THE SAVAGERY OF VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS HOG TYING A HANDICAPPED, DISABLED PRISONER---WHAT THE INCIDENT OF BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG INSTRUCTS AND WHY ARE OUR POLITICIANS NOT LISTENING By William Thorpe

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When our form of Government gives us accountability, we recognize it.The incident of the case, BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 Va. App. Lexis 550 (9/24/24) is an instance, a moment and we recognize it. Our Virginia State Courts do not have a track record of much dealings with the circumstance of the Virginia prison officials' created conditions and nature of Virginia's prison system, because the Virginia prisoner for certain historical reasons normally goes to the Federal Courts for redress and attempts at exacting accountability, but there are a few instances i.e. OGUNDE v. PRISON HEALTH SERVICES 274 VA. 55 (6/8/2007), BILLUPS v. CARTER 268 VA.701, so when a Virginia court as the Court of Appeals recently gave us accountability in the Burke Stanley Young case, I won't say its momentous but we recognize it. I speak specifically from the vantage of a Virginia prisoner, under the Commonwealth's jurisdiction, but exiled to the Texas prison system. As I've noted due to certain historical specifics, prisoners all across the Nation typically go to the Federal Court system seeking accountability. Yes it is an indictment against States and The States Right leeway but that's a discussion for another day, what I want to focus on is what the Burke v. Young case present and enables .BURKE,Conrad Burke is a Virginia prisoner who was held and confined during the facts that brought cause of the case in question at Virginia's POCAHONTAS STATE CORRECTIONAL CENTER. IN 2019, Prisoner Burke filed a grievance on a Pocahontas guard, JAMES POORE. First of all prisoner filed grievances are mandated by United States Law,at 42 U.S.C.S 1997(e) and Virginia also has its mandatory grievance law at Virginia Code 8.01-243.2.What these grievance procedures simply mean is regardless of the facts a prisoners claim will be dismissed when the prison official and their representative, The Virginia Attorney General attacks the prisoners compliance with the grievance law. So Conrad Burke's grievance on James Poore was necessary to save Mr Burke's option of going to court. Then, Pocahontas prison guard James Poore retaliated against prisoner Burke by claiming ,Burke had the cell's intercom covered, that he had extra clothes, food in the cell and had cussed out a nurse, then Poore claimed Burke had pushed a meal tray at him in a manner where food got on him, the claim was found to be "meritless". Now prisoner Conrad Burke suffers from, "SEVERE THORACIC SCOLIOSIS, DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE and CONGENITAL HIP DYSPLASIA" and Pocahontas Prison Officials had him assigned to a special medical cell, with hand railing e.t.c to stabilize his mobility. So this is the context where a number of Pocahontas prison guards on February 22,2019, fully cognizant and aware of his medical condition, ordered Prisoner Burke to strip to his boxers, hog tied him with shackles, handcuffs, chains and a black box that keeps ones hands rigid and left him without food, bathroom breaks for appx.21 hours,during which he fell and couldn't right himself up. The prison guards who subjected prisoner Burke to this savage and barbaric treatment told him it was under the direction of the prison's warden, Stanley Young, because of the claim that he had tossed food. I ask you the reader to get the case and read it. We congratulate his lawyers, DANNY ZEMEL (ALLAN STUART GRAF, JOHN F.PREIS, DAVID FLORES, THE KRUDYS LAW FIRM, UNIV.OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW DAVID FLORES)

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