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