President Ronald Reagan Gave Us "Trickle Down Economics " Which Enabled Trickle Down Law Breaking Impunity By The Prison Official And Justice Infrastructure By William Thorpe

What lessons are we learning from the current Social atmosphere? What historical blinders are being removed? Virginia's imprisonment scheme has rested on a quasi-unchallenged value of a National character that there is a demarcation between subjects of The Justice Infrastructure, of whom some are imprisoned, which the Supreme Court of The United States, declared in Rhodes v. Chapman 452 US 337 (1981)" The Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons "conditions that are restrictive and even harsh.....are part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society". Now what events of a National character since 2021 have revealed is, the based demarcation, which The Supreme Court in Rhodes v. Chapman asserts is as shifty as dry sand and just as speculatively porous. The very basis of the Supreme Court itself was challenged by those declarative events of January 6th, 2021, that inextension said, the Virginia prisoner as all other prisoners across the Nation were mere arbitrary extra-judicial circumstances. The reasoning in Rhodes itself was symptomatically complicit in its preparation for a January 6th lawlessness. Because on what authority is "comfortable" cautioned as being without Constitutional mandate, when the inverse is just as accurate? For one, "comfortable" as legal destination is idealistic due to its subjectivity along with "restrictive", because imprisonment as practiced by an entity as The Commonwealth of Virginia with its inchoate pseudo legal formulations, has to expect the resulting prison official malfeasance and law breaking.

The point is understanding what we must in order to reform Virginia's prison system. Virginia as The Nation, constructed a Justice Infrastructure and prison system in pursuit of a specific political-economic interest and "justice" as an expression of "public safety" is only accountable within its logic and that is what must be changed. Everything we must understand is contained within relations of The Social Contract and what I mean by the Social Contract are our aspirational and deterministic narratives of progress and those we self-check ourselves with, regardless of value. Secondly, we have to come to the unvarnished acceptance that our ignorance is always and I emphasize always used and exploited against us. I've been imprisoned by the Commonwealth since 1980, February to be exact. So despite the fact that the Nation's history as Virginia is choke full and replete of reference markers in the service of extra-judicial impunity, what I have paid attention to due to my imprisonment are those breathed into National existence since 1980 to date, by Ronald Reagan through Joe Biden, their Presidencies and in Virginia, John Dalton through Glenn Youngkins, Governors.Despite major points of existence as, parole on the Virginia Prisoners imprisonment. There has to be the primary realization that prison reform in Virginia is specifically and fundamentally a targeting of the daily extra-judicial behavior of the prison officials interactions with the prisoner. Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, as the Nations' has anticipated the incompatibility that "equality under law" for the people also means the congruent "above the law" contradiction of the Government officials i.e the prison officials 'function and activity. We remember the resulting 2020 National protest of Cop killings of Black Men, embodied in George Floyd's death. We remember the cries for eliminating Qualified Immunity as function, an above the law shield, giving cover to prison officials and Cops who break the law and violate the public trust. We remember how The Republican Party came out against any hint of reforming it as shield giving illiberal protection to the offending Public Official. But Qualified Immunity has a undemocratic origin, as an authoritarian tool employed as all things American in the service of enslaving Black People and maintaining discrimination. See JAMISON V. McCLENDON 476 F.SUPP.3d 386 and the analysis and compleate history of Qualified Immunity by Judge Carlton W. Reeves, then See BLUE BY DAY AND WHITE BY KNIGHT:REGULATING THE POLITICAL AFFILIATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY PERSONNEL 81 Iowa L. Rev 1079 by Robin D. Barnes, See PIERSON V.RAY 352 F.2d 213 and PIERSON V.RAY 386 US 547 (Both Pierson cases are Genesis of Qualified Immunity deployed to protect Jim Crow era Mississippi Cops. I bring these cases to light again because if we are to reform The Virginia Department Of Corrections and The Justice Infrastructure we have to understand its nature, meaning its purpose. Here is another point, See this case DOBBS V. JACKSONS WOMEN'S HEALTH ORG.142 S.CT 2228,what I want to point out is check out the Appendices listing all State's historical Anti-Abortion laws, pay attention to Virginia's 1848 law and its Machiavellian construction when it states, "Any free person who shall administer to any pregnant woman......"(what I ask the reader to pay attention to is the emphasis by the law on "free person" considering that in 1848 Virginia was a slave holding state, so a pregnant woman who held people enslaved could get around the law by having her enslaved administer the abortion inducing drugs. The significance of this is it makes the case that the above the law inclination is the dialectic.

The Presidency of Ronald Reagan, from 1980-1988 was one of pure without rhyme corruption, it gave new life to the administration and institutionalization of impunity by the justice infrastructure and I make no bones saying it, because it offered nothing, than a perversion of whatever latent redemption is inherent within the National Social Contract. Simply regurgitating as political strategy, President Lyndon Johnson's well quoted observation that, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell,give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you", wasn't mastery but crass mediocrity which is what Ronald Reagan's brain produced as high function when he practiced his version of the other bigot, Richard Nixon's "southern strategy" by promising to "restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them", which was just another deadender flailing, invoking E. Pollard's, perjurious, shameless,"Lost Cause", a revision of the enslaving Confederacy's Civil War cause, which on August 3,1980 Reagan dog whistled to the "Lost Cause" ears at Mississippi's Neshoba County Fair a stone skip away from the infamous Philadelphia, the 1964 killing zone of 3 damn good people who were resisting the short sightedness of the Ronald Reagan's of the world. So When we talk about prison reform, it means precisely this. When a Virginia Prison Official thinks its a good idea to introduce rabid, savage dogs into the prison environment, for the purpose of controlling prisoners of whom a majority are Black, at the expense of history, as if dogs are not a peculiar and particular totem of the dehumanization of Black people. Then said prison official acts like a savage beast, a flesh tearing dog hadn't just been unleashed and siced on the prisoner whom to let The Virginia Department of Corrections tell us has a core mission of preparing for a return to society? So when we talk about reforming the Virginia Department of Corrections and the prison system, what we are actually confronting is, a brain so corrupt, so degenerate that it presents to the "Jeffersonian candid world", a means, a mechanism as strategy, as objective, when we are told, something as "States Rights" can exist, for itself without purpose or objective and it is accepted. Which is what we are asked to accept from the prison official, that in pursuit of the core mission of preparing the prisoner for return to society, the prisoner must be subjected to daily barbarity, that are in effect violations of law that not only created the prisoner but the prison official and the trust and privilege given by the people of Virginia. The States Rights disclaimer by enslavers and supremacist is the same prison official logic in pursuit of impunity and its above the law presumption, because the prison official, wants to violate law while claiming to be its defender. Check out this anecdote, back in I think 2002, I was in solitary confinement at Wallens Ridge State Prison and I overheard a Captain who had just been acquitted for falsifying state documents say to one of my neighbors that he was taking the word of the floor officer over the prisoner (my neighbor) because my neighbor was a convict and the floor officer was a "sworn correctional officer".I found it ironic because the Captain himself was an acquittal away from being a convict and on top of that prison officials have never turned a snitch word down because the snitch is a convict. The point is what that Captain was expressing was that denigration and dismissal of the prisoner's, our humanness which is the epitome of above the law impunity.

By William Thorpe

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

Prison Reform In Virginia Is About Politics. So How Many Mothers, Loved Ones Of Prisoners Have Voted For Anti-Reform Politicians? By William Thorpe

 

A Mother, A Loved one of a Virginia Prisoner gets a phone call, a snail mail, a J-Pay/Securus emessage from the prisoner telling the mother or wife, the family member that such and such prison official didn't give them a meal tray or the meal portions are starvation portions in violation of The Virginia Department Of Corrections Food Policy and State Law. Or such and such Sergeant or Lieutenant at the Solitary Confinement housing at Red Onion, Wallens Ridge, Sussex I State Prisons, Green Rock, River North, Pocahontas Correctional Centers refused them showers, outside exercise, again in violation not only of prison policy but State Law. What I've illustrated are just a moment in the every day unceasing violations by The Virginia Prison Official of The Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedures, Policies, Memoranda, plus The U.S Constitution and Virginia Law. Or the prisoner has an abscessed tooth, gout, stomach pain (which could be "fill in the blank" issue), symptoms of some sort of onset infection, which the prisoner has complied with prison policy, and made the appropriate medical and security staff aware yet the prison isn't fulfilling its obligations of providing the requisite medical care, again in violation of The Department Of Corrections Operating Procedures, Policies, e.t.c plus U.S. Constitution and Virginia State law and don't forget Codes of Professional and Ethical Conduct of the various Medical Associations, Boards and Groups. Or the Prisoner tells the family of mental instability and depression and despite notifying the prisons mental health staff, the response has been indifference, even mocking skepticism, again in violation of all the above noted authorities. Or because the Prisoner complained of any number of issues certain cliques of prison officials are now targeting the prisoner, with retaliatory shake downs or cell searches, planting contraband in the prisoners cell so the prisoners sentence will be extended, fabricating infractions in other words prison officials are using cover of law to break the law. Thereby depriving the prisoner of whatever minimal privileges permitted as subsequent punishment. Everything that I've just described are as I've said daily occurrences of violations at all Virginia prisons. The intensity and frequency of the violations are as in the daily organic life experiences of the demographic base producing and creating the Virginia Prisoner dependent on the whims and caprices of the offending perpetrator, who is protected by the reigning politics. The Virginia Prison as extension of The Justice Infrastructure takes on the nature and character of the ruling Politics in other words, the priorities and worldview of either progressive/equality under law or conservative/status quo bias. Now if the family of the Virginia prisoner isn't attentive to this fact that a specific type of Virginia politics is whats enabling the prison official's impunity and as a result all the harm experienced by their loved one and they vote and support those politicians who either overtly or tacitly endorse the above the law behavior of the prison official, then they have no one to blame but themselves.

By William Thorpe

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

Virginia Changed It's Laws So The Director Of The Prison System Could Run It By The Seat Of The Pants By William Thorpe

Once upon a life time ago, Virginia prison law was based on The State Board Of Corrections setting standards for the running of the prison system. Then it was changed to allow and permit The Director Of The Virginia Department Of Corrections, see Virginia Code 53.1-10 (powers and duties of Director) to pretty much free style and implement whatever ideas suited his/hers fancy, even under the guise penology, it is still speculative, because there is nothing empirical or scientific as science is understood about penology. I say this to make a point about some of the claimed philosophical underpinning of what the Virginia prisoner is subjected to. Everything that I say, all my observations are based on 44 years of continued imprisonment by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which for a major part has been in solitary confinement and its maximum and super max prisons and not because I have any crazy, dramatic and atypical convictions, but because I have objected to the extra-judicial treatment plyed by the Commonwealth's prison officials. In other words I know what above the law means for the Virginia prison official.

Upon encountering Virginia Code 53.1, one would think, its title, Prisons and Other Methods of Corrections, indicates a legally cogent and comprehensive basis for treatment of the Virginia Prisoner, till you realize after running into Va. Code 53.1-10, that the Director as Head Honcho of The Prison System is pretty much free to experiment as he/she sees fit (but then Virginia hasn't had a she in the position yet in these 44 years of my imprisonment and that alone should have the Virginia woman furrowing her brow, with why).A number of our ancients have given us the observation that the measure of advancement, development and civility of a society isn't to be found in its well fed or elites, but its marginalized and the marginalized in Virginia are its prisoners and the social environment that produces them. Now the elites would naturally have us it see it the other way around, that their social exclusivity is the measure of Virginia and its civilization, but our humanness won't allow us, the delusion. With this said I can now point out why the authority given the Director of The Virginia Department Of Corrections is the inevitable conclusion of the perversion of Virginia's civilization. Virginia's civilization, its political-economy is built on the backs of the chattel enslavement of Black People and to a lesser degree the indentured servitude of a type of white person. In maintenance of Virginia's society built on the enslavement of human beings an entire set of thinking was created by the enslavers to distort their activities and inure their behavior and its that way of thinking that is the "discretion" given The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, by Va. Code 53.1-10. In other words the authority requires the thinking and behavior of an enslaver. See this case, Ruffin v. Commonwealth 62 VA 790, where in 1871 the Virginia Supreme Court ruled, pretty much that the prisoner was less than human. Now this steadfastness to the enslavers thinking exhibited by Virginia's Supreme Court, in 1871 came on the heels of The Civil War, the bloodiest war in the Nations history, to date. Which more than makes my point that, enslaving Black People which was Virginia's civilization, not only distorted the thinking but it inured the enslaver to the offensiveness of their behavior. Because it is almost psychopathic and cult like that despite the well documented perdition of the civil war, by the likes of Stephen Crane which was literally fought to destroy, Virginia and its Sister rogue States affinity and compulsion to enslave, its Supreme Court could still pine for slavery as social class, that it found it in the Virginia prisoner. Despite the fact that the Nation begun to in 1944 (see the case Coffin v. Reichard 143 F.2d 443), repudiate the thinking in the Ruffin ruling and supposedly come to its senses, finding shame that once upon a time a Virginia jurist found it "normal" to give us Ruffin v. Commonwealth and Virginia's Supreme Court itself in 1919 without much fanfare denounced the Ruffin ruling, in Haynes v. Peterson 125 VA 730.The thinking required in The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections is a resurrection of the enslaver.

It's a well kept but in the open secret that Virginia's as the rest of the Nation, prisoner population exploded after The Civil War and through The infamy of Jim Crow, because imprisonment as it was becoming a more palatable mechanism for slavery allowed it's resumption without the accompanying vulnerability to the criticism that had wrought The Civil War. We see its Faustian bargain in the enumeration and existence of The 13th Amendment to The Constitution of The United States, where if slavery had been relegated to The Rogue States of The Rebellious Confederacy, prior to the Civil War upon its conclusion it was Nationalized under the pretext of punishment for criminal conviction. So if the Civil War was fought to rid the Nation of slavery (which in actuality it was) why then would the victors permit its Nationalized resurrection? The answer is found in what those newly freed former enslaved black people, as prisoners became, workers and laborers rebuilding the Nation under the guise of penal punishment. All of this are facts which The Virginia Department of Corrections conceals under the euphemism, "public safety" as core mission. Virginia is a whole entity and regardless of its disparate components, regardless of the shortsightedness of its reactionaries in whose world view and interest, its Justice Infrastructure and Prison system labors. What the Virginia public, its taxpaying non elite have to ask is what exactly is The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections accomplishing, when the philosophy deployed and effected by the Department is practically at odds, even at war with contemporary grasp and cognition of The Human Condition? So for example its not even debatable anymore that the Prisoner's stable family contact is fundamentally as important as nutritionally adequate meals, because for one, a stable family connection prepares the prisoner for reentry into society (which The Department claims is a core mission) more than the pro forma pep talks it gives prisoners, just as nutritionally sound meals saves the taxpayer, the State, Health cost (unless the State of Virginia, perversely wants to redistribute wealth into the medical and health care industry, by paying for prisoner health care that could've been prevented by giving prisoners nutritionally adequate meals to begin with) yet what we see The Director and Department doing is the opposite. It perverts, family association by subjecting it to averse and punitive treatment, which it also does to food, by deliberating starving prisoners at Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons and its all tantamount to the prison official withholding health care medication from prisoners as punitive sanctions, notwithstanding the fact that such medications are obligations on The Commonwealth of Virginia to ensure a wholesome treatment of the prisoner. But what we have is because The Director is left to keep on resuscitating that depraved husk of the enslaver mindset The Virginia Department of Corrections is stuck in this wormhole of professing "public safety", while doing all that it possibly can to undermine and betray it. Because what exactly is it teaching the prisoner, who will be released that lying, fabricating false infractions, planting contraband, denying meals and even when meals are provided, its a violation, posing its own set of questions of fraud?

By William Thorpe

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

Glenn Youngkin Exploited Parental Rights To Become Governor Of Virginia, Then He Betrayed It At The Virginia Department Of Corrections By William Thorpe

What is more of Parental concern, than the fact ones child is imprisoned? Virginia's Prisons are choke full of children, regardless of age but sadly to say the majority are so young that they don't meet the drinking age requirements of Virginia Code Section 4.1-304, which is 21. Glenn Youngkin along with Virginia Republicans exploited parents concerns over their kids to political success, he became Governor of Virginia. Then apparently he and The Republican Party promptly and conveniently betrayed it by ignoring the fact that Virginia's largest agency, The Virginia Department Of Corrections imprisons children, whose parents also have concerns about what is being done to them just as those parents who attacked schools and teachers to gain him the Governorship. The Virginia, Brain, Mind, Heart and Soul has a daily encounter with accounts of violations of prisoners , by Virginia Prison Officials, whom have swore oaths not to behave in the law breaking manner revealed in the one after the other law suits, media stories, pleas by parents, family and loved ones to their Representatives. Yet despite it all and the fact Governor Glenn Youngkin as Executive of The Commonwealth of Virginia is principally responsible for the extra-judicial practices and subsequent law breaking fest done with impunity by The Virginia Prison Official, we don't see the recognition that the abuses subjected to prisoners, who also have parents will not be overlooked and swept under the rug of indifference as misdeeds by the prison official has historically enjoyed. Look if one is convicted of violating law and imprisoned it should then on the, public trust merits of the police powers of the State introduce them to paragons of compliance with law in the prison official and not this reality of Virginia prisons where the prison official deploys law, functioning under its cover to break it and pervert it in every manner imaginable, thereby enabling the only pertinent, relevant and socially destructive question, whatever happened to "equal under law".The issue isn't about the conviction of a violation of law, but the fact that the prisoner is a prisoner because of law and despite this fact and its understanding being latent within Virginia's politics and politicians of both Parties have historically compromised it, because those Virginians impacted by it are consistently betrayed, doesn't mean it isn't there, it is. Virginia law and its jurisprudence traces its substance and logic to Anglo-Saxon or British Common law and practices, stemming from the Magna Carta .I make this point to say this, Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, its Laws and Jurisprudence appreciates and recognizes history and causality. Yet when it encounters its objective or its subject, the accused it conveniently and insidiously ignores history and the inescapable causality and it presents its work as what I'll describe as pretzel logic it ties itself into idealistic knots, which in turn births the offending and violator prison official. Virginia's history anticipates Glenn Youngkin's dismissal of the concerns of Parents of Virginia Prisoners, but with every revelation of prison official misdeed and violation, the common interest of Parents as opposed to its politicization emerges.

By William Thorpe

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

Locking Humans In a 6x8 Concrete Box For Days To Weeks At a Time Equals 🟰 Inhumanity At Its Worst

My loved one was originally at Green Rock Correctional Center. He was able to make daily calls. He was eating a Muslim diet and seemed somewhat situated considering the circumstances. While he was at GRCC there were no reports of rape, stabbing, suicide, drugs, or racism. He was transferred to Wallens Ridge State Prison last June. He too was a healthy weight. He lost in a matter of TWO WEEKS 16 pounds and in total 34 pounds. He’s trying his best to gain weight, but SOY served on a consistent daily basis doesn’t help. BTW Muslims are restricted from eating SOY and SOY BYPRODUCTS. Let’s talk about the bi-weekly if not weekly LOCKDOWN. I’ve not heard from him for over a week. WRSP just did an inspection/shakedown in January. They were lockdown for 17 days. During ANY lockdown it’s NOT a guarantee that showers will be allowed and hot soy meals served. I have learned that weekend calls, showers, and rec time depends on the CO’s mood. Virginia’s DOC policies on these issues clearly state:

ALL incarcerated persons shall have access to daily hygiene care. ALL incarcerated individuals shall receive 4-FOUR hours of recreational time. ALL incarcerated people shall be treated with dignity, respect, compassion, and humanely. Individuals shall be allowed to participate and practice their Religious Beliefs. However, at WRSP Muslims aren’t permitted to participate and practice prayer every Friday. Again, it comes down to the CO’s attitude. During Ramadan WRSP didn’t allow nor recognize the diet and fasting time. WRSP may spew that Muslim fasting and prayer is allowed, but it’s a BOLD FACE LIE. 

Since arriving at WRSP to current date there has been 3 stabbing/murder, several sexual assaults, multiple violent assaults, 4 suicides, and multiple drug overdoses. My concern with ALL of Virginia’s DOC facilities is the fact that ALL incidences are reported yet nobody seems willing to fix it!! Instead the solution is “LOCKDOWN!” Doesn’t anyone other than me see this for what it is- 

Modern Day Slavery. Locking humans in a 6x8 concrete box for days to weeks at a time equals = inhumanity at its worst. Why hasn’t the DOC figured out that constant lockdowns are a form of oppression and torture. Why are those who are incarcerated and haven’t committed any act of violence punished the same as those who are guilty of violence? The DOC has given each incarcerated person a number and labeled them useless for society. Unfortunately, our judicial system is corrupt, broken, and incompetent. There’s innocent people incarcerated because of our broken corrupt system and laws. Discrimination against color, race, gender, and religion is so rampant throughout our judicial system. Bottom line if a person isn’t wealthy, white, powerful, and holding a position of privilege they are AUTOMATICALLY GUILTY IN OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM! I know because my loved one’s life was taken away by a corrupt prosecutor because of his Religion. ALL the physical evidence proved his innocence. Even the judge acknowledged it throughout his trial. Our justice system doesn’t truly understand it’s NOT only the people incarcerated whose life has changed, it’s also the lives of those who love them. My loved one has missed 5 graduations, 2 marriages, 2 family members deaths, 2 children buying their first home, and a grandson. 

God be with those who seek to destroy the lives of others. May God’s mercy be upon those who change the course of life for others only to serve their own needs. 

By Diana

There Are Two Motive Forces, Speculative And Applied So Prison Reform In Virginia? By William Thorpe

What do we mean by oversight of The Virginia Department Of Corrections? Instead of explaining, let me give illustrations. First of all let's understand this, no one is in prison because of deed or behavior, The prisoner is specifically and solely a creation of law and the process of adjudication. Why is this significant because prison is full of prisoners who are found to have been victimized by fraudulent adjudication and its travesty. The point being the entire construct of prison is an embodiment of law. This point is understood in a couple of ways, the first as a misunderstanding by the mass person and the second, a deliberate distortion by those who benefit from the resulting social confusion and distortion. As a result conventional understanding of imprisonment is weirdly animated by the acceptance that the administration of prison requires a suspension of law which we encounter as a universe of colloquial retorts defending the extra-judicial, above the law behavior of the Virginia Prison Official. To the extent that the prison official begins to believe as if its a religious prerogative that violating law and its authority of defining terms of interaction with prisoners is his quintessential function and is to be expected and anticipated. This is the logic underlying and compelling oversight of the Virginia prison official

Okay lets get into it. If Virginia Governance cared about holding its Prison Officials accountable, the privileges inherent in and accorded the position and the accompanying immunities would lend equally as access to the position. But instead the reality is, the contradictory and antagonistic nature of Virginia's Social Contract bestows on its prison officials, and members of its Justice Infrastructure, what we know as that maxim, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So what we have is prisoners imprisoned for violating Virginia laws are then in turn subjected to its absolute violation by prison officials who enjoy absolute immunity in the performance of duties of the daily administration of prison. So for example the Virginia prison official, denys the prisoner food,outside exercise, showers, adequate clothing,medical and mental health care, contact with family, loved ones and friends. Rule breaking and infraction violations are fabricated and contrived, to add on and extend the prisoners prison sentence and the deprivation of privileges, the prisoner is under the daily reality of assault by the prison official under the guise of "control and management of prisoners", (at for example Red Onion,Wallens Ridge and Sussex I State Prisons, prisoners are under the State indulged "terroristic" logic of guns and savage dogs. Now whatever the logic of the Virginia prison official the only practical conclusion, based on what history has instructed is such accouterments, are arbitrary). What I'm pointing out is when the Virginia politician touts the purported production of a mechanism for oversight of the prison official, its measure by the Virginia prisoner isn't the simple appearance of text but what is the hazard for the violating official, what is the medium of accountability? Virginia Code 8.01 deals with civil remedies, Virginia Code 53.1 is an entire book of laws on prison and jails.The issue isn't necessarily "the reinvention of the wheel" laws, but how are we to hold the prison official accountable for the every single moment of the job performance, violations. To access law and its process, the Virginia prisoner has to satisfy and compleate a United States and Virginia mandatory process of law, called exhausting available administrative remedies. In other words the prisoner has to file complaints and grievances stating for example, Officer such and such on this day and time denied my breakfast meal. Then the prison's grievance department gets to play the game of claiming,"oh we have no records of receiving it". The prisoner is now in that proverbial catch-22, because as soon as the prisoner tries to access the courts (now don't forget that all of this is a result of the initial denial of a meal and if the prison official denys a prisoner a meal the violation doesn't simply stop, the prison guard keeps at it) so when the prisoner tries to go to the courts to simply get meals. The offending prison official who has been denying the prisoner meals, will have the Attorney General of The Commonwealth of Virginia, representing and defending his law breaking and the first thing the attorney general will say is the prisoner didn't comply with the law by "exhausting administrative remedies", when the reality is the prison or the State of Virginia through the prison's grievance department, obstructed, got in the way of the prisoners ability to take the violation to court and expose the law breaking by the prison official.

Virginia's Justice Infrastructure of which the prison system is a function treats its subjects, the adjudicated and prisoners as enemy combatants in an idealistic and strategicless conflict, imitative of the typical character of the nations recent wars, as if the primary function of Virginia's justice scheme is firstly to distribute money in economic-dead-zones, under the logic of Statism. Then as scape goat, diversion for the antagonistic nature of terms of The Social Contract. Because how else are we to understand a predicate based on the democracy of law, yet objectively violating it principally? What we find in the Virginia prison official and the administration of prison is the antithesis of law and the due process that created the Virginia prisoner, while insidiously presenting a face of "good faith and public trust" to the Virginia public.Think about this, Virginia prisons as Red Onion State Prison, literally starve prisoners particularly those it Solitary Confines, in violation of Operating Procedures, Policies, Practices of The Virginia Department of Corrections and its done with a wink and a nod from Executives of the Department, yet as soon as prisoners go on hunger strikes in protest prison officials deploy punitive measures against the protesting prisoners again its all done under tacit approval not only of the Departments Executives but Judges of The Federal and State Court systems. But for the most part the Virginia tax payer, funding the impunity causing the hunger strike, remains practically ignorant to its truth of what is actually being done by prison officials who have swore oaths not to violate and contravene laws. An ignorance thats the result of purposeful and deliberate omissions and failures by corporate media to expose it there by educating the Virginia electorate who can then determine if thats the society it wants along with the betrayal by Virginia politicians, Republicans for the most part and Democrats to a lesser extent. Corruption and hypocrisies in systems and institutions for whatever reason are not novel or strange. The point however is we cannot on the one hand purport indefeasibility of humanness while ridiculously violating it in an indulgence of crass sadisim under cover of, "governmental interest", because the prisoner subject due to specific unchanging histories exist as a Strawman. If the Virginia politician to whom the taxpayers will has been delegated intends, for the first time in Virginia's history, on constructing an actual mechanism for introducing the prison official to "equality under law", then the first step is the creation of an irrefutable complaint or prison grievance filing system, because the prison officials' first step in impunity, is lying about and denying that the prisoner has complied with the law requiring the exhaustion of administrative remedies or in other words filing a complaint. See, the case Blount v. Fleming 2006 U.S Dist. Lexis 44413 where a Federal judge ruled that a prison official at the grievance department of Red Onion State Prison lied concerning process of a prisoner's complaint and grievance. Look people this isn't news not to prisoners ,their families, loved ones and even victims of some of the crimes by prisoners who have come to realize that Virginia's Justice Infrastructure exploits them for political opportunity and expediency and isn't concerned with "justice".What is the meaning of the actions of the prison official, who deprives a prisoner meals or spits in the meals, then lies about it? The punishment according to Virginia law, is the " sentence", the years one spends imprisoned and anything more is extra-judicial.

By William Thorpe

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

Oversight Of The Virginia Department Of Corrections Is Another Tired Game Of Musical Chairs By William Thorpe

You see there is this adage or is it axiom, and I paraphrase, that if you can't speak for yourself someone else most definitely will and despite and regardless of best intentions, we are also reminded by that other apt adage, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions "and that is what has been playing out with all things concerning how we hold Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and The Prison System accountable. Forever, Virginia prisoners, we've had others claiming best intentions, speaking up for us. Now that in itself is a noble effort, considering the fact Virginia prison officials would rather have nothing more than we are muted, which forever has been their wish, considering that the prison official quintessentially, embodies the dictatorial presumptions inherent within Virginia's Social Contract. Now this thing of others speaking for you has another name and it is, Politics. As Virginia politics currently is and has been since British investors funded colonization of what is now Virginia and subsequently, became the original North American Colonies, the interest of those historical investors and eventual speculation became the logic, rationale, narrative in other words, the politics. Regardless of euphemisms, the verbiage, values e.t.c the fundamental irrefutable fact is the politics or speech is designed to defend the interest of a specific activity and in modern Virginia that activity doesn't care much for narratives or the politics that dares to hold it accountable by challenging its inconsistencies and violations. The Virginia Prisoner stands as social fact of certain realities of which, The Scape Goat is one while at the same time exposing that the defining politics is concurrently, as I've illustrated fraudulent and antagonistic and giving voice and exposure of this fact is what it means to bring forth the politics of "equal under law", or more correctly true oversight, which we are led to believe is what those who speaks for us, wish. What I'm describing demands, to what extent are we aware of this Virginia politics that permits and allows the prison official to be beyond reproach, without us accepting what the Great Schizophrenic In Chief, Thomas Jefferson emphasized in The Declaration Of The Nations Independence, with...." all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."(July 4,1776) and this describes what we've forever experienced as the musical chairs of oversight of the Virginia Department of Corrections based on (fill in the blank),but here is the reality, The Commonwealth Of Virginia already has laws, Code of Virginia section 2.2-309 (A/14 thru18),(C/1thru4) and there is Opinions of The Attorney General 2013 Va Ag Lexis 55 dealing with the powers already granted The State Inspector General. Then for good measure there is this case, Moschetti v. Off.of The Inspector General U.S. Dist. Lexis 144143.Now the point is theses laws exist and to what extent it does whats on paper which is, investigate, state agencies, including the Virginia Dept. of Corr. is how we exercise politics for ourselves, which means we engage the law and its process.

By William Thorpe

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

Its High Time The Virginia Department Of Corrections Started Taking Serious The Fact That It Answers To All Of Virginia By William Thorpe

The Virginia Department Of Corrections spends a lot of money, yes taxpayer money on medication for prisoners it classifys, Mental Health. Such classification is serious and meaningful. Because the Nation, since the Republican, now dead President Ronald Reagan's policies made light of and ignored mental health as a societal concern and issue, is remembering that mental health is vital to the body politic. As such Virginia Prison Officials are administratively behaving as if the National consensus that mental health is of a high concern has to at least be respected. Now a study of The Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedures, Policies, Memos and Practices will show that focus has been given the Mental Health issue and yes, its commendable. So why then in practice is something off? Because, if Virginia prison officials recognize that mental health is an issue and an obligation to be treated as a fundamental responsibility just as providing Prisoners with nutritionally adequate meals. Then we wouldn't find their treatment of the prisoner with the Mental health designation is as schizophrenic as a diagnosis. The terms of interaction with the mental health prisoner by prison officials is generally punitive, averse and prejudiced. What this consequently means is a mockery of the prisoner's Mental health designation, because the prisoner is sanctioned and punished for what is generally maladjustive behavior. Its as if the prisoner is in a perpetual state of diagnosis by any and all prison official, guard and employee. This is happening in spite of and notwithstanding The Departments myriad procedures and policies. When it comes to the Virginia prison official respecting and complying with law and a professional and lawful treatment of the Virginia prisoner, see the case Landman v. Roster 333 F.Supp.621 decided on October 30, 1971. So why are Virginia Prisoners in 2024 still dealing with the same issues, those valiant prisoners who in 1971 labored to hold prison officials accountable? Virginia Prison Officials and their allies rarely pass up on opportunities to characterize prisoners, ircorrigible but the reality is the prison official is the one that has par none shown and proven to be a serial violator at the most quintessential level, that of the public trust.

By William Thorpe

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

Prison Reform In Virginia Ain't About Politicians, But Politics By William Thorpe

First of all if we are to reform The Virginia Justice Infrastructure and its Prison system we need to develop and define the supporting narrative, meaning, the politics for ourselves, among the regular Virginia taxpayer based on our definitions and not that of The Virginia Politician, whose definitions are naturally engineered on a biased narrative supporting the politicians desires. Case in point The Virginia Department of Corrections use of Solitary Confinement is historically objectively reprehensible. Meaning there isn't any wholesome arguing point for its use, still Virginia politicians support and defend The Department of Corrections narrative for its use. At the expense of the wholesome, for the greater good determination that it is socially destructive and if we are to reform Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the prison system we have to have an accountable narrative supporting the reform meaning there has to be a clear and concise dissemination of political activity that removes the politicians interest and replaces it with our needs and wants, our interests. What this means is we have to recognize narratives that we have accepted as descriptive of our human experiences that are actually intended to sabotage and consequently undermine how we politicize our interests. So for example we are always telling ourselves not to do stuff that will impact the whole, whether it's in society or prison. In other words what we are saying is we accept that there are those waiting on a reason or excuse to oppose and challenge our narrative and deny our wants or policies, our aspirations and we have to be saints while they get to be human with all the understood frailties and shortcomings. Its as if our politics has to be approved by the same politicians who betray and compromise our interests. Politics is first and foremost about who gets the benefit of the doubt. So for example we see the Virginia prison official getting the benefit of the doubt regardless of how clearly offensively depraved the act, legally and socially. Because the prevailing politics bestows immunity on it and to stop this we must change the politics that's gives the offense cover.

Why am I saying that it ain't about politicians, but the politics. The Politician in American and Virginia politics is an embodiment of a point of view. Now despite the fact that Politics is also a point of view it is instead a collective or aggregate one.What the politician typically represents is the "don't rock the boat" point of view, meaning the politician is naturally anti reform and whatever reform engaged in is primarily to limit and even misdirect it. Look too much has already been written on politicians and politics but what we need is the courage to control it yes our politics for ourselves, because it is the story and narrative of our existence and how we determine and define the circumstances and conditions we understand are necessary and vital for our existence and it is also the politics we need to reform Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and prison system. No one in their right mind will argue and defend the position that Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and prison system, is firstly concerned with "justice" and secondly "public safety", when on both accounts what we have are politicians telling us what justice and public safety are. In other words the politics that gave us the current ideas of justice and public safety in Virginia had nothing to do with a politics representing our point of view and the taxes extracted from us supporting it. Here is an example, someone within the hierarchy of the Virginia Department of Corrections thought it made perfect sense to introduce teeth bared, drooling and snarling dogs into its prisons that held a large amount of Black prisoners as if Bull Connor wasn't reminder that no American, especially a Virginian public official, which is what prison officials are, should resurrect Bull Connoresque tactics. But The Virginia Department of Corrections under cover of the type of Virginia politics that permits Bull Connoresque narratives is emboldened to exploit dogs. So here is a point for our politics and narrative by speaking directly to the Virginia taxpayer and people, that,using dogs to rip the flesh of prisoners, not only has nothing to do with safety but it undermines the very idea of due process of Virginia law required for a stable society. Contrary to the myth that law speaks for all, law instead is a reflection and tool used against (the against is whoever is at odds) with the distinction being that when law is utilized to criminalize its intent is to control by distracting, using the symptoms of dysfunction as diversions from the causes.

By William Thorpe

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