IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, WHO IS THAT LAST CLUELESS VIRGINIAN THAT IT IS ABJECTLY CORRUPT? By William Thorpe

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

Before I get all into this work, let me begin with, Virginia Department of Corrections Director Chadwick Dotson recently implied that criticism against the department was by advocates, e.t.c. In other words it was another unoriginal and unimaginative play on that antebellumnesque apology that Northern Yankee agitators were the ones telling and filling the heads of enslaved Black People that their life circumstance were crimes against nature. Well, you the reader check this out, Marie Knoskie, a Black Woman was employed by The Virginia Department of Corrections at its Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison and she sued The Virginia Department of Corrections, claiming her White colleagues were racist, see the case at KNOSKIE v. Va. Dept.of Corr. 2017 U.S. Dist.Lexis 22719. Also see this case by another Black person, this time a man, who also worked at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, Thomas McCurdy, who also sued The Virginia Department of Corrections, claiming his colleagues were racist, MCCURDY v. Va.Dept.Corr.2017 U.S. Dist. Lexis 142788. So when Virginia prisoners, their families, friends, allies and all equality under law loving Virginians speak to the horrors and harms perpetrated by the Virginia prison official, it's barbarity and savagery done in the name of the People of Virginia on the Virginia prisoner, it isn't self-serving to be summarily dismissed and comically deflected. But the response by Virginia government as represented and expressed by Governor Glenn Youngkin in his role as executive and his chosen administrator of the prison system, Director Chadwick Dotson, shouldn't be adversarial as if State of Virginia actors, i.e THE PRISON OFFICIAL are paragons of virtue, under the rubric of irreproachability. The reality however is Virginia Government has provisions for accountability, anticipating that its representatives will run the gamut of corruption, in all its malevolent expressions. The thing is processes which accountability is form, requires human agency or in other words, the human person behaving accountable or in accord with the intent, purpose and necessity of accountability

.The situation confronting The People of Virginia with its Justice Infrastructure and it's Virginia Department of Corrections is simple: THE WILL TO HOLD THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the question isn't what is to be done with the convicted, imprisoned and sanctioned under the varied expressions of Virginia's approximation of "justice", but the honesty of, as I've stated, holding the prison official accountable. As we recently have been reminded, by revelations of the extreme barbarity and savagery of the Virginia prison circumstance via the self-immolation of its prisoners, the Virginia prison official, is mind-numbingly corrupt. Because when Chadwick Dotson, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections was confronted with Virginians under his care as prisoners having to resort to self-immolation, setting themselves on fire as the only commonsensical means of saying their conditions of confinement was inhuman and inhumane. His response was firstly to blame Virginians who expect the Virginia prison official to perform their duties and do their job under Law as all other humans and the irony of this is the very law violated, broken and flaunted by the Virginia prison official is the same law that allows Chadwick Dotson to imprison those entrusted into his care. There isn't a human grouping, collective, social gathering or Society that doesn't have as its North Star, the simple Maxim, "two wrongs don't make it right". This simple recognition belies the twisted and torturous path of it's grasp,the haplessly brained, littering the neural gateways into our collective human psyche as testament, yet it is this dearly paid for understanding, that the Virginia prison official casually mocks with each and every act of impunity, every violation of law against the prisoner done in secret, behind the concrete and steel opportunity of prison walls, furnished and provided by the treasure and hypocrisy of The People of Virginia. First of all isn't accountability in society as terms of The Social Contract, that proverbial loose thread on a sleeve which upon tugging separates it from the body of the shirt?. Which we see clearly revealed in that reactionary and backwards politics of a perpetual prisoner dehumanization and it's scape goating at the expense of the integrity of The Social Contract, sacrificing that, "two wrongs don't make it right".The point in all of this is, the impunity of the prison official is an extension of the objectification of hypocrisy structuring The Social Contract and if government as its administrator is an idealistic mechanism, a team of bridled horses chomping at the bit, snorting and rearing up, anticipating that grip on reins, regardless of source, but as it relates to our human condition and holding the prison official accountable, human hands, then the behavior of the Virginia prison official in all of its unrivalled corruption and hypocrisy is a result of a lack of will, an unwillingness by The People of Virginia to rein in the chomping, snorting and kicking horse of State. By taking the fact of voting, paying taxes and all the myriad interactions consisting and making up the daily existence of a Virginian, necessary obligations and responsibilities requiring attention, because we cannot decry the barbarity and savagery of the Virginia prison official without actually taking those practical steps that will stop it.The Commonwealth of Virginia has a ahumanistic and supremacist construct, built on the political-economy of the chattel enslavement of Black people,which the prison system reflects, we can't castigate the history then reaffirm it under "justice".

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

Unmasking Red Onion State Prison: A Microcosm of Systemic Corruption By Kimberly Zittlow

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

The United States leads the world in incarceration, with over 1.8 million individuals behind bars. While the entire prison system is plagued with inefficiencies and injustices, Red Onion State Prison in Virginia stands out as a glaring example of everything that’s wrong. Beneath its supermax label lies a system riddled with corruption, cruelty, and a total disregard for rehabilitation. The time has come to shut Red Onion down, hold its leadership accountable, and reimagine the role of incarceration in America.

The Deep Rot Within Red Onion State Prison

Red Onion State Prison has become infamous for its culture of abuse, secrecy, and unchecked power. Reports from whistleblowers, investigative journalists, and former inmates reveal a horrifying picture: guards who use violence as a tool of control, medical staff who neglect basic care, and an administration that systematically buries allegations of misconduct. This isn’t a case of a few bad apples—the entire system is designed to dehumanize.

At the heart of the abuse is solitary confinement. At Red Onion, inmates are locked in isolation for 23 hours a day, sometimes for years on end. The psychological toll is staggering. Research consistently shows that prolonged solitary confinement causes severe mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and hallucinations. At Red Onion, these effects are compounded by reports of physical abuse, racial discrimination, and retaliation against inmates who speak out. The administration’s response? Silence or outright denial, perpetuating a system where abuse thrives unchecked.

The Human Toll of a Broken System

The impact of Red Onion’s practices isn’t confined to its walls. Inmates released from such an environment are often deeply traumatized, ill-prepared for reintegration, and more likely to reoffend. Solitary confinement and neglect strip away a person’s humanity, leaving them with little hope and fewer opportunities.

Medical neglect at Red Onion is equally damning. Chronic illnesses go untreated, injuries are ignored, and mental health care is almost nonexistent. Whistleblowers have described systemic delays and outright refusals in providing medical attention. The result is unnecessary suffering and, in some cases, preventable deaths. Such negligence is a stark reminder of how deeply flawed the system has become.

A Symptom of a Larger Problem

Red Onion isn’t an anomaly—it’s a magnifying glass over the failures of the U.S. prison system. Across the country, incarceration prioritizes punishment over progress. Nearly 65% of inmates struggle with substance abuse disorders, and countless others face untreated mental health challenges. Yet, instead of addressing these root causes, the system doubles down on punitive measures, perpetuating cycles of crime and incarceration.

What Must Change

The solution begins with acknowledging that Red Onion’s existence is indefensible. Its closure is a necessary step, but the transformation cannot stop there. The entire prison system needs a paradigm shift.

Shut Down Red Onion and Demand Accountability

Red Onion’s operations must cease immediately. Its leadership should face thorough investigations, and those found guilty of corruption or abuse must be held accountable. Closing Red Onion would send a powerful message: systemic neglect and abuse will no longer be tolerated.

Reimagine Prisons as Centers for Rehabilitation

The prison system’s purpose should be to rehabilitate, not punish. Addiction treatment, education, and vocational training must become standard. Evidence shows that inmates who participate in such programs are significantly less likely to reoffend. Facilities must provide these resources to break the cycle of incarceration.

Enforce Transparency and Oversight

Unbiased, independent oversight is critical to preventing future abuses. Prisons must maintain external boards to monitor operations, investigate complaints, and ensure accountability. Whistleblowers should be protected and empowered to report misconduct without fear of retaliation.

Address Mental and Physical Health Holistically

Prisons must prioritize mental health care, including therapy, crisis intervention, and medication management. Comprehensive health care should be a baseline expectation, not a rare exception. At facilities like Red Onion, neglect has turned manageable conditions into life-threatening crises.

Learning from Global Models

Countries like Norway and Germany demonstrate that rehabilitation-focused systems are effective. In Norway, prisons emphasize education, therapy, and reintegration, resulting in recidivism rates below 20%. Germany’s system focuses on maintaining inmates’ connections to society, preparing them for productive lives after release. These models prove that humane incarceration works.

The Road Ahead

Transforming the U.S. prison system requires more than incremental change—it demands a complete rethinking of our approach to justice. Here’s what must happen:

Close Red Onion State Prison: Its closure is essential to dismantle the culture of abuse.

Investigate Corruption Thoroughly: Hold leadership accountable and prosecute misconduct.

Pass Legislative Reforms: Prioritize rehabilitation and allocate funds for education, addiction treatment, and mental health care.

Implement Oversight Mechanisms: Establish independent boards to ensure transparency and accountability.

Change Public Perception: Advocacy campaigns must emphasize the benefits of a rehabilitative approach.

The Moral and Practical Imperative

Red Onion State Prison stands as a monument to the failures of America’s prison system. Its corruption, abuse, and neglect are unacceptable. But Red Onion is more than just a failing institution—it’s a call to action. By closing it and embracing a rehabilitative model, the U.S. can move toward a system that values accountability, transformation, and public safety. The time to act is now.

--

Sincerely,

Kimberly Zittlow 

INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE CRITICIZING JOE BIDEN GAMBIT FOR HIS CLEMENCIES, GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN, SHOULD STOP SCAPEGOATING VIRGINIA PRISONERS: STOP CREATING PRISON CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IMPELLS PRISONERS TO SELF-IMMOLATE By William Thorpe

How old and ancient is the cliche, "the pot calling the kettle black", because, Governor Glenn Youngkin seems to have recently discovered it and is applying it as ethos of his leadership of The Commonwealth, which isn't just that its pathetic and crassly unoriginal. But its a senseless, meaningless and idealistic detour in the affairs, progress and development of The People of Virginia. Come on man, come on People. Of course once upon a time the chasm between cognition and superstition was wide enough to allow and accept the existence of petty and terroristic dictatorship in it's variegated and idealistic forms, from the chattel enslavement of Black people in Virginia, through monarchism, colonialism, supremacism its jim crow, apartheid, Nazism and Zionism progenies, along with the major political-economies of the 19th and 20th centuries to their deconstructionist iterations in this 21st century. But much to the chagrin and despair of our neo-feudalist, there has been much shrinkage to the point, it isn't up to that proverbial little boy's declaration, of "the emperor has no clothes". Our contemporary human condition is so saturated with cognition, that neo-Berkeley's and Berkeleianism are resurrected ala Curtis Yarvin, with their wheel reinventing regressive indulgences. The point is, yes reaction is alive and well, even thriving that, last gasping burst of activity and we see this clearly in that "pot calling the kettle black" politics practiced by Glenn Youngkin and his Republican compadres. The Virginia Department Of Corrections under the present leadership of Governor Glenn Youngkin and his chosen Director of its administration, Chadwick Dotson is a mess and we need not look any further than the fact, Virginia prisoners are resorting to setting themselves on fire as speech, that the barbarity and savagery meted out on a daily basis is beyond the pale. Instead of responding to this unqualified state of perdition within the prisoner population, we see our "Dear Leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin expending the time, energy and treasure invested and entrusted to him by The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia in a fraudulent and idealistic criticism of President Joe Biden's exercise of the prerogatives and privileges of the Office of The President of The United States, by granting clemency. First of all as a Nation, relatively under the rule of Law, (I say relatively, because Governor Glenn Youngkin has made clear that his grasp and respect of law is, some are above it and not subject to its accounting) so as a Nation under the rule and process of law, clemency, commutations and pardons are integral parts of its adjudication and are not some aside to be opportunistically reviled, castigated and dismissed as if the surrender of the individuals natural urge for revenge isn't the trade of within The Commonwealth's Social Contract and the duty of The Executive or Leader is to remind us the citizenry of the trade of. Because is Glenn Youngkin in his role as Governor of Virginia under the delusion that the State meets and satisfies its obligations to "all" The People of Virginia?

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

Shutting Down Virginia's Red Onion State Prison By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

Shutting Down Virginia's Red Onion State Prison

 By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

Prison Radio

PUBLIC SAFETY? YOU KNOW WHAT, LETS GET REAL, CAN OUR "DEAR LEADER" GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN AND HIS JASON MIYARES HENCHMAN EVEN SPELL IT. By William Thorpe

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

Virginia Prisoners set themselves on fire, Virginia prisoners self-immolate, an exercise in defacto declaratory-accusatory speech if there ever was one. We have a Virginia Department of Corrections whose historic philosophy is to war against its wards. We have incorrigible reactionaries holding hostage Virginia's Social Contract, tragically obstructing renunciation of its "supremacist" delusions. We have terms of The Social Contract and its aspirations fecklessly reduced to hypocrisies and the inexorable antagonism of the classic adage, "when the cats' away the mice will play", which is all and the only thing, Glenn Youngkin and his Republican cabal are capable of, under the intellectual-liberalism of projectionism, euphemistic seizure of words and language, revisionism in all its forms and applications, exposed and revealed as the inevitable subornation of law, which we then see embodied as the logic of the Virginia prison official, packaged as that catch all, that shibboleth of PUBLIC SAFETY. In earlier works I showed how under the PUBLIC SAFETY catch phrase Societies, Government and the human being has shamelessly done great harm, incalculable horrors and numbing perversions Ala, a stuck on stupid Sisyphus. The fulfillment of that "cats' away" adage, that absence of the cat, the, mythic Feline Sphinx sentinel with its civilizing reminder, that cutting off the nose to spite the face, which is the intellectual-liberalism of the reactionary and petty short-sighted opportunist is only a virulent contagion, exposing the compromises of the faith and trust in the "no one is above law", social glue. Yet that is exactly what we keep on seeing Glenn Youngkin and his Republicans, like a cat drawn to cat nip doing. First of all, the Virginia prisoner is not an enemy of the state. There are countless Virginia prisoners who time and time again and again are found to have been unjustly and unlawfully convicted and imprisoned. Thats why in principle the application of the justice infrastructure and its process as a formulation of democracy shys away from the intellectual-liberalism of vindictiveness, because the presumption of the adjudicative process itself through its appellate provisions shows that practical recognition that law and its process is an approximation, where the savage," shoot first and ask questions later" is distortive and permissive, a carte blanche for animalistic and savage petty cruelty. Because a justice process exploiting imprisonment cannot undo cruelty as its base practice, when it is found out and discovered that a prisoner was unjustly imprisoned. Yet that is the only thing we keep seeing the Virginia Republican stuck on, its like the Virginia Republican in particular and to an extent the cowed so called conservative Virginia Democrat consistently and unimaginatively exploiting the stale politics of scape goating the Virginia prisoner as a diversionary sleight of hand for the misanthropic consequences of their Sisyphean social contract contradictions and hypocrisies. So once again we see a return to this sordid politics with our "Dear Leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin waging war on the Virginia prisoner with his intellectual-liberal opposition to the Virginia Prisoner having the EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT program and once again couching the Virginia Republican opposition to the EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT program as PUBLIC SAFETY.

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

THE WORK OF THESE WOMEN, OUR SISTERS, MARIE DEANS AND ELIZABETH ROSE ALEXANDER, HOLDING THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO ACCOUNT WAS REAL, WE DON'T FORGET AND WE SALUTE THEM BAYETE !!!. By William Thorpe

Elizabeth Alexander

If we don't speak for ourselves no one will and even worse, what might get said will be insulting, a mockery and a perversion.The Virginia Department of Corrections has since inception been a charnel agency as such, work has been to reform it and people great and anonymous, have over the years contributed and still are towards wrangling enlightenment and reform on it , along with the requisite accountability. One of these greats, was Elizabeth Rose Alexander, a lawyer from The ACLU's NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT, her work and the Projects' was to hold accountable the Prison Official in their work of holding the imprisoned convicted accountable. In other words Elizabeth Alexander and her colleagues, for one the indomitable Adjoa Aiyetoro, were simply ensuring that the prison official didn't think impunity had over ruled equality under law and its no one is above it, demands, specifically and particularly, uniforms of The State or Government i.e The Virginia Prison Official. I saw Elizabeth Alexander back in, I think 1983 when I was in Administrative Segregation or Solitary Confinement at Building 1 B-pod Left of Virginia's Mecklenburg Correctional Center. She and her colleague Adjoa Aiyetoro were working on the case, BROWN v. LANDON #81-0853 a class action, which was focused on holding the Virginia Prison official at Mecklenburg accountable for their savagery and barbarity. Lets fast forward to 1984 and its string of events, starting with the May 31,1984 escape from Mecklenburg Correctional Center of six prisoners from its death-row, which was a then first, in American prison history. So true to the prison officials only response to such occurrences in prison, they retaliated with the usual collective punishment, meaning even though the rest of the prisoner population had nothing to do with, knew nothing about a death row escape, we all got punished. I was at the time in punitive isolation at Mecklenburg's Building 1 A-pod Right, I think in cell #9. The Mecklenburg Prison official's response was, for starters, cancelling showers, outside exercise, visitation e.t.c, for over a couple of months. Cells were flooded with toxic, foul stagnant water for a couple of months, where you had to wade through to the cell's door to get meals. Imagine you're confined to your closet with calf deep water for a couple of months, eating e.t.c in such a condition. That was what we as prisoners held in solitary confinement at Mecklenburg dealt with as a result of sets of events. So when outside exercise was finally resumed, four (4) prisoners went outside on Building 1 recreation yard, then they asked to talk to the Warden, in response to the request over 30+riot gear dressed prison guards, with shields, batons,e.t.c stormed the recreation yard, assaulted the prisoners bloody senseless, then dragged them to their cells. One of the prisoners was beaten so brutally he was covered from head to toe in blood and were not given medical care and attention, all in violation of Virginia law, Virginia Department of Corrections policies and procedures. After this prison official egged on, instigated and exacerbated incident.The then in 1984 Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Robert M. Landon, wrote an opinion-propaganda piece, for publication in Virginia's main stream media, which in effect was a declaration of war on Virginia prisoners held in solitary confinement at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center. So on July 26, 1984 true to Landons' propaganda piece Virginia's Government unleashed its organized violence on its solitary confined, imprisoned citizens at The Mecklenburg Correctional Center, by sending unidentified riot gear clad prison guards to The Mecklenburg prison, with the purpose of terrorizing prisoners, because that is how they behaved. Ripping clothes off prisoners, assaulting, hurling racist epithets, abusing and brutalizing prisoners who were in handcuffs, destroying prisoners limited property under a farcical pretext of searching cells for contraband. The evidence of this is simple, as prisoners we know when the prison official's behavior is legitimate, because there is a modicum of comportment with procedures and policies. What transpired on July 26,1984 particularly at Building 1 and 5 of Mecklenburg Correctional Center was fascist and terroristic, a Government violating its own citizens in compromise and at the expense of the same Law ,that created the prisoner.(For an idea of the attitude and mind set of the Mecklenburg prison official, see this case Jackson v. Blair 851 F.2d 714). The gratuitousness and egregiousness of the July 26,1984 sets of events and incident at Mecklenburg Correctional Center,was so blatant that The Commonwealth of Virginia via its Department of Corrections had to take one of its farcical acts of holding its prison official accountable, with this, August 10,1984 administrative act of firing or dismissing two (2) of the jack-booted storm troopers it deployed to terrorize the Virginia prisoner with a third (3d) receiving the typical "temporary disciplinary suspension".Then on August 4, 1984 prisoners at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, seized its Building 5 along with nine (9) hostages, then listed demands from medical care to educational. Now here is where Elizabeth Rose Alexander put her life on the line for the Virginia prisoner.The Commonwealth of Virginia responded with the might,force of its organized violence on the path as Governor Nelson Rockefellers' tragic and catastrophic response to his 1971, State of New York Attica Correctional Center incident.Despite the arrayed rank and file battle orders of Virginia's organized violence, Elizabeth Rose Alexander stood, a solitary sentinel, the only representative compelling compliance to the formulations of the basic terms of Virginia's Social Contract. So as prisoners of Building 5 left the building that Sunday morning,to be handcuffed, shackled and placed on buses for transport to other solitary confinement prisons within Virginia, Elizabeth Rose Alexander watched, a solitary reminder to the arrayed elements of Virginia's organized violence that no one is above law, not even their carnal and visceral urge to retaliate against the Virginia prisoner who moments earlier held their colleagues as speech.

I had heard about Marie Deans,but I met her for the first time after I had just been released from solitary confinement, in 1985 at the Virginia State Penitentiary's C-Building,into the prison's General Population. I was given her phone number to call because she wanted to talk to me.What I knew then and understood about Marie Deans was, she was a paralegal helping prisoners on Virginia's Death Row, or those sentenced to die, who at that time were confined at The Mecklenburg Correctional Center. After the 1984 string of events at Mecklenburg Correctional Center,culminating in the August 4-5, 1984 Building-5 takeover and hostage seizure, her focus and attention was expanding to prisoners in solitary confinement and I had just been released from the cages of Virginia's primary solitary confinement prisons, C-Building of The State Penitentiary, M-Building of The Powhatan Correctional Center or State Farm and lastly, Mecklenburg Correctional Center. I knew a bit about Marie's work from some of the death row prisoners she was helping with their appeals, namely Willie Lloyd Turner,who Virginia executed in 1995 (see his case at Turner v. Murray 476 U.S 28 also Turner v. Commonwealth 221 Va. 513 also Turner v. Commonwealth 234 Va.543) and Joseph Giarratano, who recently died as a free person, after being paroled in 2016 or 2017 (see his case at Giarratano v. Procunier 891 F.2d 483 also Giarratano v. Commonwealth 220 Va.1064) because both had been brought from C-pod which was death row to A-pod which was Special Management and isolation or punitive solitary confinement and on a number of occasions were my neighbors, so I was familiar with Marie Deans work. My 1985 stay on general population at the Virginia State Penitentiary didn't last, as a matter of fact only a couple of weeks, because of retaliatory harassment from the State Penitentiary's prison official due to events at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. What elevates Marie Deans into the pantheon of "Greats" in the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable is this 1985 event and incident. Before I continue let me say this Marie, also founded an advocacy group, THE VIRGINIA COALITION ON JAILS AND PRISON, of which she was the Executive Director, back in the middle '80's, on its Board were a couple of death row prisoners, Willie Lloyd Turner and Joseph Giarratano along with certain Virginia attorneys. Not long after I was reinterred in solitary confinement at The State Penitentiary's C-Building, in November 1985 during a weekend lunch meal, on either a Saturday or Sunday, one of the guys who was in the basement of C-Building with me, yelled that his meal was tampered with, the lunch meal by the way was tuna fish for those who ate meat which I don't. We helped get the attention of the officer working in the basement, the guy with the suspect meal asked to make a phone call, which he used to call Marie Deans. Now this is what makes Marie Deans exceptional, upon getting the call and the suspicion that a meal probably had been poisoned, she hurriedly came to The Virginia State Penitentiary and not only did she come to the prison, but she managed something extraordinary, Marie Deans came all the way across the prison to C-Building, which was a prison within a prison encased in its own walls, then she came down into the basement which was a virtual dungeon, the most restricted part of solitary confinement, which is where we where, she got the officer to unlock the solid door to the potentially poisoned prisoner's cell, she then put the tuna fish into a ziplock bag she had then left with the suspect meal to be tested at a lab. Such an act in Virginia's prison history was a first. Marie Deans has passed on, but she LIVES

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

How a school shooter’s parents were convicted of homicide Via Think Pocast

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

 

When Jennifer and James Crumbley were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter this spring, it was the first time parents were convicted for a role in a school shooting. John Woodrow Cox, enterprise reporter for The Washington Post, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his time embedded with the prosecutor who built the case against the parents of a son who killed four students at his high school – and what it means for future legal cases regarding the actions of minors

Think Podcast

THE KONCENTRATION KAMP RED ONION STATE PRISON VERSUS THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

Come on man, who is surprised by the recent disclosure by THE APPEAL, that the what to do brain storming of The Virginia Department of Corrections concerning the recent self-immolation by human beings under its care as prisoners at The Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, couldn't get past the tired, archaic, same ole same ole, reactionary rut unoriginality of dabbling in the speculations of aversive moral hazard accentuation. So The Appeals' reporting educates us with revelations that Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison apparatchiks or prison officials doing their what is to be done on prisoner self-immolation were focused on imposing fines, court processes and adjudication along with all sorts of bizarre speculations, for example self-immolation was means for a contact visit,(the obvious irony that setting oneself on fire is in deed suicidal simply escaped and eluded its proponent) all at the expense of the obvious stop treating Virginia prisoners barbarically and savagely. There is an old adage, if all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail. The Virginia prison official haplessly equates imprisonment with, barbarity, savagery, pain, cruelty and the dynamic of the lash on an enslaved's back, because that was its progenitor. The reality is the Virginia prison official hasn't been made to disprove it, that its reactionary, intellectual-liberal speculations and antebellum suppositions of its terms and administration of imprisonment are professionally legitimate and valid to the only point of view that matters, which is that of The People of Virginia. Okay, so what do we have, The Virginia Department of Corrections is the State largest agency with the largest budget, in other words, The People of Virginia invest more in the creation of conditions and circumstances that compel, impell and drive its imprisoned to self-immolate, than in the education, job training, health care, housing and development of positive infrastructure towards the realization of its Social Contract aspirations. What we have come to incontrovertibly realize and recognize is in all standards of measure The Virginia Department of Corrections is unaccountable, because it doesn't have to measurably prove and show anything. Its one and clear function is, a redistributor of wealth and tax payer money to locales and environments that play no role in the "creation" of money. The prison official serves and provides a retail function in Virginia's political-economy as such its only perspective is to see the Virginia prisoner as chattel, a source of provisions. Consequently the Virginia prisoner is dehumanized and the relationship with the Department is antagonistic. The Virginia prison official consistently is at war, in a state of conflict with the Virginia prisoner. Of course we are given the contradictory verbiage of maintaining order, but the maintenance of such order, its definitions and applications shouldn't be casually left to the purely and obvious economic self-interest based sophistry of the prison officials' self-assertions, particularly after the recent Supreme Court of The United States rulings on "The Chevron Doctrine", on the authority of unelected administrative officials, including prison officials. What this shows is the impunity, a lack of accountability, compromising what it means to be human in post antebellum Virginia and the dictatorial predilections of the prison official to abuse, savage and violate law. Nonetheless the Virginia prison official despite their antipathy must be reminded are still defined by the norms and standards of Virginia's Social Contract, its Law.

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

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO DEL. MICHAEL JONES (D) RICHMOND AND THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, THIS IS 2025 WE NEED A DYNAMIC POLITICS APPLYING THE "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" MAXIM TO THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL By William Thorpe

The human being is barbaric which is why we have law. The human being is savage, so we pursue civilization. The human being, as president-elect Donald Trump and Governor Glenn Youngkin have reminded and shown is nothing more than a petty hypocrite, so The Social Contract of society which The Commonwealth of Virginia is component requires accountability on the formulation of, no one is outside of its exegesis therefore justice and its application in society is it's objectification and the inexorability of accountability. Which brings us to the crossroad lattice of how to mete it out, currently Virginia exploits the gamut of criminal sanction. This work isn't intended to ferret out the antagonistic history of Virginia's justice infrastructure and its prison system but simply state that it is. The Justice Infrastructure which The Virginia Department of Corrections is legatee was egregiously and gratuitously barbaric and savage, and as descendant, The Virginia Department of Corrections has continued the psychosis and has fought tooth and nail against giving up an inch, a quarter on reform, regardless and irrespective of how pro forma, how illusory and deceptive. Let's take this 1971 case, LANDMAN v. ROYSTER 333 F.Supp. 621 that admonished and put The Virginia Department of Corrections on notice that its practices and behavior at the then Virginia State Penitentiary were unconstitutional, meaning it violated The Constitution of The United States, with this excerpted quote "A disregard of constitutional guaranties of so grave a nature as to violate the most common notions of due process and humane treatment". This was said in 1971 about the savagery of the Virginia Prison Official by a United States Federal Judge. This exposure of the barbarity of the Virginia prison official continues in a 1983 case, SHRADER v. WHITE 1983 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 15888. So let's fast forward to this 21st. century, and 2025 54 years after the exposure and admonishment of the case Landman v. Royster to the recent horrific revelations and disclosures of prisoner self-immolation from The Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison.

Awright folks, you the reader, LET THIS SINK IN, VIRGINIA PRISONERS IN THE 21st CENTURY ARE REDUCED TO THE SPEECH OF SELF-IMMOLATION !!!, in a tragic effort at making the same point Federal Judges in the 20th century scathingly made, and I paraphrase, that the Virginia Prison Official is, savage. Philistines, apologist and reactionaries among us are always quick to wrap themselves in The U.S Constitution or for purposes of this work, The Virginia Constitution while dismissing and dehumanizing its very objects. A Constitution which I'm certain didn't anticipate, expect nor envision that despite and nevertheless its cravenly, comedic and idealistic contradictions and horrific antagonisms, its "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS ....."would confront itself with the witness of Virginia prisoners processed upon its terms in the 21st century, speaking with the desperate speech of setting themselves on fire in the cages of The Commonwealth of Virginia's Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp all because The Social Contract that presumed to exact accountability of their acts and behavior, mocked and compromised the very process and terms it deployed against them, for their internment and imprisonment by sinking into that most unoriginal of human states, the, petty hypocrisy of "don't do as I do but as I say "and its default infamy of irreproachability at the expense of the faith and trust social glue of "no one is above law".Now the point is this, only the feckless Virginian, private or public citizen, will in this 21st century act as if news of the Virginia prison official behaving savagely is revelatory, when we have its insulting affront of chronicles upon chronicles, dusty volumes filled with accounts upon accounts of dirty deeds, Court cases and Virginia General Assembly records of purported accountability, over sight hearings. So the work isn't another fact finding anything. Look as prisoners under the jurisdictional process of The Commonwealth of Virginia of course we welcome the attention and focus by our Virginia Legislators, i.e, THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, then Del. Michael Jones and caucus aide Ceci Cain's recent 12/30/24 trip to the State's Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp, due to the immediate reports of prisoner self-immolation. But the point is, the State of Virginia has squandered whatever margins of good faith presumption it tenuously claimed, when the Chief Executive, our "Dear Leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin is in the vanguard of abrogating the very social glue of faith and trust in the rule of law, by his obscene cavorting with the quintessential totem of irreproachability, the convicted felon president-elect Donald Trump. So on what grounds, on what basis, what is steerage of The Commonwealth? when the seeming application of its law is its violation by its Prison Official? The only question the Virginia legislator has to answer is are they willing to act that they have in and for themselves terms of critique and exercise its authority as much as their deluded reactionary colleagues, who are intoxicated with their point of view monopolistic zealotry, which ironically mocks the function of Virginia's General Assembly as institution. We see its result, when Chadwick Dotson as Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections can "confidently" state in the 21st century that Virginia prisoners who self-immolated only burnt their legs and he isn't immediately relieved of his position and authority.

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

THE VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD IS PATRONAGE, PURE AND SIMPLE, ALONG WITH THE CRASS CORRUPTION THAT COMES WITH IT By William Thorpe

The question isn't whether The Virginia Parole Board is corrupted, but what is to be done about it. The dispensation, assignment attribution and grant of parole to prisoners, as all our other social relations and facts is fraught with corruption. A corruption, as I have in previous works posited is structurally inherent in systems as The Virginia Department of Corrections and as I will make the case, The Virginia Parole Board. To begin, The entire construct of The Virginia Justice Infrastructure is corrupted, from inception because its intended basis, historic purpose and utility has nothing to do with justice as a democratic mechanism of faith and trust in The Social Contract, its aspirations and comity. As such, the derived consequences have been, a denial that the corruption exist in the first place, subsequently efforts at, and work of reforming it has been illogically adversarial .and idealistically reactionary, a statement and revelatory fact to the actual purpose of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the entire justice infrastructure as a dedicated and devoted tool of maintaining subservient, subordinated, privileged and supremacist political-economic Social Contract facts and relations. As such the reformative and societal, We The People affirming, optimistic perspective of paroling prisoners will and destructively be at odds with the oppositionary and repressive narrative of the status quo beneficiaries, its defenders, functionaries, supporters and allies. So with this as functional lattice of The Virginia Parole Board, we begin with the Republican Administration of the disgraced "macaca"racist slurring George Allen as Governor of Virginia who idealistically abolished Parole in Virginia circa 1995.The schizophrenic history of Parole in The Commonwealth of Virginia is documented in the case BURNETTE v. FAHEY 687 F.3d. 171.

Parole being an extension of the adjudged "criminal" sentence, is subsequently exploited by political opportunist in their perpetual quest for speculative power without regard for the consequences, of which the destruction of the faith and trust in the social contract is collateral. This destruction, then begins with the accepted patronage of how The Virginia Parole Board is structured. Parole as narrative, is a philosophical social release valve, a mitigative logic, attempting to respond to the obvious antagonisms and contradictions of the justice system, giving it a veneer of enlightenment which we see defined and expressed in the various levels of Virginia and The Nation's jurisprudence and we begin with, the SENTENCING REFORM ACT of 1984 or (SRA) and a part of it's U.S. Congress debate....."are compounded by the fact that the sentencing Judges and Parole officials are consistently second guessing each other, and as a result, prisoners and the public are seldom certain about the real sentence a defendant will serve "[excerpted from DAMN THE TORPEDOES ! AN UNPRINCIPLED INCORRECT AND LONELY APPROACH TO COMPASSIONATE RELEASE 44 CARDOZA L. REV. 477 by CHRISTOPHER J. MERKEN]. I will begin to list, excerpt and quote works that will make some of my position, so I begin with asking you the reader to study the dissent by Judge Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in the case 996 F. 3d 1243, then check out these cases CONCEPCION v. United States 597 U.S.481, then to see the continuum of the madness of American Jurisprudence over the issue and role of Parole start with, from 1798 LYON'S CASE 15 F. CAS 1183, then from 1855, UNITED STATES v. NYE 27 F. CAS 210, then from 1869, UNITED STATES v. RANDLE 27 F. CAS 696,then from 1887 STATE v. SOMMERS 98 N.C.702, then from 1908 STATE v. REEDER 79 S.C.139, then pay attention to the analysis in UNITED STATES v. JOHNSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 104204.....then pay attention to this, UNITED STATES LAW WHICH NORMALLY IS A GUIDE FOR STATES AT USCS TITLE 18 sec. 3582 (a) STATES FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN IMPOSING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT...... "RECOGNIZING THAT IMPRISONMENT IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE MEANS OF PROMOTING CORRECTION AND REHABILITATION" (see TAPIA v. UNITED STATES 564 U.S.319) then focus on this "THE HEART OF THE MATTER IS THAT DEMOCRACY IMPLIES RESPECT FOR THE ELEMENTARY RIGHTS OF MEN, HOWEVER SUSPECT OR UNWORTHY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MUST THEREFORE PRACTICE FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS CAN RARELY BE OBTAINED BY SECRET, ONE-SIDED DETERMINATION OF FACTS OF RIGHTS" (excerpted from JOINT ANTI-FACIST REFUGE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S. 123) then study this "DURING THE PAST 60 YEARS THE PRACTICE OF RELEASING PRISONERS ON PAROLE BEFORE THE END OF THEIR SENTENCE HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE PENOLOGICAL SYSTEM" "RATHER THAN BEING AN AD HOC EXERCISE OF CLEMENCY, PAROLE IS AN ESTABLISHED VARIATION ON IMPRISONMENT OF CONVICTED CRIMINALS" (excerpted from MORRISEY v. BREWER 408 U.S.471) then lastly study CONCEPCION v. UNITED STATES: COMPASSIONATE DRUG SENTENCING REFORM AGAINST A CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM BUILT ON RACIALIZED SOCIAL CONTROL 101 DEN. L. REV. ONLINE 1 by MISTY L. SCHLABAUGH...... Now with the stated above I have one more point to state, The Virginia Parole Board under Virginia jurisprudence is, an administrative body acting in the role of parens patriae, meaning (Black's Law Dictionary, "the state regarded as a sovereign the state in its capacity as provider of protection to those unable to care for themselves, which under Virginia law, the Virginia prisoner at Virginia Code 8.01-2 (6) PERSON UNDER A DISABILITY..... (a) A person convicted of a felony during the period he is confined, is

To the Virginia status quo, its supporters, functionaries and allies nothing I've said about the farce and fraudulence of Virginia's Parole Board is news or an affront that needs and requires reform. Instead what they find offensive is that I've said it. But the point is the only necessary and required understanding is that of the everyday Virginian who rote and pro forma like votes into political authority the exploiters and compromisers of Virginia's Social Contract, its idea of justice, but is complicit because of social inattentiveness and the corollary ignorance, nonetheless suffers and endures its consequences. Despite the fact, the focus of this work is the idea and practice of parole, still, it encompasses the circumstances of the Social Contract which is the basis of parole as idea. We would like to think and suppose that governmental activity, which The Virginia Parole Board under the aegis of The Justice Infrastructure and The Virginia Department Of Corrections, is. Isn't choosing sides, favoring parts of society, factions of society, in otherwords isn't partisan, thereby pitting itself against itself and is in a constant war with itself, expending extreme and inordinate amounts of labor, struggling to conceal that it is partisan, but is and we see this clearly with the idea and practice of parole. Parole is a component of criminal adjudication, a process that's relative to the existence and interactivity of The Social Contract, irrespective of acceptance and subordination. Meaning it's in service of and a requisite for the civilization of society. However due to the historical perversion and political-economic denigration of humanness and its value, the justice process of Virginia society then assumes a function of idealistic social control, undermining its progressive aspirations. So what we encounter is the opposite to what The Supreme Court of The United States instructed in JOINT ANTI-FASCIST REFUGE COMMITTEE v. McGRATH 341 U.S 123 that "THE HEART OF THE MATTER IS THAT DEMOCRACY IMPLIES RESPECT FOR THE ELEMENTARY RIGHTS OF MEN, HOWEVER SUSPECT OR UNWORTHY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MUST THEREFORE PRACTICE FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS CAN RARELY BE OBTAINED BY SECRET, ONE-SIDED DETERMINATION OF FACTS DECISIVE OF RIGHTS" and The Virginia Parole Board, The Virginia Department Of Corrections, the entire purported oversight mechanisms of The Commonwealth of Virginia systemically violate it in principle and in deed. Notwithstanding the gibberish sophistry swallowed hook and sinker, by The Virginia media in its misleading articulation of the fraudulent and farcical activities and behavior of all three levels of The Commonwealth's Government, beginning with the patronage of the Virginia Executive in peopling The Virginia Parole Board, the Virginia citizenry still have the social responsibility of understanding what is being done and implemented in their name. If the Virginia citizenry are funding with their tax receipts, the existence and function of The Virginia Parole Board and if the very idea and purpose of parole, is to release the imprisoned yet what we experience is the parole board failing to do what tax payers are paying it to do then its fraud and must be understood as such. The idea that people, government officials tasked with determining the quintessential speculative enterprise of parole, a process that's corrupted from inception due to its askant view of objective methodologies can then attempt to side step its obligations with the most insulting of logic, that prisoners haven't performed or satisfied such and such conditions only reinforces what we already know.

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

THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HISTORICALLY HAS A SICK AND POOR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY SO ANDREA SAPONE AS THE FIRST, UNDER THE NEW STATUTORILY CREATED CORRECTIONS OMBUDSMAN HAS A CLEAR TASK By William Thorpe

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

The relationship a government has "off" The People, is a simple one and The Commonwealth Of Virginia isn't an exception. When principles of authority were wrenched from the English King John towards it's realization through the historic Magna Carta, on which The Commonwealth of Virginia, as The United States, assumes Social Contract or viz Law and its process as a form and version of relationship, OFF THE PEOPLE, it's simplicity of governance and The People attained a level of relative social maturity, in the specific context of, a revelatory application of social truth, accountability and transparency. Let me make this point, regardless of and irrespective of class distinctions in society and for purpose of this work, Virginia society, the relationships and interactions not only are among The People, but are The People. This point has to be made, because without the responsibility of its understanding, The People, Virginians have this blissful amnesiac indulgence of a presumed lack of complicity and culpability for the derived social horrors and harms done in their name. The Virginia Department Of Corrections, as function of governance and government is a social truth of that relationship, Off The People, along with all of the attendant deviations, subsequently its relationship with the people has that paradoxical nature of while acting on their behest, in their name, yet betraying its surrogate basis, thereby introducing a compromising fact and tyrannical circumstance, that is a natural consequence of that blissful amnesiac indulgence.

Our ancients instructed that the knowledge and understanding of the administration and management of the processes or the inner workings of a government, a State's Social Contract, its Law, not laws, but, Law which in this case, The Commonwealth of Virginia are 'secrets', as such are the most essential, significant and fundamentally educative. So those employed in its administration as functionaries of the processes or its gate keepers, in essence "bouncers" a la your typical nightclub are the possessors of the 'secrets', revealing and sharing with some of WE THE PEOPLE, at the omissive expense of the rest. An activity of our corrupt typical humanness expressed with all of our intrinsic proclivities, inclinations, predilections, biases, prejudices, sanctimony and suppositions.(What I mean by, our corrupt typical humanness is this, the human is a model of approximation and assumption as such our activity is relative and revisionist, see this case: MOSCHETTI v. OFF. OF. THE INSPECTOR GEN. 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 215863, Jennifer Moschetti was a former investigator employed with The State Inspector General of Virginia in other words she was a possessor of 'secrets' ,she was fired over the parole matter of VINCENT L. MARTIN, convicted of killing a Richmond cop. This case is instructive, because it was about The Virginia Parole Board's alleged violation of its process in the matter of a convicted cop killer, of which the office of State Inspector General was anonymously tipped. Now The Office of State Inspector General has its statutory authority from Virginia Code 2.2-309, which is broad and comprehensive in its scope. Keep in mind what I've said about the performance of governmental functionaries in possession of State secrets and their selectivity of revelation, in other words whom of We The People are permitted function. So just as the, Moschetti case was about the pursuit of an anonymous tip in the parole matter of a cop killer, the office of State Inspector General has been sent countless claims by Virginia prisoners of Virginia prison official abuse which hasn't and didn't receive the relative attention as the parole matter of a cop killer. Here is another reference point of activities of possessors of State secrets, to excerpt one of my previous works, from June 26, 2023 titled "EXPLOITING VICTIMS OF CRIME AND SCAPEGOATING VIRGINIA'S PAROLE PROCESS: THE BACKWARDNESS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER THREE (2022) One of the first things a newly sworn in Glenn Youngkin as Governor....felt was the most pressing....was to sign Executive Order Number Three (2022) styled RESTORING INTEGRITY AND CONFIDENCE IN THE VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD AND THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF JUSTICE, on January 15, 2022. "Now this Executive Order by a newly sworn in Youngkin was again in reaction to the parole matter of Vincent L. Martin, again exemplifying, some Virginians are valued more than others. Because let's fast forward to 2024 and another case and instance of Virginia Parole Board violations, as formalized in accounts specifically a October 14, 2024 letter by The ACLU of VIRGINIA, stating that the Parole Board is in violation of Virginia Code 53.1-136 and also HB 2169 and SB 1361, to which we haven't seen any level of activity comparable to the allegations in the parole matter of Vincent L. Martin) So these functionary possessors of 'secrets' of The Commonwealth of Virginia, in other words its human embodiment of Law and it's processes are the corrupted factor and aspects of when we say, The Virginia Department of Corrections has a sick and poor relationship with the truth, accountability and transparency. The point is this, if its understood hence accepted that omniscience is just that a point of sophistic critique then, the first order of business in all things human and our Social Contract or Law, is the pursuit and objectification of transparency, (which to you opportunistic invokers of God and religion, the Nazarene's crucifixion narrative deals with, as the asserted event of, the temple veil being rent or ripped to reveal or make transparent what was hidden, see, Matthew 27:51 "Then, behold,the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom", also at Mark 15:38 "then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom "also at Luke 23:45 ".....,and the veil of the temple was torn in two") which as it relates to the work of reforming The Virginia Department Of Corrections, is a requisite of "oversight" or the duty of our Virginia legislative and political leaders, exacting accountability of The Department. So as it relates to Andrea Sapone, the new Corrections Ombudsman, her position as a new statutory creation itself is a gimmick, because Virginia Code 2.2-309 as authority for the already existing Virginia's Office of State Inspector General provided the necessary investigatory mechanisms to do the work of holding The Virginia Department Of Corrections accountable, however because of the phenomenon of selectivity of whom of We The People are worthy of function from those proximate functionaries, or bureaucrats administering and managing the functions of Virginia's government, of which, the State Inspector General is, Virginia prisoners claims against the Virginia prison official are relatively ignored. There is another category of possessors of secrets of the inner workings of The Commonwealth, whom are the elected representatives of the people or We The People, who also perform the duty of oversight of The Virginia Department of Corrections selectively. For starters, Virginia Code 53.1-30 (A) states what Virginia authorities are allowed entry into Virginia prisons, whom are, The Governor, members of The Legislator and Attorneys. Secondly, our legislators in fulfillment of their oversight duties of The Virginia Department of Corrections have investigative authority into any and all aspects and functions of The Department. So when we see our Political Leaders and Legislators as Delegates Holly Seibold, Marcus Simon, The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, Senators Dave Marsden, Lamont Bagsby, Majority Leader Scott Surovell and Barbara Favola, expressing their conscientiousness, their hand wringing over the barbarity and savagery of The Virginia Department of Corrections on their watch. The question isn't if they have and possess the authority, to wrangle accountability onto The Department and the Virginia prison official, but whether We The People, in whose name good and evil of Government are transfigured will acknowledge complicity and assert that the application of Justice isn't mere petty crass abuse. When Governor Glenn Youngkin, along with The State Inspector General, The Virginia Republican Party as foot soldier and their usual ally corporate media, seized upon the parole matter of a cop killer as critique gambit of parole as fact of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure. The, We The People gawked some in classic understandable ignorance while others as our elected representatives, possessors of the secret or the inner workings of government, averted eyes holding breath that their betrayed constituencies wouldn't call them out.

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