NOT ONLY ARE WE AWASH IN PRISON REFORM GROUPS, BUT HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT IT's MENTAL LABOR? WELL THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WE KEEP VOTING FOR THOSE, WHO WORSHIP CRIME AND SCAPE GOAT PRISONERS By William Thorpe

Awright first of all I'm a prisoner, I'm in solitary confinement and on top of that Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I say this to state that there isn't much about Virginia and to wit the Nation's criminal justice apparatus and system that is lost on me. Now let me also say this, that as I put this together, prisoners at Virginia's comprehensive immersion into the CONCENTRATION CAMP business, RED ONION STATE PRISON, the prison I was held at from its opening in 1998, (as a matter of fact I was one of the first in its A-Building) to 2019,when I was flown on the Governor of Virginia's plane, exiled to Texas, are setting themselves on fire, going on hunger strikes in protest of the same old tired, barbarous and savage prison official attitudes, behavior and practices that not only are extra-judicial but have nothing to do with the mission statement and purpose of The Virginia Department of Corrections. The human, the Virginian convicted of violating law and then imprisoned is not the measure of incorrigibility as the narrative of the Justice Infrastructure, its functionaries and support system, scape goats. But the embodiment of the Justice Infrastructure and prison system, the prison official is the vessel of incorrigibility. We don't hold nor indict the personalization of behavior instead what we indict and hold to account are THE SOCIAL CONTRACT and the civilization it defines. Because what the behavior of the Virginia prison official in 2024, reveals and clearly instructs is, if what we have and experience are a practice of barbarity and savagery, predating the twenty or thirty something year old prison official perpetrator, yet is the same thing Virginia's Social Contract and political-economy was doing to enslaved Black people as parameters and terms of its social relations and were clearly vile, a humanistic and that most base of conduct, hypocrisy. Then that individual human, that Virginian in violation of a criminal code is a point for reintegration, while the prison official malfeasance exist as a systemic continuum to be reformed. I titled this work, acknowledging the proliferation of prison reform groups in Virginia and across the Nation, yet the barbarity and savagery of the prison official continues relatively unabated. This carceral fact speaks to that typical social fact, which is, what we understand, how we want to understand it and to what extent are we allowing it to guide our motive force and activity. You know what, let me state the obvious, which is, THE or THAT AGENCY OF OUR SPEECH. So naturally and contextually we state and indicate our agency by what we do. In Virginia society and Nationally the highest act is that of voting. If THE PRISON SYSTEM, is the quintessential value of society and on all accounts it is then society has to and must understand it, because those society votes for, in absence of that necessary understanding will as we have continuously experienced take advantage of the existing social ignorance and continue behaviors and practices which in the light of day are discredited and indicted as uncivilized while as I have posited, exist and flourish in the prison officials behavior in the confines of Virginia's Concentration Camps, which a former Virginia Governor described as "his monument" which proves my point that incorrigibility isn't as scapegoated, a purview of the convicted, but is status quo.

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