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

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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

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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

VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS ARE LOUD AND CHURLISHLY CRITICAL OVER ANYTHING DEALING WITH THE VIRGINIA PRISONER BECAUSE BECOMING HONEST OVER THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS EXPOSES THEIR HYPOCRISY By William Thorpe

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Let's take this latest stunt by Nicholas Freitas, Republican representative of Virginia's 62d District and his HB 2192 Bill, intended to repeal, the EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT Law, a program designed specifically to incentivize prisoner behavior. The Virginia Prison Official's primary and justifying argument, defining the administration and management of Prison, is that of "maintaining order" and The Supreme Court of The United States has given it constitutional validation in it's precedential ruling in, TURNER v. SAFLEY 482 U.S. 78 and it is expressed in a Virginia State case, BURCH v. COMMONWEALTH 2014 VA.APP.LEXIS 343--"An essential tool of Prison Administrators is the authority to offer inmates various incentives to behave".We also see the primary basis of maintaining order and prisoner behavior in the National SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984.The point is controlling prisoner behavior and the maintenance of order in prison are justifications claimed by the Prison Official. So enactment of Virginia's EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT Law was within the norms of prison management, because it was law designed to incentivize prisoner behavior. Yet since Virginia Republicans assumed political leadership of the Commonwealth in 2022 beginning with Glenn Youngkin becoming Governor, they have been hell bent on repealing it.This cat nip intoxication with repealing the law, speaks of a couple of factors 1) Virginia Republicans would rather have Virginia prisoners misbehaving, with the prison environment a maelstrom of disorder thereby accommodating a talking point and secondly (2) a much longer prison stay due to poor behavior.

Let me excerpt what THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES had to say about such circumstances in the case ROSALES-MIRELES 585 U.S. 129----"To a prisoner", this prospect of additional "time behind bars is not some theoretical or mathematical concept" (BARBER v. THOMAS 560 U.S. 474,504 Kennedy, J .dissenting)"Any amount of actual jail time" is significant (GLOVER v. UNITED STATES 531 US.198,203) and has exceptionally severe consequences for the incarcerated individual [and] for society which bears the direct and indirect costs of incarceration", (UNITED STATES v. JENKIN 854 F.3d 181,192.) The possibility of additional jail time thus warrants serious consideration in a determination whether to exercise discretion.....{IT IS CRUCIAL IN MAINTAINING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT COURTS EXHIBIT REGARD FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPECT FOR PRISONERS "AS PEOPLE" (T. TYLER, WHY PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW 164 (2006) THE RISK OF UNNECESSARY DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY PARTICULARLY UNDERMINES THE FAIRNESS ,INTEGRITY, OR PUBLIC REPUTATION OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS......IN BROAD STROKES THE PUBLIC LEGITIMACY OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM RELIES ON PROCEDURES THAT ARE " NEUTRAL, ACCURATE, CONSISTENT, TRUSTWORTHY AND FAIR", AND THAT "PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ERROR CORRECTION" BOWERS and ROBINSON, PERCEPTION OF FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE:THE SHARED AIMS AND OCCASIONAL CONFLICT OF LEGITIMACY AND MORAL CREDIBILITY 47 WAKE FOREST L.REV.211,215-216--my emphasis in all caps}.What the above excerpt from the finding and ruling from the Supreme Court of The United States in the Rosales-Mireles case outlines,is everything Virginia Republicans and as it relates to this work Nicholas Freitas with his HB 2192,repeal of the EARNED SENTENCE CREDITS law,behavior incentive program for Virginia prisoners, are irrationally against.There is nothing eye opening in the Supreme Courts findings and articulation in the Rosales-Mireles case ,it is, basic commonsense, that there must be buy in, faith and trust from The People or Public in The Social Contract and its terms or simply put, LAW. There isn't a circumstance of our human condition, whether its from the Religious belief and it's suppositionary-Theological context to crass autocracy and its delusions that there isn't a buy-in, or faith in its operative terms. In other words imposition is pure superstition and intoxication. So when for short-sighted, presumptive gain of speculative political authority as parlayed by Nicholas Freitas and his Republican cabal, we see this willingness to mock and delegitimize the very terms of that "Humpty Dumptyesque Center, must-hold" faith, which is in Law or as we are told in Rosales-Mireles,that, "In broad strokes the public legitimacy of our justice system relies on procedures that are "neutral, accurate, consistent, trustworthy and fair,....." ,we cannot ignore the fact that it is our complicity, The People of Virginia,that is enabling the corruption and perversion of "JUSTICE" in the name of The People. Our Federal Government itself recognizes the management of prisoner behavior, see 18 USCS SECTION 3621 (IMPRISONMENT OF A CONVICTED PERSON), also 18 USCS SECTION 3624, (ON GOOD TIME FOR PRISONER GOOD BEHAVIOR).First of all, neither Nicholas Freitas nor his Virginia Republican cabal are omniscient, their ideas are just that, suppositions and speculations, which we clearly see are idealistic, in bad faith and gratuitously cruel. The fact of the matter is, if Virginia's Social Contract, is a construct on incentivizing it's terms, then why would it be perverted in prison?

People, let this sink in, IF VIRGINIA'S SOCIAL CONTRACT IS A CONSTRUCT ON INCENTIVIZING IT'S TERMS, THEN WHY WOULD IT BE PERVERTED IN PRISON? Look, this isn't complicated every aspect of the social contract, as understood, its terms is incentivized, the Political-Economy underpinning is a construct of incentives. Are we then expected to accept that Nicholas Freitas and his Republican ilk are ignorant of the incentivizing motive of the Social Contract? No we know they're not.So why have we historically behaved as if they're then worthy of our collective benefit of the doubt, which is simply complicity through permissiveness. Okay, due to the chattel enslavement of Black people as dynamic of Virginia's political-economy and the subsequent dehumanization, what Virginia was confronted with is that simple maxim, which is, in support and defense of a predicate or original lie, (the enabling logic and its psychology for the enslavement of Black people) more lies, more deception, more distortions has to be indulged. Now after the destruction of the chattel enslavement basis of Virginia's political-economy, by the Civil War. Virginia insidiously recreated, it by simply transferring those dehumanizing attitudes and sentiments on to its imprisoned,(see the 1871 Virginia Supreme Court ruling in RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 Va.790 that the convicted prisoner [is a] slave of the state. I discussed aspects of this in my June 26, 2023 work, EXPLOITING VICTIMS OF CRIMES AND SCAPEGOATING VIRGINIA'S PAROLE PROCESS:THE BACKWARDNESS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 2022).What I'm showing is that straight line from chattel slavery and its dehumanizing distortions to Virginia's imprisonment scheme,with the operative on "dehumanization". Because there isn't any stipulation, any purpose, why dehumanization of the prisoner has to accompany the punishment of imprisonment. Yet, that is exactly what the Nicholas Freitas among us advance, and we see its corrisive anticipations in modern and contemporary Virginia, (see these Virginia Supreme Court cases:VLAMING v. W. POINT SCH.BD.302 Va.504(2023) TAYLOR v. NORTHAM 300 Va.230 (2021) (also Virginia Court of Appeals STEVENS v. COMMONWEALTH 70 Va.App.280(2019).

What we see happening in the greater Virginia society or The Social Contract, is the objectification of hypocrisy, along with compromises of its Constitutionalized aspirations. We see this clearly as a symbiosis of official impunity and public complicity, which inexorably is the last refuge of dictatorial impudence and the abandonment of any pretense towards social progress. So for example during the Great Pandemic of 2020, the polemic hurled by those against Governmental actions, specifically the isolationist and seclusionary confinement of The People in their homes, was its at odds with the natural sociability of the human being. That the isolation of the lockdown was driving people mad, inducing destructive, addictive, self-harm and abusive behaviors. That people were committing suicides, that it was impairing the cognitive functions of the young brain. In other words, isolation and the seclusion of the human being is antithetical to humanness. Now prior to the Great Pandemic lockdown of 2020 the only environment that was systemically and endemically subjected to the antithetical to humanness violence of isolation and seclusion was Prison and it's Solitary Confinement and for this work the Virginia prisoner, held in solitary confinement within the prison cages of The Virginia Department of Corrections. The point I make with the example of The Great Pandemic Lockdown of 2020 is this, the same people who couched their opposition to the Governmental action of isolation and seclusion of The People, with polemics of its hazardous and detrimental nature on humanness, for all the above cited and stated reasons are the same ones who scream the loudest against it's reform and abridging its use in prison and for this work, The Virginia Department of Corrections. Of course their obvious hypocrisy is blatantly apparent, and we see how extraordinarily at odds those minds and hearts are with the findings and determinations of ROSALES-MIRELES where we find the Supreme Court of The United States, underscoring [the] "regard for fundamental rights and respect for prisoners "as people". Now let's fast forward to the latest and recent head scratching consequences of the barbarity and savagery of the Virginia prison official under cover of their Republican Party political allies, that Virginia prisoners are self-immolating, setting themselves on fire as desperate speech in protest of the antithetical to humanness conditions they're subjected to, which are a trillion fold extreme than the isolationary and seclusionary circumstances of the Great Pandemic Lockdown of 2020 which those Republican Party allies of the Virginia prison official, labored mightily in polemicizing it's adverse impact on The People, yet refuse to recognize likewise effects on the Virginia prisoner, thus unconditionally stating their dehumanizing and denigrating intentions. So what do we see The Virginia Department of Corrections doing as response to prisoners in its care and supervision? It came up with an aversive and punitive scheme, under a purported "SAFETY AGREEMENT", using "FOOD, OUTSIDE EXERCISE OR RECREATION, PROGRAMMING, ACCESS TO T.V AND NEWS, e.t.c. Now let me bring this to the readers attention, The Virginia Department of Corrections formulates its purported "SAFETY AGREEMENT" within or on the speculation that prisoners self-immolating are a mental-health condition as such it's response is a mental health treatment. Now besides the incongruity of such a conclusion, considering that the prisoners have rationally stated that the speech of immolation is a response to the barbarity and savagery of the conditions of confinement. So it responds with using FOOD, as treatment?

By William Thorpe

Dear XYZ Team Inmates are being coerced into signing a so-called “safety agreement” By Kimberly Zittlow

I am writing to bring to your immediate attention a deeply troubling practice currently taking place at Red Onion State Prison. Inmates are being coerced into signing a so-called “safety agreement” where they pledge not to engage in self-harm in exchange for basic necessities such as food rewards and access to power. Those who refuse to sign are punished by having their power shut off in their cells—a clear act of retaliation and psychological abuse.

Attached to this email are copies of the coerced agreements, with all identifying information redacted to protect the inmates from retaliation by Red Onion staff and administration. I have also provided a link to a detailed write-up exposing this horrifying policy:

https://shorturl.at/rdyRU 

This policy not only highlights the ongoing abuse and neglect within Red Onion State Prison but also raises serious concerns regarding the violation of fundamental human rights and constitutional protections. Rather than addressing the root causes of these inmates’ despair, the administration is weaponizing basic human needs as leverage to suppress suicide attempts.

I urge the Humanization Project to investigate this matter, advocate for these inmates, and hold those responsible accountable for these blatant abuses. The inmates at Red Onion State Prison are being subjected to psychological torture under the guise of “suicide prevention,” and they desperately need a voice to expose this inhumanity.

Please let me know if there is any additional information or support I can provide. I am committed to assisting in any way possible to bring this issue to light and ensure that the inmates at Red Onion receive the humane treatment they are entitled to.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Zittlow 

THE QUESTION ISNT LAWS JUST BECAUSE, BUT FOR EXAMPLE WHEN VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS, I.E NICHOLAS FREITAS AND TONY O. WILT PROPOSE STUFF THAT WILL ONLY HAVE A FUTURE OF RIDICULE AND REPEAL, THEY MUST DEFEND IT BECAUSE THE IDEA THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT WAS ONLY A SUPERSTITIOUS INTOXICANT By William Thorpe

Nick Freitas

Who is Nicholas Freitas, so for starters he's a Virginia Republican representing, the 62d District, in other words he has a specific group of Virginians that he speaks for because a majority voted for him. Irrespective of whether it is a resolved majority or that antagonistic slice endemic of what passes for the will of the people, or the superstitions intoxicant of, the might is right indulgence of our deceitful and fraudulent politics. So during this 2025 session of Virginia's General Assembly, Mr. Freitas introduced a Bill, HB 2192 intended to repeal THE EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT law, a good time program, intended to incentivize behavior of the Virginia prisoner, which The Commonwealth of Virginia has spoken through its Virginia Department of Corrections, is a primary penological pursuit. Before I continue let me clearly define what Mr. Freitas action by introducing HB 2192 is and as a former U.S. Army Special Forces operator understood, that it is a continuum of the Virginia Republicans' war on the and scape-goating of the Virginia prisoner. When we speak and expose the petty machinations against the Virginia prisoner of those Virginians, who label themselves Republicans and conservative Democrats, our work isn't anymore against "Justice" and making the harmed whole, than the biblical Solomon was a proponent of infanticide because of his determination that a baby, a child should be hacked in two halves to expose the ala Virginia Republicans and conservative Democrats petty machinations of the lying woman of 1 KINGS 3:16-27.But as the story instructs,it was work at wrestling accountability on this interactive, intersectional and interrelationship of our human condition. Now this is what is ridiculously insulting, Mr. Freitas and his Republican cabal claim to advance the affairs, progressive development and full realization of The People of Virginia under the encompassing process of equality under law, to the point of savagely dehumanizing and denying the humanness of the Virginia prisoner, yet we see them in the full fledged embrace, endorsing and support of short of Benedict Arnold, the most corrupt American to ever grace the National stage, the 34 felony count convicted current president of the United States Donald Trump. Sō what law and pursuit of "public safety" are we talking about that Nicholas Freitas is preaching to his 62d District constituency that repealing Virginia's EARNED SENTENCE CREDIT program in its prison system advances? when despite the fact that we have forever known and understood that the haranguing of "law and order" this and "law and order" that, by in particular The Republican Party was euphemism and diversionary speech in the employ of "supremacism",it was still cloaked and hedged in a manner for the main stream media and the intelligentsia to "hee and ahem" that it wasn't, but with this obscene and corrupt spectacle of Donald Trump, the entire history of our human condition has witnessed that Law in America and Virginia (thanks to our "Dear leader" Governor Glenn Youngkin, cavorting with Trump) is just that a contrivance in the employ of supremacy and its intellectual-liberalism. 

So what is so wrong, so destabilizing wrong to the Virginia body politic, about the existence of the EARNED SENTENCE CREDITS Law and program for Virginia Prisoners, serving the purpose of incentivizing behavior, which The Commonwealth of Virginia states is its Constitutional and penological purpose of its Virginia Department of Correction's imprisonment scheme, that Mr. Freitas, finds so offensive, so harmful to The People of Virginia, that he stands for its repeal?. This historical fetishistic cat nip logic pursued by Virginia Republicans over the Virginia prisoner is idealistic at best and fraudulent at worst. Because, first of all without rhyme or reason Virginia Republicans abolished parole for the Virginia prisoner in 1995, under the most spurious arguments ever presented on the floors of Virginia's General Assembly, besides those of Virginia's slave holding class, i.e Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and co.defending chattel enslavement of human life. Well we have had 30 years worth of empirical facts that the abolishment of parole was just that, another typical Virginian exercise and example of its inability to get out of its own way of gratuitous cruelty. The existence of Parole as part and aspect of the criminal justice system and it's adjudication, despite its speculative formulations, is at least a honest statement by the aspirations of Social Contract, that the authority of the criminal justice system, is redemptive, that the pursuit of "Justice" and its endeavor to make whole the harmed isn't a hubristic enterprise, at the expense of the fallibility of The Social Contract. So in its recognition and if terms of The Social Contract are not to be reduced to a Sisyphean Hatfield and McCoy perpetual feud, then there has to be a civilizing release value within the adjudicative processes of the criminal justice system of which parole is a form.

Tony O Wilt

When we define the "Thought" of the Republican and the conservative-Democrat as Intellectual-liberalism, it's function crassly-idealistic, superficial, farcial, hypocritical, delusionary and just another fraudulent affection. We find this Virginia Republican, representing Virginia's 34th District, Tony O. Wilt and his Bill HB 2363 for the 2025 session of Virginia's General Assembly, advancing the suggestive-proposition that in order for The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia, to fulfill the aspirations of Article 1 Section 1:EQUALITY AND RIGHTS OF MAN of The Constitution of Virginia, what is needed is more people with "sheriff or law-enforcement" powers/authority. So Mr. Wilt's HB 2363 wants The Virginia Department of Corrections to designate employees who will have police powers and authority, "to [enforce] the criminal laws of the Commonwealth". Now let's get all into it, besides the obvious conflict of interest of prison officials, whose livelihood depends on people imprisoned, having authority to now go on seek and search missions to fill up prison cells and cages. We now will have Virginia prison officials unleashed on an unsuspecting citizenry and public, turning The Commonwealth of Virginia into a defacto Police State. Considering that The Virginia Department of Corrections is Virginia's largest agency and were Tony O. Wilt's HB 2363 to become law, we'd have thousands of prison officials, replicating and perpetrating the harms and horrors, doing what they do to the Virginia prisoner, to and on the Virginia citizenry. The Virginia Department of Corrections is the same agency that in its professional wisdom creates circumstances and conditions that prisoners in its care and supervision set themselves on fire or self-immolate as desperate speech in protest. Now here is another rub, Republicans and conservative-Democrats, seem not to appreciate the irony of their affection for or are glibly hypocritical over their advancement of the regulatory utility of Police and law enforcement, while undermining it at the expense of their advocacy for it's lack,its absence and deregulation within the terms of the political-economy and it's accountability, or to be specific the application of the powers of the Police and Law enforcement in it's regulation. So what we see is Republicans as Tony O. Wilt and the conservative-Democrat clamoring for less Police and policing within Commerce and Business, where quite frankly commission of crimes and deviances within it's spheres are a trillion fold more destructive on Virginia society, The People and The Social Contract than the criminality filling Virginia prison cells and cages, which is what Mr. Wilt and his Republican compadres eye. So what do we have? We have a couple of Virginia politicians, Nicholas Freitas, representing the 62 District and Tony O. Wilt representing the 34 District and their constituencies, a minor slice of Virginia telling us, the rest of Virginia that despite the fact the Commonwealth argues in Courts that promoting good behavior among the prisoner population is a Constitutional and penological interest of its Virginia Department of Corrections imprisonment scheme and if there is a law, EARNED SENTENCE CREDITS, for the specific purpose of incentivizing prisoner behavior, what insanity then would labor for its repeal ? Then in what social construct is pushing for more Cops, more Law enforcement, positive? Yet thats what Tony O. Wilt exploiting the privileges entrusted in him by his 34th District would have us think.

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