WHAT EPIGENETICS HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE BARBARITY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY ITS USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT By William Thorpe

I'm a prisoner under the jurisdiction of The Commonwealth of Virginia currently held by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, because Virginia exiled me here. My focus is on Virginia. What I'm about to speak on is something, Virginia politicians, leaders, institutions, specifically educational institutions i.e The University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic University at Blacksburg and Businesses should have and in pursuit of the wholesome and honest governance defined by The Social Contract brought and presented to the Virginia public for debate relating to Virginia's practice of imprisonment and solitary confinement as a significant component of its Justice Infrastructure. But as we have experienced forever, Virginia's politics as established by its status quo which I have identified above does everything but and at the very expense of good governance. The renowned neuroscientist and epigeneticist, Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin of Columbia University has been doing serious work on showing and relatively establishing that and how our experiences are passed on generationally through our genes. Traditionally and colloquially people have surmised that experiences are transmitted generationally, but EPIGENESIS and EPIGENETICS is showing that it isn't mere Farmers Almanac talk as shown by Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin's work. The experience of Virginia imprisonment is patently and gratuitously savage. The point of its criticism isn't based on and off the nature of the prison official, but a more fundamental indictment of the apathy and indifference of the people and society of The Commonwealth to it's lack of attention and responsibility to what is done to the prisoner in their name. EPIGENESIS is a reminder and instructor that thoughtless harm is being done to future generations of our human condition and society who regardless of the logic and relative justification of the savagery of the imprisonment impacts us as society. Prisoners are released, prisoners return to and become members and participants of the greater society with the irreparable harm of the, as shown by Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin's epigenetic work,(and I paraphrase) the lived experiences of past generations are passed down genetically, which as it relates to this work is the savagery of the Virginia prison experience. The average Virginia citizen going about their replicative conditions for existence isn't relatively expected to be aware of the actuality of the hazards of experiential genetic imprints to have a moral and ethical ground, from which to scrutinize the barbarous behavior of the Virginia prison official. But that's what a society's leaders and institutions are for and its on that crucial and organic point are we sold short and betrayed. Because contrary to the exploitation of the Virginia citizenry's cluelessness and ignorance, by the usual factions and their shared indulgence of short sighted and selfish interests, Virginia society suffers when the public is dispossessed of information, knowledge and the understanding necessary to actually repair society towards the realization and harnessing of the inherent potential of all the people. The Virginia Department of Corrections, its overlord, Governor Glenn Youngkin, regardless of idealistic rationale for using solitary confinement have to contend with its epigenetic harm.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982