JUSTICE IS IT PROCESS OR AN ACT By William Thorpe

I'm a Virginia prisoner, exiled to the Texas prison system by executives of Virginia's Department of Corrections. I've been imprisoned in Virginia's justice infrastructure continuously since February 1980, when I was 20. Initially, my imprisonment was based on convictions of robbery and possession of a firearm. However, dealing with the conditions and circumstances of The Virginia Department of Corrections and its extra-judicial practices, I've accumulated added years of imprisonment. Let's begin and I trust I can make this as short, concise and to the point. Are the disenfranchised thousands, due to entanglements and encounters with the justice infrastructure and prison system, disenfranchised because of the "act" predicating the entanglement, encounter or is it a result of the "process" of the justice infrastructure and its apparatus? I chose disenfranchisement as penultimate sanction/punishment next to death. Society proscribes all sorts of behaviors vis a vis acts, yet it's the process or the bureaucracy, the administration of the proscription that asserts its criminality. So for example, let's ask Trayvon Martin's Mother if the acquittal of her son's killer makes him less a murderer to her, yet the bureaucracy of the justice infrastructure due to its acquittal of her son's killer compels her as a social component of society to ignore it's fact and actuality of the "act" and instead accept the determination of the adjudicative process as the true narrative and existential account. Let's also ask all of those Mothers of sons and daughters killed by officials of the state, whether determinations by the infinitude of "processes" make their children any less dead? What I leave you the reader with, what I ask you the reader to ponder is when we start talking about "justice" and "punishment", what is being affirmed and subsequently recognized, is it the harm of the act or is it the process?

By William Thorpe

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