TO LET CHADWICK DOTSON THE DIRECTOR OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TELL IT, THE PRISONERS ARE WHATS WRONG, WELL WE RESPOND WITH: HIS TREATMENT OF THEM IS WHATS WRONG AND HERE ARE THE DIRTY LAUNDRY FACTS By William Thorpe

Pictures are taken from the internet and are used for illustrative purposes only"

The Commonwealth of Virginia has a State Board of Corrections and once upon a time the position of The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections was subordinate to it, then for whatever reason Virginia politicians aka legislators decided the people of Virginia needed a dictator running their imprisonment scheme and prison system. So we have witnessed a parade of petty dictators enjoying fat pay checks, the largesse of The People of Virginia, to this current dictator, Chadwick Dotson and his imitation of dictator Nero, Emperor of Rome who is forever in history as fiddling while Rome burned, which dictator Dotson will also forever be in history as the Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections who also fiddled while Virginia prisoners under his care set themselves on fire, were self-immolating, because that was what the reality of his care impelled them to do. Now there is a narrative that prisons are black holes, inscrutable enclosures, where nothing much of what goes on is revealed unless its what the prison official wants, in other words what will be beneficial to the dictator and this narrative is enabled and actively developed and maintained by a majority of society's fundamental, foundational and bulwark institutions. Starting with the victims of crime, who instead of ensuring that the convicted person who is now imprisoned because of law and its process, is treated according to law (the same law that is affording justice) turn a blind eye to the impunity and law breaking savagery and barbaric treatment of the prisoner by the dictator. Then we encounter the hypocrisy and complicity of Religion and it's various Faiths, who prostitute their tenets to curry favor from the State by being their "three monkey see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil self". Our academia and higher institutions, are also caught up in and dealing with their "three monkey see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil demons". Next in line are both positions of Business from, ownership or management to labor or the worker, both genuflecting to the liege with their " three monkey see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil servility. Then the penultimate, Virginia's corporate media and its inability to understand its purpose. I haven't been one of those who has allowed convention to distort and muddy my polemic against media, from it being a reactionary font for propaganda, to its status quo bias and the most damming, its complicity. And its with media we see the undermining effect and diabolical nature of the prison or the Virginia prison is a black hole narrative, which then allows obfuscation not only of the underpinning concept and it's practice but the ability and very nature of questioning and challenging the suppositions in its defense. In so many words its just as the Religious sophistry of "fiat", yet let's "discuss", which is just an exercise in twisting ones self into knots or the spectacle of a dog chasing its tail, with the real, deliberate and intentional purpose of keeping the People of Virginia subordinated to anathematized formulations of the Social Contract by presenting ignorance as cognition and understanding. Because if media and all our foundational institutions accepted the necessity of what it means to know, to have an educated electorate, which The Supreme Court of The United States, stated clearly in JOINT ANTI-FASCIST REFUGE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S.123 "..... [A] democratic government must therefore practice fairness and fairness can rarely be obtained by secret, one-sided determination of facts decisive of rights" and this echoes an earlier Supreme Court of The United States finding in IN W. Va.STATE Bd. of EDUC. v. BARNETTE 319 U.S. 624 (1943) where Justice Jackson wrote in the majority opinion, building on the reasoning in MINERSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT v. GOBITIS 310 U.S. 586..."The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. Ones right to Life, Liberty, and Property, to Free Speech, a Free Press, Freedom of Worship and Assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote they depend on the outcome of no election" (then he continues)" [T]hose who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard".....What these above excerpts help instruct is, The Social Contract or The Constitutionalized aspirations of The People or Society cannot be realized without a comprehensive grasp of what is being done in their name, which for The Commonwealth of Virginia is the understanding of what Chadwick Dotson as Chief prison official, is doing to the imprisoned Virginian. If the Virginia media in particular, considering that it has a constitutional responsibility to inform the Virginia polity wanted to fulfill those obligations in a real way and not a pro forma, performative one, what we would see is when Chadwick Dotson and The Virginia Department of Corrections hide behind the usual gambits employed by Virginia government officials to conceal. Media would look to all those other avenues of disclosures and revelations of what is being done, which court records are one, families and friends of the Virginia prisoner are another and specifically the understanding from victims of crime that breaking law by Chadwick Dotson in his treatment of the Virginia prisoner isn't their expected justice of accountability and is just another expression of deviance and criminality. So when we study a listing of Virginia Court records. We find chronicles upon chronicles of claims, allegations of prison official deviance and criminality by Virginia prisoners accusing Chadwick Dotson's dictatorship of abuse, misconduct, malfeasance, savagery and barbarity. Now for you the reader who might not be savvy to American and Virginia jurisprudence, there is a concept, respondeat superior or "let the superior make answer", which as [BLACK'S LAW] defines," The doctrine holding an employer or principal liable for the employee's or agent's wrongful acts committed within the scope of the employment or agency". What makes this germane to the law breaking of Chadwick Dotson's dictatorship is, under the classic manner Virginia prisoners sue or take the Virginia prison official to court for their deviance and criminality is by a Federal Law, 42 U.S.C.S section 1983 and under its interpretation by The Supreme Court of The United States in the case MONELL v. Dept. of Soc. Servs. 436 U.S. 658, it doesn't allow or permit a straight forward application or use of the, respondeat superior, and in a follow up case, ASHCROFT v. IQBAL 556 U.S. 662, The Court gave a bit of clarity on how respondeat superior is used. The jurisprudence on respondeat superior has been structured on the Court's 1908 ruling in Ex PARTE YOUNG 209 U.S. 123. Now in Virginia jurisprudence which is also structured on the MONELL ruling, we find these determinations, ASHBURY v. CITY OF NORFOLK 152 Va 228, SUFFOLK CITY SCH. BD. v. WAHLSTROM 392 Va. 188 and BD. OF SUPERVISORS OF FAIRFAX CNTY. v. LEACH-LEWIS 303 Va. 225. The situation with the law and with all of these twist and turns is the Virginia prisoner is not a lawyer or legal scholar and even amongst lawyers and legal scholars there isn't unanimity of interpretation, application or what the law is saying, because notwithstanding Justice Jackson's correct reading and jurisprudence in the 1943 W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. BARNETTE case, law and jurisprudence are consequences of Politics, in other words when the politics is human development affirmative or Progressive or simply put, "common sense" we find the wisdom of a 1943 Justice Jackson but when the politics is reactionary or short sighted, selfish, exploitive and feudalistic we find the sophistry of the anti-respondeat superior jurisprudence which only allows one thing and one only "impunity". So, as we will see with this listing of Virginia prisoner filed cases against Chadwick Dotson's employee activity and behavior at Virginia's KONCENTRATION KAMP RED ONION STATE PRISON, ranging from self-immolation to physical and sexual assault, the Virginia prison official uses law to do lawless and reprehensible deeds. Here are Virginia prisoner claims: GORDON v. STUMPF 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 170277----WHITE v. MAYS 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 14923----OBIE v. FULLER 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 219369---CARTER v. COLLINS 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51923---- DEFOUR v. HALL 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 109352-----PRICE v. HUBBARD 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 223200---- MADISON v. DOTSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 234698----CARTER v. ELY 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 38334-----CARTER v. KING 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 14925----JACKSON v. ROBINSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 119173---- MOULTRIE v. SMITH 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 988-----JONES v. WHITE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 186345----BINGHAM v. RAMEY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXUS 985----GEORGE v. COUNS. KEGLEY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 12943-----WALKER v. KISER 2022 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 56878----GODFREY v. DAVIS 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 108421-----WILLIAMS v. GILBERT 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51922----RIDDICK v. MOORE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 55162-----WALL v. McCOWAN 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 155981-----MAKDESSI v. FOX 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 56444------WHITTEN v. JOHNSON 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 42151------CARTER v. KING 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 34555------ANDERSON v. CLARKE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 164446-----DEFOUR v. WHITE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 56423------LEE v. BENTLEY 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 74659-----CARTER v. ELY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 37499----BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 Va. App. LEXIS 580.This listing of cases or claims and allegations of Virginia prison official violations by Virginia prisoners are just a drop in the bucket in a tsunami of savagery and barbarity that is allowed to exist by the failings of Virginia's corporate media in fulfilling its Constitutional duty, see Virginia Constitution, Article 1 Section 12 Freedom of Speech and of the Press-----"That the freedoms of speech and of the press are among the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained except by despotic governments....." and what we see and experience is Virginia's corporate or mainstream medias' abrogation and compromises of the straight forward declarations of Section 12 and its, selling itself and us The People out to that 'despotism' Virginia's Constitution cautions against. For one on, February 16,2022 The Virginia Department of Corrections using taxpayer money sent out a press release, claiming media coverage of its doings or activities was "inaccurate" and "skewed", to which Virginia's mainstream media cowered in silence, despite the unconstitutional intent of the press release. But even besides the Department's obvious desperation as revealed with its incredible press release, Virginia's corporate and mainstream media by failing to see in the multitudinous existence of prisoner claims against prison official behavior that are public records is telling us that it isn't up to its Constitutional duties. Then lastly, blame for the laweless and reprehensible behavior of Chadwick Dotson as Chief Prison Official and his rank and file underlings lies and rest with The People. What exactly is Law, if it isn't the foundation of The Social Contract ? And if as our ancients have painstakingly lectured and I paraphrase that the existence of injustice is comprehensive and therefore isn't a lesson the voting Virginian has to be taught?. Meaning if imprisonment of the convicted Virginian under process of law is under the logic of accountability and The Social Contract's integrity it's cohesion.But the prison official tasked with the care of the imprisoned Virginian is instead compromising that logic of accountability and The Social Contract's integrity in the most vile manner,that of "betrayal of its trust and faith" then blame rest squarely with The People.

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

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By vapac

‘Dangerously understaffed:’ Inmates describe fear and violence behind Red Onion’s walls by Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury

                                                  Red Onion State Prison in Wise County (Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of Corrections.

‘Dangerously understaffed:’ Inmates describe fear and violence behind Red Onion’s walls

by Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury
March 4, 2025

Dontae Ebron’s family has been on edge. 

A physical altercation last summer at Red Onion State Prison, where he is incarcerated, left them deeply concerned for his safety, his brother Dominic said in an email. 

Ebron alleges that officers used excessive force on him last July, but the complaint he filed was deemed “unfounded.” Copies of paperwork he mailed to The Mercury confirm that he was sprayed with mace and force was used on him, though he disputes the details of what the document says happened. 

According to Ebron’s complaint, correctional officers assaulted him by spraying mace into his cell and bending his arm and fingers through the cell’s tray slot. After officers escorted him for medical attention, he alleged that he wasn’t given water to rinse off the mace and that an officer tripped him, slamming his face to the ground. 

Prison paperwork tells a different story. The official report states that force was appropriately used because Ebron’s arm had been “out of the tray slot.” It also claims that he was “offered decontamination” but refused. As for the body slamming, the report says it happened because Ebron “pulled away from staff and attempted to spit.”

But Ebron, in a letter to The Mercury, says that’s not what happened, and that he was “spitting because they maced me and never let me get any water.”

He’s since asked for security camera footage of the incident to be preserved, believing it will confirm his version of events as well as the officers’ actions.

“Speaking for myself, I know I haven’t been nowhere near perfect, but that doesn’t mean my rights as a human should be discarded,” he wrote.

Ebron is serving a 30 year sentence for a murder he committed during an armed robbery in 2005 when he was 20 years old. 

He is one of several Red Onion inmates who have spoken with the media or prison reform advocates over the past year, sharing stories of mistreatment and poor living conditions. Allegations range from excessive force and prolonged isolation to delayed medical care. Accusations of racism and religious discrimination have also surfaced.

Last fall, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) confirmed that at least six inmates burned themselves — though advocates claim that number is higher. Some inmates and advocates say the burns were acts of protest, desperation, or attempts to secure transfers to other facilities. 

Speaking at a December 2024 meeting of the state legislature’s Public Safety Committee, VADOC Director Chad Dotson dismissed the idea that self-harm was a form of protest. 

“There’s no evidence whatsoever that there was any kind of a plot or a protest,” Dotson said. “All the inmates involved said they did it because they wanted to get away from Red Onion. Two of these have a history of self-harm.”

Red Onion inmate Ekong Eshiet, who is serving time for a 2018 malicious wounding charge, said in an audio recording by Prison Radio — a group that amplifies the voices of incarcerated people — that he was among those who set themselves on fire.

He hoped the act would force a transfer out of the facility and said he had also protested his treatment through a hunger strike. Eshiet has described discrimination from officers.

Eshiet also described his situation as being “in fear for my life.”

In a separate message to The Mercury sent via JPay, an email service for incarcerated people, he raised concerns about continued access to email and the potential for retaliation against those speaking out amid the growing scrutiny on the prison. 

An investigation into Red Onion by the state’s new corrections ombudsman is pending, while an internal review is also underway at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County, where a fire broke out during an outbreak last month. However state reports have already identified one issue that may be contributing to problems across Virginia’s prison system: staffing shortages. 

‘Critically and dangerously understaffed’

A November 2024 report to state lawmakers confirmed that staffing levels in Virginia’s correctional facilities remain dangerously low, with “very few” educational programs operating and some facilities unable to provide the legally-required out-of-cell time for inmates. The consulting firm CGL concluded that many of the VADOC’s facilities are “critically and dangerously understaffed.”

While Dotson said that Red Onion specifically had a staff vacancy rate of 9% in late December, the November report from CGL indicated widespread staffing issues in VADOC. 

“This lack of staff impacts every aspect of facility operations and results in facilities that are unsafe,” the report stated. 

While Virginia doesn’t technically use the term “solitary confinement,” it has what state code refers to as “restorative housing.” This form of Isolation is intended for inmates who pose a threat to themselves or others, but advocates have long raised concerns about its prolonged use. 

A 2023 state law requires that inmates in restrictive housing receive four hours per day out of their cells — something that, according to the report, is not always happening. Without identifying the facility, the report noted: “Effectively, at one site visited, nearly the entire population had been in Restricted Housing status for an extended period of time at the time of our site visit.”

At Red Onion, the “Step Down Program” is designed to help inmates transition out of restrictive housing. According to Dotson, more than 120 people were enrolled in the program by the end of last year, and over 300 have completed it in the past six years. 

“I’m giving you a way to get away from Red Onion — behave,” Dotson said during a presentation at the December committee meeting. 

However, a class action lawsuit filed by the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that despite the program’s stated purpose, inmates are still being confined longer “than is justified.” 

Current and formerly incarcerated individuals have told The Mercury that lockdowns are a frequent occurrence in Virginia prisons — sometimes triggered by fights for security reasons, other times seemingly used as a method of population control when staffing is low. 

During a late January phone call with The Mercury, Kevin Rashid Johnson appeared to experience one firsthand. As he spoke, sirens blared in the background, signaling the start of a lockdown he said before the call ended.  

Johnson, who previously led a hunger strike at Red Onion, is now incarcerated at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Oakwood and has been in several facilities around Virginia amid his life sentence for murder. He was one of the first to alert reporters and activists about the men who burned themselves last year and has been vocal in his dissatisfaction with Dotson’s response. 

“This man goes in the media, ‘Oh, it’s just (inmates) being manipulative,’” Johnson paraphrased. “Who the hell is going to set themselves on fire trying to be manipulative? That goes to one of the most primal fears in man — fire.”

Without naming Johnson or specific advocates, Dotson dismissed their pushback when confirming the burnings, calling them “bad-faith efforts to try to score cheap political points by advocacy groups.” 

Johnson, however, urges people to consider what drives someone to harm themselves in the first place. A Black man incarcerated in Southwest Virginia, Johnson says his time in prison has been marked by racism from a system largely staffed by white officers. 

With a formal investigation into Red Onion on the horizon, Johnson remains skeptical of what, if anything, will change. 

Corrections Ombudsman Andrea Sapone stepped into her role last September, and by December she was already hearing from members of the legislature’s Corrections Oversight and Public Safety committees, as well as members of the public advocating for their incarcerated loved ones. In response, she announced plans to streamline the complaint process for future investigations and plans to launch an inquiry into Red Onion. As of late February, her office has filled four of the five positions needed to carry that investigation.

However, Johnson sees an inherent conflict of interest in the process. Since Sapone works for the state, he believes an independent third party should handle the  investigation. 

Others, meanwhile, see Sapone’s position — created through legislation — as a step toward meaningful oversight and accountability in the prison system. 

A crowd gathers near Virginia’s Capitol on Jan. 8, 2024 for a rally about allegations of abuse stemming from some Virginia prisons. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)

‘High rehabilitative needs’

Flames appear to have quite literally ignited at a juvenile facility in Virginia.

Transcripts from a 911 call obtained by The Richmond Times-Dispatch detail a chaotic scene on Feb. 9 at Bon Air Correctional Center, where a “jailbreak of sorts” unfolded. A group of minors gained control of their housing unit and started a fire, while the sole guard on duty barricaded herself in her office to call for backup. State police responded with pepperball guns to regain control of the situation.

An internal investigation is underway, and “charges are pending,” according to  Department of Juvenile Justice spokeswoman Melodie Martin. She noted that many youth housed at Bon Air have committed violent crimes. 

“This is a very challenging population with high rehabilitative needs. Occasionally, some of the behavior exhibited in the community repeats itself in the facility,” Martin said in an email. “This is to be expected through the therapeutic process, and we support and thank the dedicated staff who invest in this high need population.”

But advocates argue that incidents like the one on Feb. 9 might also stem from persistent concerns about living and working conditions that they have warned about for years. 

Martin declined to disclose specific staffing numbers but said vacancies at Bon Air dropped by 39% between January and June of last year. She added that the Feb. 9 call for assistance was “not based on staffing,” but rather the department’s protocol prohibiting the use of “chemical agents or other law enforcement tools” on facility residents — leaving state police to deploy pepperball guns instead. 

But, much like VADOC, allegations have surfaced that low staffing levels may contribute to unsafe conditions for both employees and residents, as well as reduced access to rehabilitative programming. 

Staff exit surveys obtained by the Legal Aid Justice Center and advocacy group Rise For Youth reveal mounting frustrations among former employees. 

“Y’all ask for too much being that we’re always on single coverage,” one survey from Feb. 22, 2024, read. “(I am) tired of getting drafted everyday.”

Another former employee expressed concern about how staffing shortages impact the youth at Bon Air. 

“Residents on the existing side of campus are constantly locked down due to staff shortage which is completely inhumane. If my child were locked up at this facility, as a parent, I would be extremely upset about the dynamic,” a respondent wrote in a survey dated March 11, 2024.

They added that staff are “overworked and underpaid” and that the staffing crisis poses a direct security risk. 

Interviews conducted by the Legal Aid Justice Center with some Bon Air inmates revealed that school has not always been available to them and many feel they are frequently in a state of “lockdown.” 

Both staff and incarcerated youth “are hurting,” said Valeria Slater, director of Rise For Youth. She wasn’t surprised by the February outbreak of violence among some. 

“If you are not providing all that’s necessary for these young people to truly be successful, then there is going to be deterioration — it’s a natural consequence,” she said “So when the fire broke out, I mean, how was it not anticipated that eventually it would boil over?”

For former Department of Juvenile Justice Director Andrew Block, the situation is troubling.

“My heart goes out to the staff and kids who I’m sure are incredibly stressed and scared and exhausted,” he said.

Del. Rae Cousins, D-Richmond, has been gathering feedback from families of incarcerated individuals in both adult and juvenile facilities since taking office last year. When it comes to the Department of Juvenile Justice, she said the response from officials does not seem to align with the concerns raised by families or the documented complaints from former staff. 

“It’s sort of like two different accounts,” Cousins said, adding that she wants to get to the bottom of the discrepancies. 

Both Cousins and Block believe the Commission on Youth could play a role in addressing these issues, whether through focused hearings or a formal study to explore legislative or departmental actions.

“I am gathering information from advocates and plan to speak with the commission members in the next month or so,” Cousins said. 

Potential solutions so far

While targeted reforms for facilities like Red Onion and Bon Air may be on the horizon, broader legislative efforts to improve conditions in Virginia’s correctional system are also underway.

Sen. Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico, and Del. Karen Keys-Gamarra, D-Fairfax, sponsored measures aimed at reforming how facilities handle restrictive or solitary housing. The legislation requires that before an individual is placed in a restrictive setting, they must first be considered for a less-severe alternative. If isolation is deemed necessary, they must undergo both physical and mental evaluations. 

Del. Holly Seibold, D-Fairfax, a co-patron on the bill, voiced concerns that restrictive housing often perpetuates itself — trapping people in a cycle where declining mental health makes it even harder for them to adjust their behavior and transition out of isolation.

During a visit to Red Onion and Wallens Ridge facilities last summer, Seibold was “shocked” by the numbers of people held in solitary conditions. While state law mandates that such incarcerated individuals receive time outside their cells, she was troubled by the way the policy was being applied.

“They were technically outside, but in cage-like structures,” Seibold said. “That was really disturbing. Yes, they’re outside, but they’re still isolated in a cage. So to me, that’s still a continuation of solitary.”

The current law requiring out-of-cell time was signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2023. Now, the new bill aimed at expanding solitary reforms awaits his decision.

If signed, advocates say, the law would impact both youth and adult correctional facilities. 

“It says ‘persons in correctional center centers’ — that means Bon Air counts,” Slater said. 

Another measure from Bagby, which passed with bipartisan support, seeks to prohibit the shackling of youth during court proceedings. Under current law, juveniles can be restrained in court regardless of their behavior or the nature of their offense — a practice that several states have already outlawed.

As young people first enter the criminal justice system, some advocates argue that keeping them out of incarceration altogether could reduce the likelihood of future offenses.

Tom Woods, an associate with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, believes Virginia could reinstate criminal justice reforms he helped shape more than a decade ago. 

A decade ago, then-Department of Juvenile Justice Director Andrew Block consulted with Woods to reform how long certain offenders were confined in correctional facilities, diverting some to probation programs that allowed them to remain with their families. 

The goal, they explained, was twofold: to prevent unnecessary incarceration and to create a more manageable staff-to-resident ratio in facilities. 

“Every day and every hour” in juvenile facilities needs to be directed towards rehabilitation and preparing those in custody to leave, Woods said. 

Since then, leadership changes have brought policy shifts, moving away from those reforms. But Woods argues that reinstating them could not only improve outcomes for youth but also help ease Bon Air’s staffing struggles.

“It takes a certain kind of person and time to get the right people in the right positions,” Woods said. “If you’re already feeling the pressure in terms of the population as it is, you need to look for ways to reduce that pressure quickly.”

By Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury

COME ON VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS STOP GIVING GROUND TO REPUBLICANS ON ISSUES OF PRISON REFORM, LAW AND JUSTICE WHEN THEY HAVE SHOWN IN THE AGE OF TRUMP TO BE LAWLESS, PHONY, FRAUDULENT AND SABOTEURS OF "PUBLIC SAFETY" By William Thorpe

Pictures are taken from the internet and are used for illustrative purposes only"

Think about this, under the Republican Administration of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and his rank and file Republican foot soldiers, Virginia pretty much leads the Nation in Prison Official savagery. From attacking the Virginia prisoner with civil rights era like dogs, to creating conditions that in its protest, prisoners are reduced to setting themselves on fire, Yup a la, the protest self-immolation of Buddhist monks, of another savage condition, the Vietnam war, which come to think of it was another Republican enterprise, so what we have is a Republican Government and Administration run amuck, self-realizing itself by brutalizing its prisoners, citizens no less. The administration of law and justice in the Commonwealth of Virginia has been and is a thinly veiled incorrigible undertaking, in pursuit of, what the traitor, the once president of Virginia's pernicious secessionist delusions, Jefferson Davis articulated with his April 12,1860 ".....[S]tamped from the beginning" speech, where he lectured the Nation with, "inequality of the white and black races "was "stamped from the beginning", and we see it's continuum in the selective application and administration of law and its process, where the deviance and criminality of the accused Black Virginian, is scapegoated and accentuated while that of the president of The United States Donald Trump is extenuated and glossed over by the Virginia Republican and Governor Glenn Youngkin. Trump didn't corrupt Republicans and the Virginia Republican, he only revealed and exposed the rot that was already there. Individually and as The People we always knew that the Virginia Republican was full of it, that their " law and order "talk was that, if it works keep doing it, Romanesque "bread and circuses" gambit, which to quote another President, Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat by the way, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you", (unquote) and regardless of which formulation one grasps, we see its application in Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Department of Corrections. Because no matter how its dressed up its animus and distracting purpose and function is evident. This work is not a contrarian labor against the accountability and responsibility terms of The Social Contract, its violation and compromise of "public safety", what this work however asserts is the simple: law and justice shouldn't become a constant euphemistic strawman for motives its proponents are craven and idealistic to state.

These Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump Republicans and their Virginian brethren are inherently, inexorably and inevitably at odds with the law of the United States Constitution despite their ad nauseam self-declaration of its defense, as such they are in every regard lawless. The Virginia prisoner as their National or American brethren occupies that compelling or fulfilling motive, which despite the seeming contradiction, considering that a formidable part of American jurisprudence, in that self-negating manner is devoted to denying prisoners standing, are the force taking the law on its word. Asking that it fulfills its intention, it ablates its impurities, its distortions, as the 1871 Virginia Supreme Court in RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 Va.790 and I quote, "The Bill of Rights is a declaration of general principles to govern a society of freemen, and not of convicted felons", exposes. With the prisoner as with all dehumanized facts of The Social Contract do we see the struggle that its terms or its Constitutionalized aspirations are realized, in otherwards the civilizing of humanness.

In their scheming and quest for political supremacy and dictatorship, The Virginia Republican legatee, of the Jefferson Davis white-supremacist depravity, has effectuated Lyndon Johnson's "if you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,...." insight, with the scapegoating and exploitation of the human propensity for deviance and criminality, a most basic human condition by racializing it, making it a Black People thing, as electoral means, an insidious medium of securing a majority White People vote. In other words, instead of doing the responsible, and in the practical interest of The Social Contract, repudiation of, no matter how intoxicating the prospect of exploiting the voters ignorance and delusions, enlightening the voter, the Virginia Republican politician instead chooses to exploit, by reanimating the stench of RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 Va.790 and its on this ground, on this reactionary self-defeatist, cutting of the nose to spite the face politics and its Sisyphean short term gain, that forever the Virginia Democrat has cowered and surrendered the activity of Social Contract development, it's advancement and integrity which an accountable application of law and justice is reform of The Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison system. Now as I've explained, despite the fact the Prisoner, the Virginia prisoner is confronted with reactionary anti-reform headwinds, the recognition and actual substantive assertion of The Social Contract is realized due to the activity of the prisoner. If the Virginia Democrat hasn't been so demonstrably craven and to a degree subject to the rank and fetid allure of the sirenic distortions and corruption of the Jefferson Davis supremacist delusions afflicting the Virginia Republican, prison reform in Virginia wouldn't be perverted into a liability but a compelling necessity. So what have we seen as effects of the idealistic sophistry of the Virginia Supreme Courts 1871 ruling in RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH? Its relative comprehensive denunciation, stated in Supreme Court of The United States rulings found in JOHNSON v. CALIFORNIA 543 U.S.499 [dissent Thomas and Scalia], SHAW v. MURPHY 532 U.S.223, LEWIS v. CASEY 518 U.S.343, JONES v .N.C.PRISONERS' LABOR UNION INC.433 U.S.119, MEACHUM v. FANO 427 U.S.215 [dissent Stevens] and Virginia has cited RUFFIN no less than 15 times, as recently as 2024 in MARLOWE v. Sw. VA. Reg 'L Jail Auth. 81 VA. App. 415. The RUFFIN ruling has also caused these works, THE PUZZLES OF PRISONERS AND RIGHTS: AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF FRANK JOHNSON, 71 ALA.L.REV.665 then ALSO (UN)CONSTITUTIONAL PUNISHMENT: EIGHT AMENDMENT SILOS, PENOLOGICAL PURPOSES, AND PEOPLES "RUIN" 129 YALE L.J.F.365 both works by JUDITH RESNIK, then SLAVERY AS PUNISHMENT: ORIGINAL PUBLIC MEANING, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, AND THE NEGLECTED CLAUSE IN THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT 51 ARIZ.L.REV.982 by SCOTT W. HOWE, then RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS PUNISHMENT, 111 CALIF.L.REV.1305 by KATE WEISBUD and last but not least RIGHTS WITHOUT REMEDY: THE MYTH OF STATE COURTS ACCESSIBILITY AFTER THE PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT 30 CARDOZO L. REV.645 by ALISON BRILL. The point all of this makes is the Virginia Democrat and all honest and practical people shouldn't cower from aggressively stating and defending the work of prison reform.

By William Thorpe

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THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS A GANG, REFUSING TO COMPLY WITH LAW WHILE USING LAW TO DO ILLEGAL, LAWLESS AND REPREHENSIBLE DEEDS By William Thorpe

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The Virginia Department of Corrections, in the administration, management and operation of Virginia prisons and the many forms of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, acts and speaks through its many departmental Policies and Operating Procedures under the statutory authority and provisions of Virginia Code Section 53.1.Titled: PRISONS AND OTHER METHODS OF CORRECTIONS. The Law has 15 Chapters, starting with ADMINISTRATION GENERALLY and concluding with CORRECTIONS PRIVATE MANAGEMENT ACT or better known as MAKE MONEY OFF LOCKING PEOPLE UP. Now I'm stating all of this to show that The Virginia Department of Corrections is in fact a creation of Law as such is subordinate to the desires, intentions and will of The People of Virginia as expressed by their voting exercise. In otherwords, the politicians voted in who in turn express those desires, intentions and will. Secondly, law requires an operative or accountability and process which inherently is conditionally transparent. Thirdly all of what I've said requires the human actor in other words, the people the Virginia voter elects for the purpose of objectifying their desires, intentions are the ones then tasked with ensuring the accountability of law, its process and conditional transparency. So when for example the Virginia prison official is being their corrupt professional self, we first look to why the elected politician is allowing and permitting it and once we understand that its because the elected politician isn't fulfilling and serving in the role of and doing their tasked oversight and accountability function, then it turns to the people to quickly vote the offending politicians out and replace them with those responsible enough, mature enough and honest enough to follow the desires, intentions and will of the people. This work isn't intended to instruct and lecture anyone, instead what I'm showing is no ones hands are clean, or innocent, yes there is always complicity regardless of reason, which considering the fact we are all human runs the gamut, but what this work unequivocally declares is, if Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Department of Corrections is lawful, which I've shown is in fact that, a lawful construct, then as The People of Virginia, we cannot tolerate and have that fly in the ointment of the Virginia prison official being reprehensible under the cover of that lawfulness, thereby making a mockery of that most basic of humanness, the intelligence. For too long, Virginia politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike have conveniently and simply blamed, which in fact is scapegoat the Virginian prisoner at the expense of the basic or functional commonsense required in all other facets and aspects of the daily existence of the Virginian voter because the voter has acted as if those politicians knew better or understood better or were better equipped to speculate on matters and issues of "justice" in a contemporary and modern society as the Commonwealth of Virginia. So when tired, stale and decrepit speculative ideas of "justice" and human behavior were dredged up, repackaged and imposed on society, people responded as if the graphically naked emperor had on clothes. I haven't wasted the readers time and energy with another voluminous recitation of the Virginia prison official's barbarity, savagery and reprehensible deeds, because court records, law books filling shelves of Virginia's law schools do that, all the voter has to do is read.

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

Unlikely allies unite for probation reform, but Youngkin has final say By Charlotte Rene Woods

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Virginia’s criminal justice future is shaking up the status quo. In a departure from tradition, a probation reform bill is uniting unlikely allies across party lines.

Typically, criminal justice reform in Virginia is championed by Democrats with little Republican backing. However, this year, Del. Wren Williams, R-Patrick, has captured national attention by teaming up with Del. Katrina Callsen, D-Albemarle, on an ambitious probation overhaul. 

In the Senate, Sen. Christie New Craig, R-Virginia Beach, advanced a version of the bill.

If enacted, the legislation would allow formerly incarcerated individuals to earn credits towards reductions in their probation terms by achieving key milestones that demonstrate their rehabilitation. These include securing employment for at least 30 hours a week, earning vocational certifications, participating in mental health or substance use treatment programs, and obtaining stable housing and health insurance coverage. 

The measure, bolstered by Reform Alliance — a national criminal justice organization founded by rappers Jay Z, Meek Mill and others — is now headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk. It also has the backing of the conservative-leaning group Americans For Prosperity, along with several Virginia-based criminal justice organizations such as Nolef Turns and The Humanization Project. 

Advocates emphasize that the reform could significantly reduce recidivism — the cycle of reoffending that leads many back behind bars.

Despite Youngkin’s previous veto of a version of the bill carried by Callsen last year, reform supporters are optimistic. They point to the governor’s own initiatives aimed at reducing recidivism by supporting formerly incarcerated individuals.

Notably, just months after rejecting Callsen’s proposal last year, Youngkin issued an executive order directing state agencies to share data and coordinate efforts to help individuals connect to vital resources during their transition from incarceration to freedom. 

Reform Alliance policy manager Shawn Weneta said the organization is “excited” to see that the bills advanced with “bipartisan support both within the General Assembly and within the advocacy community.”

“Hopefully (Youngkin) will sign this into law,” Weneta said. 

Williams, who has served on the House Courts of Justice Committee with Callsen, was motivated to spearhead the legislation this year after observing a similar law enacted in Florida and recalling how President Donald Trump signed congressional prison reforms during his first term. 

Williams stated that the bipartisan drive for probation reform is “recognition that the punitive approach has not worked.” He added, “By prioritizing rehabilitation, Virginia is building a more effective, efficient criminal justice system that benefits individuals, communities, and taxpayers alike.” 

He emphasized that reducing probation can help formerly incarcerated individuals “rebuild their lives out of the American Dream” and contribute to creating safer communities for all. 

While Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears did not comment directly on the legislation, she expressed a shared ethos behind the reform. 

During a Feb. 12 segment on The John Fredericks Show, Earle-Sears explained that  “we want to do as much as possible to ensure that we don’t spend the money twice.”

She was discussing broader access to educational and vocational opportunities for incarcerated individuals, aiming to help with employment and housing once their sentences are completed. 

“If we can give them incentives then we can get them engaged, get them an education… Then if you have a job of course there’s something about work that dignifies the soul,” she said. “I’m all for lifting up that soul.”

Earle-Sears, who previously spent time in prison ministry before her election to statewide office, shared how such work offered a sense of l hope to people during times when it may be scarce. 

She also spoke about providing housing to former inmates could reduce recidivism, helping individuals get back on their feet. 

“You’re not gonna go steal and create mayhem to pay for shelter,” she remarked.

During the conversation, Fredricks also asked her specifically about the legislation, expressing that he is “in favor of” it.  While she did not directly state her support, she pointed out the strong bipartisan support it received, meaning her tie-breaking vote wasn’t necessary. 

Should Youngkin choose to not sign Williams’ and New Craig’s bill, the lawmakers could try again next year, with a different executive branch in place. 

As Earle-Sears is running for governor, she could potentially have more opportunities to weigh in on a future version of the proposal.

By 

Charlotte Rene Woods

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WE CALL ON JOANNA C. SCHWARTZ, MICHELLE ALEXANDER, KIMBERLE WILLIAMS CRENSHAW, MICHAEL ERIC DYSON AND BAILEY D. BARNES, TO DO A PRIMER ON CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE DOCUMENTING THIS PERIOD OF OUR HISTORY IN A NATIONAL ZOOM FORUM OPEN TO ALL By William Thorpe

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Besides the foundational and historically anticipated Black American critique of The Nation viz The United States, Black People as evidenced by the sophistication of Frederick Douglas's Fourth of July analysis are the motive force of The Nations aspirations compelling and demanding its maturation and fruition. As Bailey D. Barnes, concisely illustrated in his 2024 work, THE OBVIOUS VIOLATION EXCEPTION TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY, 99 WASH. L. REV. 725, he tells us under the heading, BRIEF HISTORY OF SECTION 1983 AND QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, "Before the civil war, federal enforcement of civil rights was minimal. After the American Revolution, the purpose of law was to spur economic growth, not to shelter citizens from State abuse. The Federal Government often violated rights rather than protected them.....". Then in, William Enerson's 2004 work, MARBURY V. MADISON, DEMOCRACY, AND THE RULE OF LAW, 71 TENN. L. REV. 217, we find an illuminating anticipatory exposé of this current period of our history, where he writes in the opening text,...."[T]hat Marbury was actually about something larger.The case was about maintaining a balance between the following two concepts: democracy, the idea expressed by Lincoln in the Gettysburg address about government " of the people,by the people [and] for the people" and the rule of law, the idea expressed by John Adams in the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 that ours is "a Government of Laws and not of men".(unquote) Then Nelson continues with this,which to me correctly encapsulates this specific period of our National history and this current struggle with this grouping of reactionaries and their antipathy towards progress, with this recitation,which is found at the 7th paragraph of his work and I excerpt....." Prior to the American Revolution few colonials imagined that social change was possible and nearly everyone assumed that life would go on essentially as it had for decades.Society was seen as a stable organism that grew and maintained itself of its own accord.It followed from this view of society that.no one in government needed to make choices about the direction that law, government, and the society ought to take. Of course, bad people might threaten the health and stability of the organism: foreign monarchs often threatened its destruction by war, and criminals and other evil people posed menaces to its peace and stability at home. The king had the duty to make the decisions needed to protect the realm from foreign threats, and his courts performed the task of doing justice to malefactors at home. But doing justice did not entail policy choice, it necessitated only the enforcement of traditional, customary values, such as property, stability, community and morality, which were embedded deeply within existing common law". What Nelson describes in the above excerpt are parameters of relations and interactions that The Constitution and Bill of Rights were intended to reform, change and improve on. With this post-civil war, considering the jurisprudential concept of "self-executing", is where we encounter, Black People as motive force compelling and demanding it's fulfillment. So at paragraph 18, Nelson tells us and I excerpt "One final inference must be drawn.We know that eighteenth-century juries mirrored the white, male landowner and taxpaying population. It follows that if jurors shared similar ideas about the substance of the law,then a body of shared ideas about law must have permeated a large segment of the population of every territory over which a court that sat with a jury had jurisdiction. Colonial government may have been able to derive policies from, and otherwise function on the basis of, those shared values". What Nelson is explaining are relationships that these ongoing current machinations by this grouping of reactionaries, neo-royalist and feudalist are intended to return us to. But as Frederick Douglas instructed in his 1852 analysis of The Fourth of July, which, Nelson at the 27th paragraph of his work, reveals its thought and I excerpt," The Revolutionary struggle and the attainment of independence also transformed American society and politics ideologically. In discarding British rule and reconstituting their government, Americans proclaimed that all law springs from popular will as codified in legislation. If the people could remake their government, it followed as the Maryland Journal declared in 1787, that the lawmaking power of the people must be "original inherent and unlimited by Human authority". A change and realignment of Social Contract terms and relationship anticipates and requires fulfillment, which is what Frederick Douglas polemicized with his 1852 Fourth of July critique, which for fulfillment requires, Policy or governmental activity and as Nelson explained in paragraph 18, which I excerpted above requires a medium exposing the inertia of the existing social terms and its suppositions. This has been the activity of Black People as a principle and value demanding a governing function of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in opposition to and in contrast with the anti-progress reaction of the "state rights "supposition. Our call to Joanna C. Schwartz, Michelle Alexander, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Michael Eric Dyson and Bailey D. Barnes is to remind us as a Nation what exactly, these building blocks of our Social Contract are. For example the illuminating examples of United States v. Curry 965 F.3d 313, Jamison v. McClendon 476 F. Supp. 3d 386, to name a few exposés and not to gloss over Prof. Schwartz's work on Monroe v. Pape 365 U.S.167 .We currently are going through the consequences of a number of factors of which ignorance is not the least, as such this call.

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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

NOW THIS IS WHATS FUNNY: SO HOW DOES ANY VIRGINIA MOTHER, TEACH HER SON OR DAUGHTER ABOUT AND RAISE THEM ON LAW AND JUSTICE, WHEN THE GOVERNOR ALONG WITH THE NATIONS PRESIDENT BREAK AND MOCK IT ? By William Thorpe

So what can Governor Glenn Youngkin say, even to the most apathetic and disinterested Virginian that will sweeten the bitterness of crass impunity, that has been the hallmark of his Republican leadership, these four years, as we approach Statewide Elections, which will have us being harangued about the law and justice terms of The Social Contract?.It is dramatically impossible for Governor Glenn Youngkin and his Republican rank and file to stand erect in front of any Virginian and dare lay claim to the rule of law when what no one can forget and ignore is Glenn Youngkin cavorting, his best Bacchanalian impression, with a 34 count felony convicted, who is now the president of The United States, conjoining with his Republican rank and file in the amplification of the deflection that the convictions from the Process of Law from a Sister State, New York were phony and whatever. It is one thing for a private citizen, to denounce whatever their fancy but, it becomes something else for an Officer of The Social Contract, as a Governor or those vying for leadership to give voice to, undermining, philistine and saboteur propositions and then expect, witnesses of the spectacle to in turn become amnesiac and maintain endorsement of whatever faith and trust they just experienced its utter destruction. The exercise of imprisonment as terms of The Social Contract, as collective will of The People, is the complete buy in, of the rule of law, as such its reform, its pursuit of self-correction and scrutiny is mandatory for a Social Contract, presuming maturity, meaning "honesty" as The Commonwealth of Virginia claims and aspires. Yet and however what these four years of Glenn Youngkin and his Republican rank and file have taught and shown, is their inability and unwillingness to simply do so. Under Governor Glenn Youngkin and his Republican rank and file we have experienced Virginia prisoners, reduced to the perdition of self-immolation. We have observed Governor Glenn Youngkin use the most ridiculous of arguments in defense of the Virginia prison official's barbarity, savagery and the subsequent impunity compromising the Law, which as Executive of the Commonwealth he's sworn to uphold defend and execute.

First of all this is what's perversely funny and tragic.The purpose of "justice", is to repair and address a wron, a harm irrespective and regardless of reason.Still, BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY defines it as: THE FAIR AND PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF LAWS and on both counts, you the reader, Governor Glenn Youngkin fails the people of Virginia.The thing is, the Glenn Youngkin's of this planet circumscribe and limit their thinking to everything that is synonymous with selfishness and its inevitably perverse and inexorably tragic consequence.Then they foist on us The People, an otherworldly and bizarre explanatory logic which we gobble up on the simple basis, that we "respect".Because without the medium of "respect", why would, we The People then gobble up what we know to be pure sophistry, crass suppositions as purportedly conceptual guides on the path of progress and our all around development, that is not only compromising, but sabotaging?. Contrary to what insidious and ignorant motives claim and advance,"wisdom"isn't innate,nor exclusive and my proof is the very existence of our human condition. For millennia humanity recreated conditions for existence, primitively, without innovations, with a tweak here and a tweak there. In other words we existed as we organically are now, eating, reproducing, being artistic and technologically creative with the caveat on sophistication and qualitative refinement, which is the point I make as proof of the material objectivity of humanities wisdom. Because the sophistication of our artistry and technology has been a recent quality, with the undeniable, as I've stated, millennia of idealistic and incremental innovations, till the explosion of what is accepted as the, Industrial Age. So collectively humanity, walked without cars, existed in homes without comforting amenities, interacted without structured and organized opposition to misanthropy and its selfishness, in other words, the delusions of "supremacy and intelligence exclusivity" hadn't assumed the distortions we now contend with. Tragically its on this basis, these distortions that Governor Glenn Youngkin and his Virginia Republican rank and file have perversely attributed.

First of all our Virginia Political leaders who profess and claim to pursue The People's best interest are not doing so. This point isn't a consideration of The Virginia Republican politician, because their, anti-People position is clearly stated and only the insidious and delusional will argue otherwise.Now Virginia's Justice Infrastructure as expressed in The Virginia Department Of Corrections and its imprisonment scheme is the highest function and value of The Commonwealth of Virginia, in otherwords it is it's quintessential accomplishment as proven by being the State's largest agency. What I'm saying is if The People of Virginia didn't consider imprisoning its members as the most VALUED social activity and most profound accomplishment of The Social Contract, it wouldn't fund it above all other governmental duties, nor would we find its terms, the locus of violations and compromises of The Commonwealth's Constitutional aspirations and Statutory authorities. In so many words, even as The Commonwealth utters declaratives of enlightenment and progress, it in the same breadth dialectically denounces itself by repudiative acts. These repudiating acts are what I've described as Virginia Politicos despite claiming to have the citizenry's interest do not. As I have also pointed out and some will say, facetiously, that the most valued social activity and most profound accomplishment of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the imprisonment of its members, along with the contemporaneous violations and compromises of its Constitutional aspirations and Statutory authorities. The question then isn't that of simply blaming the pathetic Virginia Republican politician for the propensity to cut of the nose to spite the face, or the docility and timidity of those Virginia politicians who at least mouth accountability then betray it at the altar of permissive criticism. But we present the question squarely to The People, that it's their complicity that on all accounts, what we are confronted with is violations of the fundamental and basic terms of The Social Contract in the form of The Rule of Law and its Process. Because if imprisoning members of society as function of Law, then it behooves reason, that the Virginia prison official tasked with and granted the privilege of performing the will and intent of The People of Virginia by imprisoning its members is allowed by the same People to violate its rule of law. The question isn't whether the Virginia prison official is incorrigibly professionally corrupt, but how will the citizenry communicate it to those Politicians and Legislators, who to a degree have a hint of conscientiousness, that impunity isn't a tenable term of The Social Contract?. Notwithstanding the history and ability of the Commonwealth of Virginia to devalue, denigrate and dehumanize, the person hood and life, its recent incarnation by the Virginia prison official to blatantly use "FOOD" as a weapon and tool of management, at THE KONCENTRATION KAMP RED ONION STATE PRISON is impudently absurd, for one, if statutorily the Virginia prison official is prohibited from using food punitively, then it goes to say The Virginia Department of Corrections is precluded from using it as a misnomered incentive. Naturally voices have been raised in protest in the halls of Virginia's General Assembly, albeit pro forma, unbefitting the enormity and monstrousness of the barbarity and savagery of the Virginia prison official's deeds. Despite the fact that the prison official are the primary actor, The People are responsible.

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

CAN WE DEPEND ON A VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PARTY TO PURSUE OUR BEST INTEREST OVER THE PURPOSE OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME, WHEN THEY'RE COWED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP THEIR LEADER, THE CONVICTED FELON? By William Thorpe

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First of all, of course the answer is NO and it is insulting for anyone to act as if this Republican Party has credibility, has standing, has a basis to critique anything, speak on anything especially issues and matters concerning, Law and Order, and Criminal Justice when what we get from them is craven silence, pathetic complicity and unimaginative hypocrisy over the spectacle that is the convicted felon, Donald Trump, President of The United States. Of course its another incomprehensible but simple NO. Virginia Republicans have historically exploited Virginia's Justice System, for nothing more than speculative political power considering its antecedent and The People of Virginia have behaved as that proverbial ostrich with its head stuck in the sand, ignoring the demonstrable truth that the narratives deployed by Virginia Republicans characterizing Virginia's Justice System and its imprisonment scheme have and had nothing to do with their Constitutionalized aspirations, but instead have mocked, profaned and violated it. But with the emergence of the Donald Trump spectacle, no one, not his Republican ally defenders nor his critics and detractors, meaning The People of Virginia, can dare act like Law and Order and Criminal Justice are objectively honest assertions of the terms of Virginia's Social Contract as historically presented by narratives of political opportunists in pursuits of speculative political power. Which brings us to the 2025 Session of Virginia's General Assembly, where again we encounter this unoriginal, unimaginative same old, same old gambits of law and order and criminal justice, audaciously exploited by the Virginia Republican, again claiming to be pursuing a social good, in the interest of the full and all around development and realization of the people of Virginia, but we know to be diametrically opposite at best and in the anticipatory employ of resurrecting antebellumesque delusions of monstrous proportions at worst. So once again filling the reactionary rank and file, battle orders of The Virginia Republican a, Mr. Mark J. Peake (R) and his SB 1071 a punitive proposal treating the drug offender as if trillions of dollars hasn't been redistributed applying the imprisonment scheme futilely. Again, Mr. Mark J. Peake unable to stop plying the imprisonment schemes with his SB 1080.Then Mr.Wren M.Williams (R) and his HB 1589 bill making more of a fraud what's left of Virginia's parole scheme. Then Nicholas Freitas (R) and his HB 2192 repeal of The Earned Sentence Credits incentive for prisoner good behavior law. Again another Republican, Mr.Mark L. Early, Jr. (R) acting like there hasn't been an epoch, War on Drugs, with his HB 2296.Then Mr. Scott A. Wyatt (R) with his HB 1773 acting as if he doesn't seek "grace" even as he denies it to the Virginia prisoner. Now Mr. Chris Obenshain (R) with his HB 2272 is funny it seeks to restrict access to information generated by the Virginia Parole Board, a Government entity performing a public duty using public tax payer funds and how can society maintain faith and trust in The Social Contract if its cloaked in secrecy.[see this case Mr. Obenshain "A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MUST THEREFORE PRACTICE FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS CAN RARELY BE OBTAINED BY SECRET,ONE-SIDED DETERMINATION OF FACTS DECISIVE OF RIGHTS" (JOINT ANTI-FASCIST REFUGEE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S.123)] Then Mr. Eric Phillips (R) with HB 2576 anti-Sr. bill.

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