Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: April 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025

THE ELECTORAL OR VOTING PROCESS IN VIRGINIA IS A TOOL, WITH EMPHASIS ON HOLDING THE PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By William Thorpe



Stuff always bears repeating, especially, when its challenging orthodoxy, when such orthodoxy is just another one of the Human Conditions' suppositions parading as irrefutable and unconditional dicta and despite the fact that orthodoxy and suppositions exist in all aspects and facets of society and its Social Contract, what this work focuses on is the role, relationship and interaction such orthodoxy and the subsequent suppositions have on the work of prison reform in Virginia. A quick aside just because this work will be Virginia specific isn't to imply or assume that, Virginia is unique, because it sure as hell isn't. The Commonwealth of Virginia has its share of organized and concerted voices saying "NO" to the perversions and violations of the State's organized violence done in their name and that of those honest Virginians. Which they seek and pursue its reform or repair and we see this, correctly in the focus on Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Virginia Department of Correction. To some the very word, "reform "is in itself lacking, wanting and a sell out, because they are, as a majority of our ancients were, caught up in the idealism of the "tool" or means instead of purpose and the consequences of this tension, is the corollary and accompanying distortion as lack of clarity, in its context of, actually laying bare, or as some of our ancients also, understood, that other tool of narrowing or sharpening focus. So here we are in Virginia dealing with the perversions, violations by, and incorrigibility of The Virginia Department of Corrections and its Prison Official, yet the focus isn't correctly on the governance of The Commonwealth, specifically The Governor or Executive who is responsible for The Virginia Department of Corrections, his allies and the political thought or Party supporting such thinking and its suppositions. Subsequently there isn't sharpened focus on the complicity, in their silence of all of the pillars or foundational support of The Commonwealth, from the respectability of its Business or Commercial enterprises, to its Educational and Religious Institutions. In otherwards the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reform of the prison system, is being done by affirming the same narrative it otherwise is challenging broadly and generally without the necessary specificity of focus, as I've described, on The Government and governance of Virginia.

.First of all, the Virginia Electoral Process is a multimillion dollar business, I say this to emphasize that whether or not its objectives or purposes are speculative or practical, it is a highly valued and prized endeavor, in otherwards has a basic and fundamental purpose that despite critique is independent of criticism, meaning its acquisition is based on a clear grasp of purpose, (which in its absence or when there isn't its clear and practical grasp, brings on that disillusionment and ensuing apathy) which brings me to its import and relevance on the question of holding the prison official accountable and reform of The Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison system. What I'm saying is the work of accountability in Virginia's Justice Infrastructure is matter of factly, electoral. The Social Contract and it's terms or governance in general is a debate or argument of sets of facts, which is held amongst The People or as it relates to this work, The People of Virginia. There is nothing insightful about what I'm saying, other than the fact that, there isn't that revealed and articulated requisite recognition of purpose. When purpose or the why of a vote cast in the electoral process is actually understood within and on the terms that it is the very expression of "the peoples cognitive inalienability", in other words our expressed intelligence. Meaning there is nothing more revelatory of " the peoples cognitive inalienability "than on matters of terms of society or, Government, which is simply defined by BLACK'S LAW as: The structure of principles and rules determining how a state or organization is regulated, then the next factor is Law and its definition as: The regime that orders human activities and relations through systematic application of the force of politically organized society, or through social pressure, backed by force, in such a society the legal system <respect and obey the law> as such there is nothing more electorally necessary and essential than a clear, concise and definitive position on what The People of Virginia expect of and anticipate from their prison official and the prison system they administer and govern. What have The People of Virginia come to learn of and about from, the acts done by the Virginia prison official in their name? For one The People of Virginia are learning that acts done by their prison officials are causing, the Virginia prisoner to SELF-IMMOLATE, yup set themselves on fire, prisoners are being subjected to conditions abjectly extreme than those of the general publics 'insufferable covid lockdowns, prisoners are assaulted, sexually and corporally by the Virginia prison official as attested to by innumerable court cases, these are just to name a few with the point being, the Virginia prison official acts above the law because the existing and dominant electoral process permits, allows and enables them, its on The People of Virginia to change it, with a change in their vote.

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

Sunday, April 20, 2025

FAMILY IS SACROSANCT, THEN WHY IS THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, DESPITE ITS MISSION STATEMENT OF FOSTERING FAMILY TIES WITH THE VIRGINIA PRISONER WAGING WAR ON THE FAMILY? By William Thorpe




Yeah, yeah, yeah Family is sacrosanct right? So did we need a Mission Statement from The Virginia Department of Corrections to tell us that? Did we need the in theory and practice of The Commonwealth of Virginias' most anti-family of all anti-family structures to co-opt the unconditional and without conditions utility of that most basic and affirming foundation of our Human Condition, our Universal human condition, The Family as camouflage, as cover for its continuum of misanthropy? Well that is exactly what The People of Virginia through their Department of Corrections have and are doing. The Family as a thing, a living organic thing has been under attack in Virginia since Justices of The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled in their (1871) RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA.790, that Virginia prisoners were (and I paraphrase) everything but human. The perfidy and insidiousness of the 1871 RUFFIN ruling is, it came on the heels of The Nations most destructive and life costing war, The Civil War, a war which for all purposes and intent was waged and fought to destroy and correct that most anti-family of practices, the "chattel" enslavement of Black People and it's functional and defacto negation of The Family as basic and foundational unit of The Human Condition, because during the approximate Three Hundred year, Virginia "chattel" enslavement of Black People, those White enslavers, beneficiaries and their support functionaries had enacted law and its prohibitions, specifically making Black People and Family anathema and illegal. So despite the conditional repudiation and quasi rejection of the RUFFIN ruling, by later Courts, the sentiments and intent of the RUFFIN ruling are still alive and fully entrenched in The Commonwealth of Virginias' habits and governing practices as a universal prejudice against ALL Virginia Families. So what started in the 1600's as a tool, a mechanism of enslaving Black People, by denying Black People, The prerogatives and motive of The Family structure is now a comprehensive and composite fact impacting ALL VIRGINIANS 

This is not a brain spinning, mind convoluting dichotomous consequence to grasp,because that age old oriental adage,"when one goes to slay the Dragon, don't become one yourself",encapsulates this denigration and negation of The Virginia Family completely. We see it in this inexplicable blind-eyed ignorance, an inevitable spill over into the disrespect of The Family of The Virginia Prisoner, by the mindless attitude of the Virginia Prison Official all under the euphemistic axiom of "public safety", which in practice is just another dehumanizing factoid of terms of Virginia's Social Contract. Well we reject it. We begin with: The Virginia Prisoner, is just that, an imprisoned Virginian. The practice of, and the utilization of Imprisonment, in a Society, as our ancients have lectured, instructed and advised, is an expression of our collective, honesty, an expression of repairing harm.

The focus of this work isn't to critique Imprisonment as form of repairing harm. But instead it confronts Virginia's form of imprisonment and it's scheme on Family as an organic entity, with focus on highlighting the crass petty reality of it's exploitation by the prison official of The Virginia Department of Corrections. Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the Justice Infrastructure it represents and reflects is, by all accounts and analysis, the highest, the Magnum Opus of Virginia's Social Contract, the qualitative conclusions of its social productivity and development. For one in Virginia prisons do we see the unmasked and unfiltered understanding and acceptance of what is the Virginian Human, by its governing elements or the human embodiments of what are virtually "state secrets" or that which governance in Virginia actually is. In other words to hell with the fake, phony and put on respect accorded the Virginian in public, if you really wanna know and understand how deep or shallow are Virginia's grasp of those "self evident truths" then pay attention and scrutinize The Commonwealth of Virginia's behavior in its prisons by its Prison Official because thats where we will begin to realize that those "self evident truths" are just that costumes and affections, put on for public consumption. So if what we encounter in Virginia prisons are, prison officials behaving savagely and barbarously, then it goes to say that the quintessential fact, the "state secret" or that wizard behind the curtain of The Commonwealth of Virginia is the animus of savagery and barbarism. Secondly,The Virginia Department of Corrections is The Commonwealth's, largest agency. The People of Virginia give its Department of Corrections and the Prison Official the most money, meaning of all other embodiments of the will of The People of Virginia, its Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment scheme is the most valued and prized, which is to say in the operations of its prison system are The People of Virginia accurately seen and revealed. Now I'm not being tongue in cheek or facetious, because the average Virginian will sure as hell vehemently disagree with me and the proposition that the reflection of their essence is to be found in the savage, barbarous, lawless, gratuitously cruel and extra-judicial behavior of the Virginia Prison Official, who acts in their name and that is the point.

Virginia's Social Contract through it's, as the Great Berhane Selassie or Bob Marley would say "uniforms of brutality" or it's Prison Official, has appropriated the credibility, validity and legitimacy of the Virginia Family as a pseudo mitigating tool, as cover for its dehumanizing and degenerate work against the Virginia prisoner.The work then, for The People of Virginia, is to reclaim what is "Family", on their own terms apart from and without any presumptive hectoring, any sham lecturing from the Virginia Prison Official, whose only purpose,is to, under cover of professing to underscore the significance and necessity of " Family" in the life of the Virginia prisoner, is to destroy it. Is it requisite for imprisonment to relatively destroy, that fundamental fact of what is Family? Convention and commonsense would, without any hesitancy respond with a primal hell no !!, however I leave that to the intellectualization and its debate of what the people of Virginia, without the distortions of colloquial suppositions, expect of their Justice Infrastructure, in its process of repairing harm. What I speak to are the perversions, distortions, antagonistic and contradictory self-serving proclamations from the Virginia prison official of the "public good" of their practical attacks and opposition to what Family means to the life of The Virginia Prisoner.

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

Sunday, April 13, 2025

VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS USING LAW TO IMPRISON THE VIRGINIA PRISONER WHILE BREAKING THE LAW IN THE TREATMENT, THE EGREGIOUS VIRGINIA CASE OF BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 Va. App. LEXIS 550.




IN 2019 MR. CONRAD BURKE, A VIRGINIA PRISONER IMPRISONED AT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (or VADOC) POCAHONTAS STATE CORRECTIONAL CENTER WAS SUJECTED TO CONDITIONS OF IMPRISONMENT THAT WERE NOT PART OF LAW UNDER WHICH THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA SENTENCED HIM TO PRISON. YET VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS ACTING ABOVE THE LAW TOOK IT UPON THEMSELVES TO BREAK THE LAW, BY VIOLATING IT IN THEIR TREATMENT OF MR.BURKE AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM, VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS BEING ABOVE LAW. THIS IS WHAT MR.BURKE EXPERIENCED, HE STATED THAT POCAHONTAS STATE CORRECTIONAL CENTER OFFICER JAMES POORE LIED AND FABRICATED CLAIMS AGAINST HIM IN RETALIATION BECAUSE HE EXERCISED HIS VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT BY FILING GRIEVANCE AGAINST OFFICER POORE. AS A RESULT OF OFFICER POORE'S LIES AND FABRICATION A NUMBER OF POCAHONTAS STATE CORRECTIONAL CENTER OFFICERS, BOBBY DYE, DAVID SMITH, JEREMY REMINES, ROGER HYLTON AND ROBERT STINE, TOLD PRISONER BURKE ON FEBRUARY 22, 2019 THAT POCAHONTAS STATE CORRECTIONAL CENTER WARDEN STANLEY YOUNG HAD INSTRUCTED THEM TO, HOG TIE HIM. (HOGTYING IS A WIDELY USED MEANS OF INFLICTING PAIN ON THE VIRGINIA PRISONER BY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IN ITS PRISONS, WHERE THE PRISONER IS FIRST STRIPPED ONLY TO BOXERS, HANDCUFFED, A BLACK BOX PLACED OVER THE CUFFS, THEN BARE LEGS SHACKLED, A SHORT CHAIN HOOKED TO THE CUFFS,THEN SHACKLES AND PULLED, SO THE PRISONER STAYS IN A DOUBLED AND BENT OVER POSITION FOR LONG HOURS).SO THIS IS WHAT WARDEN STANLEY YOUNG TOLD THE AFOREMENTIONED OFFICERS TO DO TO PRISONER BURKE AND HE WAS LEFT IN THE HOG TIED POSITION FOR 21 HOURS.HOG TYING A HEALTHY PERSON IS A SAVAGE AND BARBAROUS DEED. BUT PRISONER BURKE ISNT HEALTHY, HE SUFFERS FROM EXTREME THORACIC SCOLIOSIS AND OTHER DEBILITATING DISEASES, WHICH AS A RESULT WAS WHY HE WAS AT THE POCAHONTAS PRISON, SO HE COULD HAVE A SPECIAL MEDICAL CELL. SO THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIALS OPERATING THE POCAHONTAS PRISON WERE FULLY AWARE OF MR. BURKE'S MEDICAL CONDITION AND THAT SUBJECTING HIM TO HOG TYING WAS CRUELTY, PURE AND SIMPLE. READ MORE OF MR. BURKE'S CASE AT 2024 Va. App. LEXIS 550. SOMETHING ELSE THATS UNSETTLING ABOUT MR. BURKE'S EXPERIENCE IS THIS, JUDGE RICHARD C. PATTERSON OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TAZEWELL COUNTY ACTUALLY DISMISSED HIS CLAIMS AND IT TOOK THE VIRGINIA COURT OF APPEALS TO TELL JUDGE PATTERSON THAT HE WAS WRONG ON THE LAW. LET ME STATE THIS MR, BURKE'S EXPERIENCES ARE NOT EXCEPTIONS.THE THING IS OUR VIRGINIA MEDIA ISNT TELLING US WHAT OUR PRISON OFFICIALS ARE DOING IN OUR NAME BUT WE MUST KNOW SO WE CAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, NO ONE IS ABOVE LAW, ESPECIALLY THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL.

By vapac

Thursday, April 10, 2025

ON VOTING AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA. By William Thorpe

Let me begin with:THERE ARE A LOT OF VIRGINIANS WITH STAKE IN THE CONDITION AND SITUATION OF VIRGINIA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMPRISONMENT SCHEME WHO PERPLEXEDLY EXPRESS DISILLUSIONMENT AND IN SOME EXTREME INSTANCES ARE VISCERALLY ANTIPATHETIC TO VIRGINIA'S ELECTORAL PROCESS IN GENERAL AND MORE POINTEDLY VOTING, AS SUCH ARE EFFECTIVELY IN OPPOSITION TO THEIR VERY OWN CRITIQUE OF VIRGINIA'S SOCIAL CONTRACT AND ITS CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMPRISONMENT SCHEME.....So I begin, this isn't intended as a tutorial or apology for electoral processes and its voting specificity, but I will simply state the obvious which is regardless of governmental process,VOTING is an intrinsic lattice and regardless of amounts of disruptions and dissolutions, once the dust clears, we return to THE VOTE and VOTING as manner of SPEECH, which is how and with which the voter or THE PEOPLE express their understanding and pursuits of the necessary and affirming conditions and circumstances for their existence and lives, so in so many words the more efficient the vote or specifically the speech, the better suited conditions then are for progress and there isn't a facet of Virginia's Social Contract than its criminal justice and imprisonment scheme that is in dire need of the reformative process of progress and the subsequent enlightenment. So it is perplexing to encounter the sort of undermining the electoral process and VOTING, positions taken up by a type of Virginian, despite the fact,that on the one hand they are heavily invested, by the fact of their enormous and inordinate labor expenditures in exposing and critiquing the failings and violations of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the corruption of it's Virginia Department of Corrections, in the reformation of those compromising and violative terms of The Social Contract,that are expressed in the "above the law" hubris and presumptions of the Virginia Prison Official, which its existences ironically, is cause and festers the voter apathy and disillusionment this work confronts. Now let me unequivocally state that all that is wrong with Virginia's imprisonment scheme and its Department of Corrections is because of the electoral process and the VOTE. Let's take the abolishment of Parole, which was a direct result of the electoral process and how certain Virginians voted and for whom they voted, specifically Republicans. Or let's take this current struggle to hold the prison official accountable at Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, which again is a consequence of the electoral process, because strange as some might find this, yet its all archived, Red Onion State Prison shouldn't even exist were Virginians paying attention because a review by THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COMMITTEE of The Virginia General Assembly in 1985 had specifically told Virginians that after the issues that plagued the State's then Mecklenburg Prison, never again should Virginia pull a stunt as it had with Mecklenburg Prison by purporting to confine and warehouse a supposed type of prisoner at one prison, yet due to the VOTE, Republicans in 1995 ignored those conclusions and under the disgraced racist Governor George Allen gave the State two SUSSEX STATE PRISONS, I AND II, THEN RED ONION AND WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS all under the hard sell of providing jobs for rural and economically depressed areas of The Commonwealth and that are the consequences of THE VOTE.

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