A Careful Study Of 34 USCS 30309 And 108 P.L.79, 117 Stat. 972 Detailing The, Prison Rape Elimination Act Of 2003 Is Astonishing By William Thorpe

Conventional wisdom, opines that Politicians, law and policy makers are apathetic and even deaf to the commonsensical and practical observations delivered by Prison Reformist, that the typical treatment meted out to the American Prisoner and the conditions of the imprisonment, which is akin to the activity of the colloquial "snake oil" salesman is counter intuitive and self defeatist on all levels of the American Prison experiment. So when one encounters, analysis and unambiguous declarations in this milieu, reminiscent of the futility and reaction of the 19th century's "Know-Nothings", it must be acknowledged. Because it presents us with that axiom, the"genie is out of the bottle" and no amount of sophistry can deny the fact, ignorance as defense doesn't exist anymore. Which is exactly what the 108th U.S. Congress revealed with their work on The Prison Rape Elimination Act. Because all one has to do is replace the word "rape" in the Act with any circumstance of prison that is systemic and a DeFacto condition and the findings and conclusions hold true and factual. So the only question is why are, Prison Officials allowed to run prisons as they do when law makers and policy makers are firmly grounded in the knowledge that the operations and current management of prisons are Sisyphean in their singular focus on aggravating and worsening the circumstances of the imprisoned? And as a matter of fact, it is fraudulent and a betrayal of the public's trust that the prison official are for example taking control of a 18 yr. old sentenced to prison on account of a conviction of drug dealing and treating the 18yr. old in that manner, which Philosophers as Cesare Beccaria (1739-1794) criticized 259 years ago. Now as this relates to Virginia law makers and politicians, all I ask is they reread and study 34 USCS 30309, the findings, replace the word "rape" with for example the Virginia prison officials habit of sicing dogs on Virginia prisoners, or starving prisoners then lying about it, denying prisoners outside exercise, then lying about it, refusing to process prisoner complaints, then lying about it, employing a pro forma rubber stamp for what should be a honest process of prisoner release from solitary confinement. In other words terrorizing the prisoner. Or how about we scrutinize the Virginia lawmakers behavior in passing laws concerning the imprisoned that render the ex prisoner socially dysfunctional all along scapegoating the resulting and inevitable pitfalls. In other words the realization of Article 1 of The Constitution of Virginia is that proverbial, cutting off the nose to spite the face. Because thats exactly what the unwillingness of all of Virginia's Institutions, from its law schools, churches and places of religion, to all sectors of the Social Contract to face up to the fact, that something is seriously awry in a society when the dominant and major outlay and expense of its productivity is for confining humans in cages. In 1965, Lord Chancellor Gardiner of the British House of Lords, had this to say to his bewigged brethren, over the state practice of killing people. It is apt for this work."When we abolished the punishment for treason that you should be hanged, and then cut down while still alive,and then disemboweled while still alive and then quartered, we did not abolished the punishment because we sympathized with traitors, but because we took the view that it was a punishment no longer consistent with our self respect ",

By William Thorpe

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