VIRGINIA GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN VETOED AND VETOED 2024 LEGISLATIVE SESSION PRISON REFORMS THEN HE SIGNED INTO LAW A PRISON "OVERSIGHT" OMBUDSMAN, MAKES ME WONDER, IT MUST BE TOOTHLESS By William Thorpe

The State of Virginia has a peculiar way with laws, thats purely insidious. So in 1848, when Virginia was an out and out savagely unapologetic, slave holding State, the all White male legislature passed an anti abortion law, which read "Any free person who shall administer to any pregnant woman, any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or use or employ any instrument or other means....."(blah,blah blah)...what I want you the reader to pay attention to is the text of the law, it reads, "Any free person...."now in 1848 Virginia legally recognized two types of Virginians, Free and unfree, the unfree were enslaved Black people and White indentured servants. So when those White male legislators, qualified their purported anti-abortion position with, "Any Free person....."they were deliberately and insidiously giving their Women a way out and also saving themselves means to abort the evidence from their rape of enslaved Black Women, because a enslaved or indentured person with expertise and know how, could now within the letter of the law induce and perform abortion, because the "Any Free person....."qualifier didn't apply. Oh by the way, Virginia was the only State to assert such abortion qualifier, even Territorial Arizona, with its 1865 abortion law (which on its resurrection by its 2024 Supreme Court, has violently reminded people how casually and cavalierly backwards laws can rule again, when the politics is a regression to 1865) didn't have such a qualifier. Now fast forward to Virginia politics in 2024, where there isn't any denial, the Virginia tax payer are fatigued but not deluded over stories after story in main stream media exposing the unfathomable and unimaginable behavior of the Virginia prison official under The Virginia Department of Corrections all under guise of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure. In response to the systemic law breaking and impunity of the Virginia prison official is the natural push towards holding the offending prison official accountable, because say what you will about the status quo's impulse and imperative to maintain its supremacy and rule by keeping the workings and machinery of governance and government as shibboleth and conniving, The People despite it all, know and can smell it, even if they can't articulate it and at times even support and defend its corruption. Mothers, Wives, Families, friends of the Virginia prisoner along with in principle Victims of crime, have consistently pushed for accountability of the Virginia prison official under equality of law. Which brings us to Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2024, recently signing HB 555, prison oversight ombudsman into law. What the advocacy for the oversight ombudsman ignored and jettisoned, thereby allowing Governor Glenn Youngkin the frame of signing a pseudo accountability law is, what the Virginia prisoner needs the most is a verifiable complaint and grievance filing process, because the point and tip of the prison officials impunity is the absolute control over, the grievance filing process, which is legally required for the American prisoner to access both State and Federal Courts. The ombudsman law signed by Glenn Youngkin, will not inhibit the prison official from playing games with and lying about a prisoner accessing the grievance process and if anyone is serious about holding the prison official accountable, demand a verifiable grievance process.

By William Thorpe

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