THE PROBLEM IS WE PAY LIP SERVICE TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND WHEN WE DO PURSUE IT, WE DO IT SELECTIVELY By William Thorpe

 

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No one denies or disputes that the issue and question of the Virginia Prison Official is that of Accountability, whether is its realization and pursuit or lack and of all the issues and questions we deal with and encounter as an inherent factor of our Human Condition, Accountability should be the least as issue, because whether it is thesis or antithesis, the dynamic of its presence and existence is synonymous with the genomic blocks of our lives as an ever present quadratic. Yet as objective of the Social Contract and its terms, it is bane and a nemesis. If Justice is the "fair administration of law" and if "fair and fairness" are again, a necessary quadratic for the existence and survival of the Human Being, because it doesn't take much to realize and recognize that we'll brain ourselves out of existence were fair and fairness not material fixtures and participant in our objective socialization and relations, which euphemistically is the accountability-function of objectivity, the glue holding and maintaining that equilibrium of purpose as The People, which again is ever present in our one on one individual interactions, so its resolution then, as a "For Itself" fact stands as our mature recognition that it is a necessary development for that aspirational materialization of our Social Contract embodied existence. I want to highlight how we undermine and regardless of intent, sabotage the pursuit of accountability. Recently 60 Minutes, an Investigative Feature of CBS News canned a feature interrogating the practices and conditions at El Salvador's CECOT described Mega Prison, where The Trump Administration had exported Venezuelans. The 60 Minutes Story which despite being censored in The U.S. was publicized in Canada. The feature was a collaboration with Human Rights Watch and the work of Students at The University of California-Berkeley's Digital Lab. The significance this story has to this work is it illustrates an aspect of, accountability, that even as it purports to pursue it in one form and level, it negates it as a general principle, and that typically is characterized as hypocrisy. I BEGIN: There is nothing about El Salvador's CECOT Prison, that in principle and in relative practice isn't in existence as condition and circumstance in Virginia's Level 4, 5 and 6 Prisons and Virginia isn't out on a limb, but all State Prison Systems, including The Federal Bureau of Prisons are El Salvador's CECOT, in one form or another. I'm not contra any focus on El Salvador's CECOT and its value to the current National political speech and analysis. My vantage is simple, critique of CECOT, shouldn't exist as another typical idealistic exercise as exception when it isn't, but is a fact of the principle. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH did an exposé on Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison (Super-Max) when it opened in 1998, as it also exposed Indiana's Super-Max conditions and imprisonment circumstances. But we don't have to rely only on HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, UC-BERKELEY Students or 60 Minutes, all we have to do is, not even a hard study, but merely peruse our Law Books, chronicling what the American Prisoner has said and had to say about prison conditions and imprisonment circumstances. Yes conditions at El Salvador's CECOT are abject, but when we talk about accountability and Human Rights Standards, the critique isn't mere analysis of "worse", because analysis and its accountability-function isn't to apologize for and excuse the general principle, but, critique exist and is intended to "resolve", because there are always "reasons" to be exploited and corrupted justifications.

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

A 2025 YEAR END SHOUT OUT TO THOSE MINDS AND HEARTS WHO HAVE RESOLUTELY AND STEADFASTLY STOOD WITH US THE VIRGINIA PRISONER By William Thorpe

I Begin first with this apology, all Virginians who have the designation, Family, Loved One and Friend of an imprisoned Virginian, whether within the borders of the Commonwealth of Virginia or that special category of shipped out of state to another States Prison System, I don't know who you individually are, but collectively the solidarity and recognition this SHOUT OUT presents is also yours and with that WE ARE IN STRENGTH. The Minds and Hearts who have stood with the Virginia Prisoner in 2025 are diverse and unique as their contributed energies and resources, each according to their abilities, devoted and directed towards the realization of the simple Social Contract proposition, that the Virginia prisoner as a creation of Law as such the law in its embodiment and personification in the Virginia Prison Official who is tasked with the privilege, bestowed by the People of Virginia, their idea of imprisonment as function of their Justice Application must do their duties and be Accountable under and within the professional morality and ethics of compliance with the Law. This Shout Out, isn't the vehicle to present that analysis of the obvious dysfunction within Virginia's Social Contract and its terms that is necessitating that these unelected minds and hearts, focus of this Shout Out are doing what our elected leaders and legislators who are Constitutionally oath bound should be doing.

A 2025 SHOUT OUT TO THOSE DOING THE PEOPLES WORK OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE Stacey Thorpe of VIRGINIA PRISONS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE (vapac) is an indomitable and tireless voice in advancing that simple proposition that:the Virginia Prison Official isn't above the law, We Salute her In Strength. Kevin Jeanes of PRISON TOKS is a force of nature, relentless in his advocacy for the Virginia prisoner, We Salute him In Strength. Dawn Bryant of CCCAN is resolute in the understanding that imprisonment isn't an excuse for the Virginia Prison official to exercise sadistic urgings on the Virginia prisoner, We Salute her vigilance In Strength. Sandy Hausman of RADIO IQ has shown what journalism covering the Virginia Prison official is and means, as opposed to the propaganda shills of Virginia's Corporate Media, We Salute her In Strength. Annette Blankenship of VIRGINIA PRISONS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE (vapac) is proof that information is the great instructor and her tireless contributions have empowered a many loved ones of the Virginia prisoner with necessary perspectives,We Salute her In Strength. Kimberley Snodgrass of IAHR epitomizes the Mother of a Son imprisoned under the savage and barbarous conditions of Virginia Prisons and will not be silenced nor muted, because she understands as a Veteran that Constitutional Oath and its No One is Above Law and its Accountability, We Salute her In Strength. Karen Morrison is a Parole Advocate who articulates the truism that parole is an inherent component and aspect of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, even when certain Virginia Politicians due to the short sightedness of political opportunity have conveniently compromised and forgotten its enlightenment and civilizing function. We Salute her In Strength. Pastor Harvey Yoder of THE VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION is a tireless voice reminding us that the "Faith" our Virginia political leaders profess shouldn't be a performative, academic and theological exercise but its redemptive anticipations relative to the Virginia prisoner are practical according to their held tenets.We Salute him In Strength. Margaret Breslau of THE VIRGINIA PRISON JUSTICE NETWORK stands with the Virginia prisoner, We Salute her In Strength. 2025 IN SOLIDARITY

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

IT TAKES ALL OF US TO GET THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL TO STOP PLAYING US BECAUSE THEY CLAIM THEY DO WHAT THEY DO NOT JUST IN OUR NAME BUT FOR US By William Thorpe

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Now we all know that's a lie and no matter how many different ways, they (the Virginia Prison Official) say it or how many fonts they say it with in their "Mission Statement", We, The People (of course including the Prisoner, especially the prisoner) are under no sets of delusions, that the only motive force animating them, the Virginia Prison Official, is the expected paycheck and the satisfaction of their depraved and demented psychotic and sadistic stirrings and the comedy of this, is its crass unoriginality. I BEGIN: Let me pose this question, what is the average and typical experience of any Virginian visiting an imprisoned loved one or friend, in Virginia's Prisons'? The descriptive begins with: Tension, Anxiety then Frustration right and its morph into Exasperation, then Indignation from the thinly concealed Disrespect emanating from the prison official, plateauing with you the visitor's ire at the unwarranted and uncalled for Injustice of the entire experience, all because you the visitor had the temerity, the gall, right to, exercise your NATURAL RIGHT, along with your APPROXIMATE RIGHTS AND LEGAL TERMS OF VIRGINIA'S SOCIAL CONTRACT, by daring to visit your imprisoned loved one and its the fact of the INJUSTICE, that I want to speak a bit to. Injustice naturally is apposite to Justice, with Justice as a contextual derivative of terms of The Social Contract, which exist as construct, mechanism, medium and Terms, because of All of The People (including the Prison Official). So that indignation of the visitor to the Virginia prison, is a correct, normal, natural and healthy response and reaction to the clear and obvious corruption in its context of violations, compromises and denigrations of firstly, the visitor's Natural Right and secondly, the visitor's rights under the approximate legality of the Social Contract and this encapsulates that lack of accountability antagonism, which the Virginia prison official occupies as terms of existence with The People (including themselves in its form as a contradiction of their professional behavior).What all of this translates into, which isn't some novel emergence, but the obvious matter of fact, that there isn't some sort of pre-existeing, primordial or archetypal construct, but the NATURAL RIGHT of the Virginia Visitor exist in itself, without suppositionary zeal, not as something other but as ALL OF THE PEOPLE and when the Virginia prison official expresses disdain at their presence as Visitor, that is the beginning and inception of impunity and its above-the-lawism. The Virginia prison official by exhibiting a hostile and viscerally belligerent conduct as a professional state with the visitor (which is a corrupted dynamic of the social contract) is imposing, because of their existence as a constituted sovereign element of the Commonwealth, an undemocratic and tyrannical fact on what is Virginia's Due Process of Law. In other words, contrary to the evidenced assumption by the prison official's conduct and professional behavior, that the animus is a latent and unstated extra-judicial disposition due to the existence of the Virginia prisoner and towards the imprisoned Virginian, as prisoner, the only subject of their impunity and its casualty is the entire construct and formulation of The Social Contract and the Rule of Law. With this understanding and the accompanying responsibility, The Virginian is equally responsible for their experience and the tolerated impunity of the Virginia prison official, silence is complicity.

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

WERE THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA MADE AWARE THAT A VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL THREATENED A MASS SHOOTING AT A VIRGINIA PRISON AND OTHER INCIDENTS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CHADWICK DOTSON DIRECTOR OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS: A WRAP UP OF 2025.

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I BEGIN: Nancy Crockett, a Prison Official employed by the Virginia Department of Corrections filed a Civil Suit, CROCKETT v. VIRGINIA, 2025 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 183476 where she claimed, Gender Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Retaliation against a number of her colleagues. She claimed this in her suit about, a Virginia Prison Official, colleague of hers, at AUGUSTA CORRECTIONAL CENTER, Officer Watkins, and was the basis of her civil suit "......[S]hortly thereafter, another superior officer called to inform Officer Watkins that he had been drafted to work overtime hours, triggering another outburst of anger and "comments about killing everyone, including Ms. Crockett, once again". Crockett was ultimately confined in Master Control with Officer Watkins for nine hours. During that time, Officer Watkins had access to two AR-15's and 12 Gauge Shotguns, as well as 60 rounds of ammunition Crockett, on the other hand, had no protection while officer Watkins " threatened to kill her and every other officer there "stating that he " control[led], who gets in and out of this prison" and that he "decide[d] who lives and dies in this prison". On the few occasions she was able to contact others, Crockett reported these events to various superior officers, all of whom brushed off the reports. (noting that the officers said it was " just Watkins").....[excerpted from Ms. Crockett's complaint]. The issue is this in our contemporary society, media has informed and made the People aware of similar circumstances with much less alarming claims than Ms. Crockett's, so why didn't Virginia's Corporate Media do its job?

We have the revelation and hard fought for exposure of the Roman Catholic Churchs', monstrous sexual crimes of pedophilia as fact and evidence, of the institutionalization of sexual criminality. So in that regard, Chadwick Dotson's Virginia Department of Corrections, isn't an outlier. Still, it doesn't minimize nor excuse the fact that imprisoned, (focus of this) women in Virginia suffer a systemic and what can only be described as, the institutionalization of Rape and Sexual Assault as a integral and comprehensive fact of their experienced Virginia prison circumstance and condition, which by the way wasn't intended to be the imprisonment condition, The People of Virginia anticipated for their Daughters, Mothers, Wives and in general, the Virginia Woman and Female and that is the impunity of the professional behavior of the Chadwick Dotson Directorate. These cases ROE v. TUCKER 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 3265, RODRIGUEZ v. MOUBRAY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 202444, ANSELME v. GRIFFIN 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 268538 are emblematic of sexual crimes against The Imprisoned Virginia Woman under the leadership of Chadwick Dotson, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections. Again our Virginia Corporate media fails us, because rarely if ever and never are the People of the Commonwealth given an accounting of the monstrous failings of the Virginia prison official. Assaulting and savaging the Virginia prisoner, whether male, female or in between is the unwritten and hell in some spasms of delusion, the stated policy, practices and philosophy of the Virginia prison official, that is if savagery and barbarism can lay claim to philosophy besides sadistic stooge font of the Comte Marquis de Sade. The tenure of Chadwick Dotson as Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections and his administrative culture, has reminded us that when we assume that okay corruption, malfeasance, impunity, gratuitous violence, misanthropy, petty-tyranny and its fascist presumptions are incapable of anymore extremism, then we are instructed into another character of malevolence and its aspect of above-the-lawism, which is, exploitation of behavior. What this means is, simply this, the malevolence of above-the-lawism is what it causes its subjects and victims to do, how it ask of them to behave, in other words, the exploitation of behavior. This behavioral exploitation, is the perversion of psychology, into a self-destructive motive that in turn assumes a "strawmanesque" demented and insidious affirmation of the above-the-lawism dynamic, by presenting itself to the idealistic and uncritical "thought" observer as causality. We clearly saw this, when imprisoned Virginians in the care of Chadwick Dotson had no recourse but that of the desperate speech of self-immolation, to compel attention to the imprisonment conditions and circumstances created by the retrograde "thought" and pined for antebellumlesque world view of the Virginia prison official. We saw how all of this played out, when Chadwick Dotson and his Governor Glenn Youngkin overlord and their Republican Party of Virginia support infrastructure scrambled to respond to the in plain view fact, that Virginia prisoners were setting themselves on fire as protest, with pure unbridled corruption, which besides the academic, which came first, chicken or the egg, corruption, impunity and above-the-lawism are handmaiden constant. I need not cite examples from the chronicled archives of Virginia prison official savagery, barbarism and brutality, save to say this. Again our Virginia Corporate Media have simply sold us out by not simply informing and making the People of Virginia aware of the without qualifications ahumanistic deeds committed and done in their name by the Virginia prison official to the imprisoned Virginian.

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

WHY GOVERNOR-ELECT ABIGAIL SPANBERGER'S WIN MATTERS FOR HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By William Thorpe

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It isn't because of her historical presence which no one can emphasize it more than, she herself, her very exclamatory existence as Governor-Elect of The Commonwealth of Virginia does. Nor is it because as Governor she has authority to validate "speech", because in her former position she also had authority to validate speech and what I mean by "speech", is what it means to frame, honestly and practically what we as the people know, want and understand as correct and just adjudicative, policy-making. What makes Abigail Spanberger's expected Governorship significant, specifically for the focus of this work, is the inexorable course, considering the political context, (Nationally and State), necessity of defining, that perfection of unity of the People, what actually is governance and its reaffirmation of accountability, that of holding the Virginia Prison Official, which as Executive of The Commonwealth she is responsible and accountable for their professional behavior. To what extent Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger, in her former position as House Member of The United States, was aware of the unmitigated disaster that is the Virginia prison system and the incorrigible visceral animus of the Virginia prison official towards accountability, is besides the point and isn't the issue. But the significance of her presence and emergence, as Executive of The Commonwealth of Virginia is not even about it's historical nature, but its about the moment, the contextual political moment, Nationally and State. Notwithstanding the fact, that The Commonwealth, despite Pennsylvania's claim to being The Keystone, can rightfully lay claim as Cornerstone for all sorts of reasons (which are not the focus of this work), as such it fits that, it falls to The Commonwealth to course-correct that dynamic (with all its contradictions and antagonisms it set in motion Four Hundred plus years ago, again not minimizing the real cost of such contradictions and antagonisms unleashed, it was motion of the Human Condition and if the inherent force, is Enlightenment and Progress through the socialization mechanism of The Social Contract and its anticipatory, perfection of unity of The People, the practicality of governance and its accountability-function).The Political context, Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger speaks to is one that in practice hasn't comprehensively and honestly pursued realizing The Social Contract and its accountability-function and this isn't to say that this hasn't been a long time in the making and coming, there was a moment with Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676), then in 1861-1865 then the betrayal in 1877 harbinger of a Crow, then the convulsions of Brown v. Board, then the millennium Trump un-original backwardness and flailing. If as one of the ancients, Adams, instructed (and I paraphrase) that our nation, is that of law and not men, with its implicit demand that governance is primarily an accountability-function, then it would be mind-bogglingly and a malevolence of historic proportions, were Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger, after correctly recognizing and framing such recognition, that, the primary antagonism is if lip service to the accountability-function of governance is what has relatively been its state, to where the moment is again that of its public breach, to then permit and enable its continued existence as professional behavior of the Virginia prison official. What Abigail Spanberger is an inextricable unity with the work of if once upon a time there were hints of what it means to practice the accountability-function of governance, she is its potential realization.

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

YES THERE IS A VICTIM OF CRIME AND IT IS SINGULAR YET AT THE SAME TIME COLLECTIVELY US By William Thorpe

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Conventionally, implying that despite its common-social generic use, there is a multi purpose to its existence, the descriptive, VICTIM OF CRIME, conventionally means "harm" experienced and caused to, in a specific and unconditional context. Nonetheless its multi purpose implication or notwithstanding its generic meaning and word clarity, convention permits an assumption, a repurposing of the entire definition of the descriptive. The reason why this has a nitpicking entanglement of concern is because of the consequences of its convention, which then means it is being exploited for certain reasons that have divergent interest, or deliberately limit the parameters of the honesty or enlightenment of its generic meaning and word clarity. I speak first from the vantage of holding Virginia Prison Officials and The Commonwealth's Justice Infrastructures accountable for their professional behavior, which necessarily ask that I confront this part of this historical conflict between reaction and enlightenment. Yes the organized vehicle of this conflict, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, cloaks itself in the purpose or utility of resolving by the defeat of what's antithetical to enlightenment and its accountability instinct, by realizing the imbued inherence of its generic meaning and word clarity. However as soon as 'enlightenment and its accountability instinct' flexes its existence, 'reaction', rises up in its historical role of nemesis, bringing to bear all of its idealistic and intellectually liberal backwards self-interest forces, in opposition and it isn't any different within and particularly within the aspirational and enlightening terms of the generic meaning and clarity of words. So how many Virginians recall, what became of the picturesque town of SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA its residents and the relationship with THE OLIN CORPORATION ? Jane Mayer in her book DARK MONEY, lays out from pages 96-99, a classic example of, a repurposing, perversion and distortion of generic meaning and word clarity, with accounts of what happened there. Because in any other instance, meaning were the incidents of SALTVILLE happening to a single person or individual, the entire town of Saltville, Virginia would be wrapped up in the yellow tape of a crime scene and given the descriptive, VICTIM OF CRIME, because that was exactly what happened, but because the descriptive, victim of crime, has been repurposed, to serve another function besides the clear meaning of its words, SALTVILLE and its people, not only suffered the harm of a crime, but were denied and deprived of the process that accompanies the descriptive, victim of crime.

Why there has to be a reclamation of the generic meaning and word clarity of the descriptive, "victim of crime", is simple. It is integral, to the accountability-function of governance as embodied by the Virginia Prison Official, because as it is currently understood under its conventional utility, it is nothing less than an insidious mechanism of exploitation, by the Commonwealth's reactionary forces, primarily, Corporations and Industry and secondarily, the Virginia Prison Official and the Justice Infrastructure, because lest we forget, a justice infrastructure which the prison official is a hired hand "enforcer", is nothing more than a means of controlling and keeping people subservient to the labor imperatives and demands of a political-economy. Let me digress, for those who are having a time at grasping that a justice infrastructure and its "law and order" whatever, 'is nothing more than a means of controlling and keeping people subservient to the labor imperatives and demands of a political-economy' and present this as basic explanation. The business of the human being is simply, that of attaining and obtaining necessities and enablers of survival and existence, as soon as there is communion, association or interaction with another, that business is then "socialized", it then becomes organized and a political-economy requiring the convention of a Social Contract flows forth, just as any mathematical expectation. So if it goes to say, that, just as an Ant Colony, will protect its Queen at all cost, so is the Organized-Violence or Justice Infrastructure and its prison official hired-hand "enforcer" of a political-economy and its Social Contract, tasked with the primary function of maintaining cohesion or "law and order" for that one and only business, which is, the production and acquisition of the necessities and enablers for human existence and survival. Existence of Human caused harm, Injustices, violations, crimes in all their various forms and synonyms to fellow Human are equally a denominator of a political-economy's socialization and its Social Contract and not only is it to be expected but are par course of our human condition. As such if "Harm" and all its synonymous hordes are simply accepted, on their terms and due to its par course nature with the Social Contract and is tolerated, then that human business of attaining and obtaining necessities and enablers of survival and existence will naturally and consequently became corrupted and dysfunctional and its firstly under this dysfunctional recognition, that without responding to "harm" and its victim of crime creation, that the logic for and establishment of process for repair of harm caused to and experienced by the victim of crime, becomes a fundamental part of the social contract on which that "faith and trust" in its equity is that glue binding the people, notwithstanding the existence of its Organized-Violence. So any perversion, distortion and manipulation of the generic meaning and word clarity of what is a victim of crime naturally becomes part of the harm caused and if repairing harm to the human member or as is specific and particular to this work, the Virginian member of The Commonwealth's Social Contract, is a basic function and core service of governance, meaning Accountability, holding the Virginia Public Official as embodied in the prison official accountable, then it's repurposing of the generic meaning and word clarity of the descriptive, victim of crime, is pursuing something other than that contractual "faith and trust" glue, binding The People to that aspirational commonality and its accountability-function.

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