YES THERE IS MORE TO VIRGINIA'S STATUS QUO CONTINUATION OF SHIPPING VIRGINIA PRISONERS TO OTHER STATE'S PRISON SYSTEM..... by William Thorpe

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So currently Virginia has, since May 29, 2019 exiled William Thorpe to the Texas Prison system. Gerald McNabb has been sent to Wyoming. A number of prisoners, Rodney Antonio Tucker, to Tennessee, Raymond D. Taylor, to Nevada, Bernard Meeks, to Missouri, Leon Crowe, to Illinois, Christopher Lee Joyner, to Illinois, Michael S. Edwards, to New Mexico, Winston NaJee Reed, to Nevada, Kevin A. Canada, to South Carolina, Uhuru Sekou Obataiye-Allah, to Oregon, North Carolina, Maryland, Lamont O'Shea Douglas, to New Jersey. These are just some of the names of Virginia prisoners shipped to other State Prison Systems. Let me stress, these listed names are just some, the tip of the iceberg. In an earlier work, titled, "JUST AS VIRGINIA SLAVE OWNERS DURING SLAVERY WOULD SHIP CERTAIN ENSLAVED TO OTHER PLANTATIONS, THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HAS KEPT UP THE PRACTICE BY SHIPPING CERTAIN PRISONERS TO OTHER PRISON SYSTEMS", I spoke on how Virginia has continued the practice all through the 1980's.I explained how, there are two types of out of state transfers or as the practice is labeled, INTERSTATE COMPACT, with the first being INVOLUNTARY--meaning the prisoner is forcibly without consent shipped out of state (the listed names were for the most part involuntary transfers) the other type of transfer is VOLUNTARY-meaning the prisoner ask for it, seeks it. Now the Virginia Department of Corrections understands and is completely aware that shipping a Virginia prisoner out of state, hundreds or thousands of miles away from Virginia is counterproductive to the very purpose of its logic of imprisonment and its at odds with its own mission statement. Nonetheless it still does it and what this practice shows and reveals is what we already know and understand, which is, Law, its administrative policies and procedures as applied by the State of Virginia are contrivances, conveniences, means to ends. So for example see this case, DOUGLAS V. CHAPMAN 2022 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 133143, this case deals with a Virginia prisoner shipped to the New Jersey prison system and the hardships and obstacles being out of state places and imposes on a prisoners parole prospects. Parole, even in the conditional optimal circumstance of the Virginia prisoner being in State is a rocky ask, now factor in that the prisoner is out of State, making it virtually impossible for a realistic possibility for parole. A prisoner from one State held in another State making parole, is one of those Unicorn fantasies. But, despite the fact Virginia along with all her sister state prison systems justify their purpose as returning the imprisoned citizen to society as a functioning member, the practice of involuntarily shipping prisoners to alien systems belies it.

First of all we have to stop playing these delusional relationship games with The Justice Infrastructure, The prison system and Virginia's application of both. The question or issue has never been about the materialization of a supposed or presumed "perfection" in human affairs, its condition and What is Justice. Forever we have participated in a laughable but destructive state of accepted hypocrisy in all aspects of our human condition, to the point that the functioning narrative for the hypocrisy is, blaming the other. Because as it applies to the functions of The Virginia Department Of Corrections, it's every single operational expression is contrary to it's authority, which no matter how its excused, with whatever chosen sophistry we use as blinders, the fact is starkly revealed that the colloquial fly in the ointment, as consistently scapegoated isn't the convicted and imprisoned person, but the comical and hapless betrayal of the collective aspiration of what is justice and it's effort of process. If the average frazzled Virginian going about their daily pursuits of existence is honestly ignorant or snarkly apathetic about the state and condition of The Commonwealth's Prison System and their grasp and idea is that simplistic parroting of, "don't do the crime if you can't do the time". Then we can contextualize it as that sort of citizenship, necessary for the existence of a neo-feudalistic politics in service of the practice of a governmental organized violence, where the prison system as foot soldier is "above the law", unaccountable and a terroristic mechanism of controlling the people. Which is exactly how The Virginia Department of Corrections is used. There isn't a specific violation of law by The Department in its operations, but a comprehensive and general one. This is a result of that hold over from its genesis, which is, Virginia's history of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the indentured servitude of a type of White Person. Where the human being was reduced to the hypocrisy of something less. As such when Virginia exploited its imprisonment scheme as substitute and replacement for its loss of labor for its slavery political-economy after losing the civil war of 1860, which was fought to maintain the enslavement of people, specifically Black People, it inculcated the dehumanizing character of slavery into it under cover of a perverse application of "justice".Yes, historically in human affairs, running afoul of law, social norms and customs brought on punishment and sanction but not the less than human narrative we encounter in Virginia's practice of imprisonment. Historically, when people were adjudged without Virginia's slavery deviation and were condemned to death, the humanity was still retained. The inevitable result of this antagonistic fact of a purported application of "justice" is its above the law presumptions of the Virginia prison official, where the prison official, their oversight political overlords and the Virginian in whose name all of this mess is done, claim and profess to comply with law and accountability, pursue its equality and the faith and trust in The Social Contract, while mocking the entire construct by the simple fact of denying the humanity of The Virginia Prisoner. The proof of this denial is in every single thing the prison official does.

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