia prisoners are denied and deprived of food. Denied showers, denied adequate clothing, denied medical and mental health care, denied outside exercise, denied affirmative and realistic intellectual and sensory stimuli in preparation for release from prison. Virginia prisoners are routinely assaulted and tortured in all manners imaginable and then some by the Virginia prison official, all one has to do is get a catalog of the voluminous law suits filed by Virginia prisoners protesting and seeking redress from the extrajudicial rampage of the prison official.
When we talk about the level of corruption and crookedness of the Virginia prison official. Here is case in point. Back in 2001 a number of guards at Virginia's Wallens Ridge State Prison were charged with assaulting a prisoner and falsifying prison or state records by the Wise County Commonwealth's attorney. The case itself was an exception because it is extraordinarily and extremely rare for a Commonwealth's attorney to charge prison officials of misdeeds, violations and crimes. So this is how Virginia prison officials responded, they came in the D/5 pod of Wallens Ridge State prison one evening in either February or March of 2002 and moved out prisoners from 9 of the bottom tier cells and replaced them with prisoners from other parts of the prison. Moving prisoners from pod to pod or cell to cell isn't remarkable or noteworthy because prisoners are moved for whatever reason, but what made this move in question interesting was it was enmasse and normally when such enmasse moves happen its due to something is being done to cells or the pod. Anyway nothing was made of it, till a day or two later around noon a bunch of old white people were escorted into the pod and as soon as the group of old white people entered the pod all the recently moved in prisoners to the bottom tier started beating, banging on the cell doors, howling, shouting, screaming and doing all sorts of things that were it on any other day or time Wallens Ridge prison guards would have used as pretext to run into the cells, assault and beat prisoners, sic dogs on 'em, spray gas and OC (oleoresin capsicum) pepper gas 'em (note OC gas has a history of killing people). But on this day the Wallens Ridge prison guards were ensuring that the group of old white people observed to the fullest the bedlam behavior being displayed by those prisoners who it later came out had been moved in purposefully to behave in that manner for the group of old white people who it turned out were members of the jury on the case of those prison guards on trial for assaulting a prisoner and subsequently falsifying prison or state records. What Virginia prison officials had done was promise certain prisoners with transfer from Wallens Ridge State Prison, which at that time was understood to be a supermax prison, if they would participate in a stunt for the jury on the case of those charged guards. The idea was the behavior encountered by those old white people in the D/5 pod is what their sons and daughters who are employed as prison guards are subjected to, deal with and face on a daily basis. So, if a prison guard (who is either their son/daughter/husband/wife or community member) assaults a prisoner, its excusable, because how can anyone work under such conditions without reacting? And it worked because the prison guards were found not guilty. Now this scheme put into effect by the Virginia prison official at Wallens Ridge State Prison, is a text book study of corrupt and crooked behavior by a prison official, exploiting democratic authority given within the social contract.
First of all, if we are to actually reform The Virginia Department of Corrections and subsequently the entire Justice Infrastructure. It starts and begins with us, we the people and how "woke" we become to the one and only truth, which is: we begin by rejecting that tired narrative of selective accountability. To those of you who might not be familiar with the George Orwell book, Animal Farm, its characterization of some animals being more equal than others has always been the correct and accurate analysis of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the prison official. Prisoners are literally beaten and assaulted by the Virginia prison official, not because the tax payer and voter have decided that, that is the professional conduct expected of those whom the privileges of subjecting human beings who for the most part have exhibited the same behavior the states organized violence practices for the purported benefit of the community and society, to imprisonment. But it's simply because the prison official exploits that grey area within the social contract that seeds corruption and crookedness .Let's take for example Virginia's current Attorney General, Jason Miyares besides spewing the tired and worn pablum of, tough on crime and bounding up steps at Virginia's concentration camp, also known as Red Onion State Prison and violating the Virginia voters faith and trust in government, with schemes to thwart and pervert their will and intent of reforming the Commonwealth's measure of reducing sentences. Does any one and I mean any one who isn't scared to think accept that there is a sliver, a modicum of probability that Jason Miyares,in his "infinite wisdom" cares about the crookedness, corruption and extra judicial behavior of the prison official? Whom from his Miyareian world view can never ever be deviant and a law breaker?What matters however is Jason Miyares is entitled to exist in his reprobate supremacist quagmire and we reject it as history has consistently rejected its dictatorship.
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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