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