YES, THE RE-ENTRY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISONER INTO SOCIETY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE ENTIRE IMPRISONMENT SCHEME, YET SYSTEMICALLY IGNORED AND PAID LIP SERVICE TO By William Thorpe

Let me begin with no one has answers, which is also to say no one knows it all. When and if we are fortunate, we grasp questions, to which we begin to answer and criminal justice to a modern society as The Commonwealth Of Virginia, is a Question. The history of Law including criminal justice in Virginia is old, ancient as the Human Condition and rightly so, because it is the evolution of it's answers. Of course for all sorts of reasons there are data points of its process, so we'll encounter stuff like, based on this English Common Law e.t.c, which then begs, before Blackstone and his ilk started, characterizing and organizing traditions and proclamations, as Law, which in this context, English Common, people had enough Law or manner of interactions that were practical and judicious enough to sustain human survival to where we, now exist. The point is modern Virginia society didn't invent the wheel nor can reinvent it but only refine and qualify it, which is to say underscore the evolution of answers. So contextually, criminal justice in the Commonwealth shouldn't be stuck in an Era: despite the fact political opportunists and speculators ply its presumption. Nor should it be held hostage to the divide and conquer and the end justifies the means idealistic thinking. Criminal Justice in Virginia and its Prison system, is inarguably barbarous and savage and there is nothing empirical, as utility in our human condition that justifies it. Yes a 1870's Virginia Supreme Court right after The Civil War or War Between The States gave us the infamy in RUFFIN V. COMMONWEALTH 62 Va 790, that the Virginia prisoner only existed in the ignorance's of assumptions and speculations. Despite, its theoretical repudiation, the decision is still synoptically streaking in the lazy thinking and hypocrisies determining Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Prison System. But the potential, meaning questions our human condition presents and ask demands that we change it. Imprisoning a Virginian is an answer, while the question of the prisoner's re-entry into society as a responsibility isn't treated as such because it has been ceded as expression of who has the right to pose and ask it, another instance of the antagonisms roiling the Social Contract. Conventional wisdom would imply that the Virginia legislator, should give us the answer, but parameters of The Social Contract tells us, we'd be naive. Our elected Representatives or legislators are not bound to act in the interest of, "We The People", yes they seek our votes under its assumptions, but as a Commonwealth we elect the presumption of their "judgement" or "commonsense", in other words we give them our blind faith to reach decisions that will enable the progressive evolution of social answers which as it concerns how the Virginia prisoner re-enters society are the most important. However, historically this question, not only hasn't received answers but it hasn't even been recognized as a question and If it is to be elevated and not relegated to the scape goat imperative of the justice infrastructure dynamic, it will require a politics of all of Virginia led by Families of Virginia Prisoners and Victims of Crime. A politics that will present questions, enabling the development of a social contract that isn't endemically sabotaging itself with scape goatism.

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