SO GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN WILL HAVE THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE VIRGINIA EXECUTIVE WHOSE PRISON POLICIES WERE PROTESTED BY PRISONER SELF-IMMOLATION By William Thorpe

Historically Virginia has shown the world, the depths to which human depravity and sadism reaches and is capable. From the schizophrenic hypocrisies of Thomas Jefferson, through the supremacy delusions of James Madison in support of the chattel enslavement of Black People, Virginia has proclaimed to the world that when it was thought that humanity couldn't be demented, anymore perverted, it had some mouth openers to reveal, so it gave us all the craziness of Samuel Purchas and his HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS. Fast forward to Virginia in 2024 and Governor Glenn Youngkin and his strenuous work at resurrecting 1676 Virginia of the long dead Governor George Berkeley, with the tried and proven gambit of suppression by reaction by deploying and exploiting the distraction of opposition to prison reform. Glenn Youngkin became Governor of Virginia in 2022 under the usual reactionary banner of the Republican Party, replacing Eight years of Democratic rule. Eight years that saw certain positive reform moves of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the prison system. Reforms that brought on rabid and illogical Republican ire. Solitary Confinement of prisoners is a well used type of imprisonment in Virginia as across the Nation, despite its cruel and unusual nature, which The Supreme Court Of The United States, as early as the 1890's declared in the case IN Re. MEDLEY, to be (and I paraphrase) an infamous punishment without any socially redemptive value. The struggle to rid The Nation of its existence or it's reform has been continuous and ongoing and reformers in Virginia,also have been on the front lines pushing for it's abolishment in Virginia prisons and use by The Virginia Department Of Corrections.During the Republican Governance of Glenn Youngkin and his cabal,efforts to reform Virginia's practice of solitary confinement with all of its deleterious and barbarous effects have produced bills, which Governor Glenn Youngkin in his a Solomonic wisdom irrationally and unconscionably has vetoed. (I have in previous works exposed the irrationality of the veto) What I am focusing on with this work is the consequence of Youngkin's veto.Recently prisoners at Virginia's flagship concentration camp, (hell let me spell it with a k,so it's) kamp, Red Onion State Prison in protest of their solitary confinement and the type and nature of imprisonment it subjects them, have been self-immolating.First of all let's focus on what this truly means.Human beings imprisoned are resorting to the utterly incomprehensible act of setting themselves on fire as means of protest, a manner of speech that their circumstance, their condition is so beyond the pale of known cruelty, known savagery, known monstrosity that their only recourse is to set themselves ablaze, on fire as a result of the Governor of Virginia,Glenn Youngkin's ahumanistic act of vetoing the will and intent of the people of Virginia, to reform the solitary confinement of prisoners in their name. A study of the purported reasons of Youngkin's veto of the anti-solitary confinement bill, reveals its fetid moral bankruptcy, another stark reminder that despite efforts to redeem Virginia from its ahumanistic heritage and tradition, much more work has to be done.What we indict Governor Glenn Youngkin of is his intellectual dishonesty.No one claims that criminal adjudication isn't a necessary state and function of society, but what we oppose is it's doublespeak.

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