SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA III By William Thorpe

In I and II of this fundamental component of prison reform in Virginia, I stated the obvious which is all social facts are SPEECH which in turn is packaged and organized as Politics. However just as there are two sides to social facts and realities, politics and its practice has its two sides when it confronts anything that is questioning, challenging and calling out its status quo, meaning requiring reform or change and nothing spells this out more than, Prison Reform in Virginia. So what we see in Virginia are the unimpeachable, irrefutable and indisputable facts of the corruption and impunity of the Virginia prison official as witnessed by the prisoner, families of the prisoner, some prison officials, even certain conscientious victims of crime, revelations at pseudo over sight hearings, post-event investigatory reports. Then we have compendium, chronicles of Court action upon Court action documenting, detailing the savagery and barbarity of the Virginia prison official done under the political partisanship permissiveness of the people of Virginia. All of which express and exhibit that inchoate murmurings of injustice that is ever present as lattice of the Social Contract, which is rendered inchoate by the type of and side of politics practiced by a type and sort of reform advocacy. Now the basis for prison reform as I've already stated are an exhaustive existence of facts that are unbiased and nonpartisan, I mean the event of a Virginia prison official racially slurring a prisoner, is a fact, irrespective and regardless of sophistry of defense conjured up by the Virginia Attorney Generals Office, who legally represents offending prison officials. So if the event(s) anchoring and underpinning the narrative of prison reform are social facts meaning it is accessible to all, then the reform narrative should reflect that. In other words, prison reform in Virginia should command the moral authority of civic responsibility upon the simple proposition that the prison official of all, must be a paragon of compliance with law and this requires an energetic SPEECH. So let's take the case of JAMYCHEAL MITCHELL and the words of Judge REBECCA BEACH SMITH instructive and illustrative of SPEECH.

I want to excerpt certain salient comments by U.S.DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, NORFOLK DIVISION, REBECCA BEACH SMITH IN THE CASE OF ADAMS v. NAPHCARE INC. 2019 U.S DIST.LEXIS 45534, dealing with the incident of JAMYCHEAL MITCHELL, who was arrested for allegedly shoplifting $5.05 worth of pop and snacks from a 7-Eleven on April 22, 2015 and his subsequent death in a Virginia State Hospital on August 19, 2015 in his own feces and bodily fluids after wasting away from his original arrest weight of 180lbs to 144lbs, because a State Judge Morton V. Whitlow upon the realization that Mr. Jamycheal Mitchell required mental health care for competency to go through the due process of law due to the alleged $5.05 shoplifting, ordered him to a Virginia State hospital, which became Mr. Mitchell's death sentence, thereby becoming another unimpeachable, irrefutable and undeniable fact of prison reform in Virginia. I now excerpt what Judge Rebecca Beach Smith had to say and its role in the SPEECH OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA. She wrote in her opinion in the above cited case....."WHILE INSTITUTIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN THIS MATTER REMAINS WOEFULLY LACKING, THE CASE AND RESULTING SETTLEMENT AT LEAST BRING ABOUT SHARPENED FOCUS ON, AND HEIGHTENED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF, THE PROBLEMS OF INCARCERATING MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS. ONE RESULT OF THIS HEIGHTENED AWARENESS WAS THE ENACTMENT OF THE JAMYCHEAL MITCHELL LAW IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. see act of March 24, 2017 (*JAMYCHEAL MITCHELL LAW*), CH 759,2017 Va acts 1383 (codified as amended at Va.Cod Ann.sec.53.1-2,53.2-5,53.1-127 (2013 and Supp.2018),and codified at Va. Code Ann. 53.1-69.1 (Supp.2018) ( New Virginia Code sec.53.1-69.1 OUTLINES PROCEDURES FOR THE "[R]EVIEW OF DEATH OF INMATES IN LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES).THE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT OF THE PROBLEMS OF ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES THROUGH CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES APPEARS NOW TO BE AN ONGOING ISSUE OF PUBLIC CONCERN. CONSEQUENTLY, THIS CASE AND THE RESULTING SETTLEMENT, TOGETHER WITH CONTINUED EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE SYSTEMIC BUREAUCRATIC AND INDIVIDUAL FAILURES THAT LED TO MR. MITCHELL'S SHAMEFUL DEATH, DO GIVE IMPORTANCE AND MEANING TO HIS LEGACY."....." ALL THIS BEING SAID, THE LACK OF HUMAN DECENCY SHOWN MR. MITCHELL CAN NEVER BE RECTIFIED. THIS CASE EPITOMIZES THE MAXIM "MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN" ROBERT BURNS, MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN A DIRGE (1784)(MAN INHUMANITY TO MAN MAKES THOUSANDS MOURN").[All that I've excerpted are from Rebecca Beach Smith, Federal Judge].Now I continue with the work of SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA, what I've excerpted from Rebecca Beach Smith makes all our points from all basis and perspectives, because a careful read and study of her opinion and the entire incident of Mr. Mitchell, through Virginia's legislature coining a law in his name makes the point of all that we state, as it presents us with the question, what exactly is our Judge Smith telling us.

.I do like what Judge Smith had to say in her opinion and ruling, not because she is giving us original insight, but she ties up so neatly, what I'm saying with this SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA work. I remember the Jamycheal Mitchell incident, but when one is a member of a target group and demographic as I am, Jamycheal Mitchell's experiences are the fabric of the Black American experience, Nationally and of course in Virginia, which I can objectively say, state and declare is its historical and antecedent architect, so yes I paid attention to Mr. Mitchell's situation not as an academic indulgence but as another revelatory yard stick of the industrialization of the administration of impunity and lack of accountability. I begin: the details of the Jamycheal Mitchell incident allege, shoplifting of $5.05 worth of pop and snacks from a 7-Eleven, so a State Judge did what law and common practices suggested, he placed Mr. Mitchell on the multimillion Dollar assembly line of Virginia's State Hospital operations, which is what Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, characterized in her opinion with....."[T]his case and the resulting settlement, together with continued efforts to improve the systemic bureaucratic and individual failures that led to Mr. Mitchell's shameful death". I do have to say this, I recognize and realize the effort in Judge Smith's writings, imbued with the integrity of her sense of self and the affront the Jamycheal Mitchell incident presents to her but then I'm also reminded of a letter President Dwight Eisenhower is alleged to have written about the horrors he witnessed upon liberating Nazi death camps, to which he supposedly observed that and I paraphrase, that he never thought such levels of mans depravity and inhumanity to man existed. Of course Eisenhower was rocked by what he encountered in those Nazi death camps, just as Judge Smith was rocked as she said in her 30 years of being a Federal Judge by the Jamycheal Mitchell incident, still though the honesty of our sense of self and morality isn't based on how shocked or rocked by terms of a human condition which for whatever reason we never actually and really paid attention to its effrontery and incredulity till we are subjected to its accounting. Because what America did President Dwight Eisenhower grow up in that the horrors of a Nazi death camp in the 20th century became his measure of mans depravity to fellow man? Wasn't the disembowelment of the enslaved pregnant Black woman as punishment by the enslaver horrific? or wasn't all those laws and State Constitutions declaring chattel enslavement of Black People horrific enough, I mean what is worse the fact that the Eisenhowers of the world didn't have the presence of mind to recognize the pure unadulterated depravity and horrors of Jim Crow segregation, that banality is an insidious corruption hypocritizing that sense of self, till one is shocked with the graphic.

Judge Smith despite her herculean professional efforts is unable to conceal that inherent lawlessness and impunity of a system that birthed Jamycheal Mitchell and then subsequently administered his demise and death. We see this with her initial declaration, "While institutional and individual accountability in this matter remain woefully lacking,...." and what I find instructive and revealing with Judge Smith's comments, is this inherent systemic lawlessness and impunity displayed by Mr. Mitchell's experience isn't an aberration or anomaly, but is the natural character of a Social Contract and its status quo that accepts it as that profane "cost benefit analysis ". In so many words, yes Magna Carta wrestled recognition from King John, but despite the passage of millennia, that dismissive, dictatorial and supremacist tendency, is in principle an operative term of the Social Contract and human condition and is still with us. Just as it was herculean for Judge Smith, it is herculean for the emergence of the necessary type of politics, to make accountability not an exception and herculean but a natural and common state, which she recognized with her..." All this being said, the lack of human decency shown Mr. Mitchell can never be rectified...... ".What Judge Smith allows us to face up to, which is what this work on SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA enables is, the debate isn't about the political-economic interest of Virginia's imprisonment scheme post The Commonwealth's defeat in The Civil War, in other words the focus isn't on that back door reintroduction of unremunerated labor post Civil War, but now that The Commonwealth's imprisonment scheme is formulated under the "politics of public safety and its partisan exploitation", we disagree with Judge Smith with her posit in her opinion.." The review and oversight of the problems of addressing mental health issues through correctional facilities appears now to be an ongoing issue of public concern".Our disagreement has a historical character because,".....the problems of addressing mental health issues through correctional facilities appears now to be an ongoing issue of public concern "., isn't new, a serious amount and percentage of Virginians have as long as I've been imprisoned by the Commonwealth exerted enormous amount of energy decrying its antagonistic circumstance. What is a correct assessment is Virginia's status quo are incapable of staking no other position than that expressed by Judge Smith and we see this because despite the conditions and circumstances at Virginia prisons proper and not mere local facilities inducing and causing an unacceptable amount of suicides, the JAMYCHEAL MITCHELL LAW, which Judge Smith extols and touts as a positive and responsive outcome of Mr. Mitchell dying in his feces and bodily fluids ONLY extends to Virginia local facilities and Jails. In other words even as Virginia's legislature makes the cursory noises of recognizing Mr. Mitchell's humanness, it cannot bring itself to hold The Virginia Department of Corrections and its State facilities accountable under the rubric of MITCHELL'S LAW, thus making a mockery of its own actions, and its this type of politics and its partisan narrative we must change for Reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. What we do welcome from Judge Rebecca Beach Smith is her subtle indication, recognizing that bureaucracy and systemic and I add intransigence are mere symptoms of the political and that as I've noted ties in neatly with our recognition and assertion that the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reforming the Virginia prison system is with THE SPEECH OF POLITICS.

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

SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA l l By William Thorpe

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In the first part of this work I stated the obvious, which is reform and correction of Virginia's Prison System and it's Virginia Department Of Corrections is specifically and primarily, Political, because the Political is fundamentally SPEECH and all and everything that is offensive about the egregious and malfeasant behavior of the Virginia Prison Official is because of Politics as such to correct the violations of The Virginia Department of Corrections, it takes the speech of politics. But the Virginia voter has been groomed to accept that the only type of politics and speech surrounding the Virginia prisoner is that of demonization and scapegoating. So what happens is that adage of not checking out a gift horse in the mouth, when Virginia politicians, particularly Republicans, start raving about crime, prisoners and ad hoc, if only the Virginia Prison Official is allowed to brutalize the prisoner more, responses as if brutality, savagery, barbarity and all sorts of deviousness, which to quote THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, which Virginia is under its Jurisdiction, in the case WILLIAMS v. BENJAMIN 77 F.3d 756 "MANKIND HAS DEVISED SOME TORTURES THAT LEAVE NO LASTING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF INJURY", dealing with prison officials gassing prisoners with harmful mace and not allowing it to be washed off, are not already hallmarks of prison official, behavior. The politics of prison reform in Virginia requires and demands a honest narrative of crime, justice and the imprisonment scheme, meaning its scapegoating air must be denied to those politicians whose only contribution to the SOCIAL CONTRACT, is crass exploitation. 

There hasn't been an accounting of Virginia's applied Justice practices and what I mean with this is, in the absence of a clear, defined intention and expectation, that "x" amount of dehumanization and savaging of the Virginia prisoner will result in "y" realization, then the application of justice and its practice in Virginia is just another asocial and presumptive summary act under and accorded another name because it is done by THE STATE OR COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. Of course none of this is news. The Social Contract, when confronted honestly without that axiom of the road to hell is paved with good intentions blah,blah,blah, without that oafish corruption of exactitude, certitude, zealotry, dogma and the inevitable Steve Urkelian, "did I do that" destruction, is integrally practical enough to realize the constructiveness of enlightenment and its progress. Meaning Cave Man had the necessary eureka moment of revelatory enlightenment of the existential threat that "braining" posed, which is what The Commonwealth of Virginia through its Virginia Department of Corrections is yet to learn. The current narrative or politics and its speech defining the Virginia prisoner, meaning the accepted treatment of the prisoner, harms the People of Virginia as a general proposition and consequence, because it compels and induces a corruption of the Commonwealth's aspirations with its self negating influence, again not on the prisoner who ironically is the only honest, fact, value and element because the Virginia prisoner exist as an exposing fact of the Commonwealth's contradictions, but on The People, by their making a mockery of that same law that created the Virginia prisoner in their permissiveness of its violation by the Virginia prison official. So for example on the one hand Virginia stands for the defense, nurture and support of the human condition and its requisite human life, right ? Of course right, nonetheless and however, we see Virginia doing what to the life of the prisoner?The Virginia Department of Corrections is tasked with providing medical and mental health care to the prisoner, but it starves and gives the prisoner rotten and unfit for consumption meals. Which then takes a toll on the prisoners health and ability to fight off diseases, which then increases and compounds the various cost to the Virginia tax payer of treatment and the point is this compounded cost could have been avoided had the Virginia prison official simply followed and complied with their own operating procedures, policies, the various Virginia laws concerning nutrition and that one irreducible fact, a human being regardless of circumstance is HUMAN, and a State as The Commonwealth of Virginia acting in our collective name, including the Virginia prisoner must unconditionally affirm it. But the reality is due to the partisan politicization of The Virginia Department of Corrections as means to assuming political power any and all farcical, fraudulent and patently intellectually dishonest assertions by specifically Virginia Republican politicians gains that sirenic traction within the average Virginia voter, who understandably is at their wits end over, take your pick, any number of the contradictions and antagonisms of Virginia's Social Contract, then add on the highlighting of an unspeakable heinous criminal deed, to which is scapegoated and "othered" by your typical politician, just as our current Governor Glenn Youngkin, with his hypocritical exploitation of the former Virginia Parole Board paroling of a cop killer, who became a cop killer under and due to the same law that also afforded him process of parole, which Glenn Youngkin as Governor took his oath of office by swearing to defend and execute the same law that accords a cop killer process of parole, just as it convicted him of cop killing, instantly perjured his oath by undermining all faith and trust in law by attacking the paroling of the cop killer, because it fit a political narrative, yet that same narrative didn't fit and apply when as Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin stuck his tongue out in mockery of all Virginians harmed by crime, when he burlesque pranced on stage with a 34 count felony convicted then candidate, but now president of The United States. The point being what we encounter as truism and an inescapable fact, is the obstructionism of Virginia's political partisanship towards holding the Virginia prison official accountable.

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 HOLDING THEIR BREATH, THAT THIS NOVEMBER, VIRGINIANS, ESPECIALLY OUR WOMEN WILL FORGET THAT THESE APPX. FOUR YEARS OF THEIR PRISON POLICIES TURNED VIRGINIA PRISON CAGES INTO BURNING PYRES By William Thorpe

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Criminal Justice and the subsequent Imprisonment practices should never become partisan political issues and its right or wrong way opportunistic exploitation. Yet that is the typical state both are consistently distorted with. There is nothing I say on these topics that isn't universal but as a Virginia prisoner, one who has been exiled to another state's prison system, due to those exact, partisan political formulations, my focus is on Virginia. I begin: as soon as a perspective or point of view or partisanship emerges in any social fact, what we are confronted with is, interest, its defense and the inevitable struggle against process of accountability. As this relates to criminal justice and imprisonment in Virginia, we naturally find that its practice or the work of The Virginia Department of Corrections, embodying the anticipations and intentions of the criminal justice infrastructure is ridiculously at odds with it. In other words the distilled expression of The State of Virginia's grasp of law or the very process of its own existence is violently and irreconcilably violated by its own imprisonment practices because its politics succumbed to the sirenic distortions of partisanship as response to crime and its criminal justice process. What exactly are the distortions of partisanship in Virginia's criminal justice infrastructure and its imprisonment practices, the answer is unambiguously and unequivocally "everything". So, for example we encounter the idea that there is something as being " soft on crime", implying that its opposition is "tough on crime".

These past appx. four years have once again shown us the absurdities of partisan politics camouflaging as prison policies. The Commonwealth of Virginia in itself is no innocent and isn't lacking in capacity and ability to be savage and barbarous, then came the critical mass of 2024, where prisoners held and detained in solitary confinement at the state's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, denied, deprived,inhibited, blocked, impeded, obstructed and prevented on all levels and fronts, from the farce of the prison's grievance process through the travesties of Virginia courts process, then legislative acts by Virginia's General Assembly only to have their efforts vetoed by the partisan politics of the Republican Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, from protesting the unlawful and violative treatment at the hands of the Virginia prison official had no other recourse and option than to speak with the desperate speech of self-immolation. To which true to the incorrigible and pathetic Virginia Republican partisan politics of scapegoating and dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, was from Governor Youngkin through Chadwick Dotson, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, on down to rank and file prison officials at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, at first denied that prisoners were self-immolating, then dismissed as criticisms from, and I paraphrase, activists and abolitionist, then corruptly downplayed as prisoners who set themselves on fire simply wanted a visit. Now the fact that prisoners would set themselves on fire a la Buddhist monks circa 1960's protesting the Vietnam War, because no other option was available to them in pursuit of petitioning Government for redress, was totally ignored as a possibility, not because Virginia's Republican Government and its prison policies was incapable of grasping that truth, but it didn't comport nor conform with their partisan politics of "othering", scapegoating, waging war and dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner. As such their only idealistic and unimaginative response was to double down on the partisanship of dehumanization. To bookend this, Virginia Republicans are the same ones who worship and excuse the 34 felony count convicted U.S. president, Governor Glenn Youngkin is the same one who circus barker like, Ring Master, hype man like cavorted on a Virginia stage with the then 34 count felony convicted candidate for the U.S. Presidency at the expense of all Virginians, his constituents who have been harmed by crime. The issue is simple, the question is clearly presented, criminal justice and its infrastructure cannot remain under the gimmicks and gambits of partisan politics and its perpetual scapegoating of prisoners, which is to also state a type of demography of Virginian. There has to be an accounting of the dehumanizing prison policies of Virginia Republican partisan politics, which this November 2025 accords and presents.

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

SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

Human Beings, we complicate stuff needlessly and the consequences of such complications are, as the "streets" would say, we "self check" ourselves or we get in our own way. I'm not concerned with whatever rationalizations we self check ourselves with because the only arbiter is ACCOUNTABILITY and as it relates to the work of reform of THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and its Prison System, the question isn't whether the Department is fundamentally corrupt and needs the correction of reform, because the corruption is self evident, but how is the necessary ACCOUNTABILITY affirmed and realized. Now here is where we get in our own way or that self checking of ourselves, because we complicate the applicative simplicity of the means of holding The Government of Virginia accountable in its form of The Virginia Prison Official. Here is a simple question how does a regular John or Jane Doe Virginian assume public and governmental authority? Of course we all know the answer, its through the electoral process or the vote and as it applies to the specific issue of reforming the prison system, it then matters extraordinarily and inordinately great who those millions of Virginians vote for, based on and because of their grasp and comprehension of its basis in Virginia law and the requisite ACCOUNTABILITY. Even as I state this and despite the fact that this is common knowledge, the average Virginian, takes it for granted, despite recognizing viscerally the inherent and fundamentally corrupt philosophy of the prison official, but and because they self check themselves with and by accepting the deliberate and purposeful perversion that the prison official is not above law, but under it as we all are. The next thing is how does the average Virginian get in their own way by accepting that the prison official can do the same exact identical deeds that resulted conviction and imprisonment of a Virginian as lawful? again the answer is simple, its easier to scapegoat than, to demand ACCOUNTABILITY

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 PRISONERS DAY, MAY 18, 2025

WE GREET ALL VIRGINIANS who stand with us on this 3d VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY with the understanding that the measure of ourselves and Society is how ACCOUNTABLE we are to the law and laws that governs us and subsequently creates THE VIRGINIA PRISONER. Because in the treatment of the prisoner thats done in our name, are we affirmed or ridiculed. To THE VICTIMS OF CRIME, We recognize your harm which all the more underscores and emphasizes the inclusive necessity of your voice demanding ACCOUNTABILITY and ADHERENCE to Law by the Virginia Prison Official in the administration of the "JUSTICE" of imprisonment of the convicted Virginian. The harm of your criminal experience shouldn't be mocked and travestied by the Law breaking impunity of the Virginia Prison Official. To THE FAMILIES OF THE VIRGINIA PRISONER, Our Solidarity is eternal. We are The People in whose name all is done, as such we demand its ACCOUNTING in the administration of Virginia Prisons. To VIRGINIA BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZED LABOR, On this VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY, contrary to the us against them dehumanizing narrative, THE VIRGINIA PRISONER is Human and Citizen, having that intrinsic creativity, resourcefulness and industriousness necessary for the development of the Commonwealth and we ask you have the revolutionary foresight to make the most of this. To our VIRGINIA EDUCATORS, including THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS, On this VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY, We have a simple ask: WHERE ARE YOU?, As Educators and Professionals you are a font for novel approaches to Social intractabilities and nothing spells "intractable" as crime or deviance. The Commonwealth of Virginia were you to appreciate your historical responsibilities would instruct our human condition that, a philosophy of dehumanizing the prisoner only reveals our savagery. To VIRGINIA'S RELIGIOUS FRONT, On this VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY, it isn't about us reminding you of your tenets, but rather you becoming that which your tenets instruct you are to the PRISONER, least of challenging, unlike Paul of The New Testament, impunity of hypocrisies and its travesties. To OUR VIRGINIA GOVERNMENT, First of all, on this VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY, We recognize and stand with those of our Elected Leaders who do the Peoples work and their efforts and focus on actually developing serious and enlightened responses to the antagonisms of the Commonwealth's Social Contract. When Section 9 of Article 1 of [the] Bill of Rights to [the] Constitution of Virginia and its prohibitions against cruel punishments were declared, punishments then modeled the gratuitous cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition, then enlightened minds and hearts revolted and aspired something else and its with that as THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA stand with THE VIRGINIA PRISONER.

By vapac

MAY 18, 2025 VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY

WE CALL ON ALL TO STAND WITH THE VIRGINIA PRISONER ON MAY 18th, 2025. IN WHATEVER MANNER AVAILABLE IN ACCORD WITH ONE'S ABILITY IN SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY WITH VIRGINIA PRISONERS INCLUDING POSTS, COMMENTS ON THE VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, ALONG WITH T-SHIRTS, SIGNS, VIDEOS, RADIO CALL-INS AND DISCUSSIONS THAT CLEARLY STATES TO OUR POLITICIANS THAT ABUSING AND DRIVING PRISONERS INSANE IN OUR NAME, "WE THE PEOPLE" ISN'T WHAT WE VOTE FOR.....[ PLEASE USE THESE HASHTAGS----EITHER OR BOTH #VaPrisonersDay #MayVaThird Sunday. WE CALL ON ALL TO STAND WITH THE VIRGINIA PRISONER ON MAY 18th, 2025.THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH REASONS WELL DOCUMENTED IN COURT CASES AGAINST THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL,THEN IN 2024 WE WERE SUBJECTED TO ANOTHER LEVEL OF SAVAGERY AND BARBARITY BY PRISONER SELF-IMMOLATION INDUCING AND CAUSING POLICIES OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS......WE SHARE AGAIN OUR STATEMENT FOR THE INAUGURAL VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY ON MAY THE 21ST, 2023

As we at VAPAC [Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee] continue the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable it is necessary it is established that the prisoner as narrative exist independent of that colloquial supposition, which the petty tyranny of the above the law attitude of a faction of Virginia politics exploits. The Virginia Prisoners Day is a principle declaring that the Virginia prisoner is not a scape goat, a distraction and diversion to be blamed for Virginia's historic and systemic injustices. 

For This 2025, May The Inaugural Virginia Prisoners Day: We State

The Commonwealth of Virginia historically has had a schizophrenic cognizance of human life. See the Virginia Thomas Jefferson's pronouncements in the United States declaration of Independence, "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness......" even as he held enslaved hundreds of black men and women in direct contravention of his pronouncements. even as he serially raped the enslaved Sally Hemmings whom he deprived of her created equality, endowed unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

On April 17th 1861; Virginia became the 8th state whose political-economic needs and wants were structured on enslaving human beings, specifically black men and women to declare war against the united states in pursuit of its practice of enslaving human beings, a pursuit that violated the all men are created equal dicta. Again on the Virginian Thomas Jefferson imploring the witness of a "candid world" in the declaration of Independence even as he prejudiced the "candid world" by the enslavement of millions of black people.

Again in 1871, the Commonwealth of Virginia despite the repudiation of the contradiction of Dred Scott in blood and Catholic perdition of the civil war and despite the emergence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution still pursued its rabid intoxication with enslaving human beings if not as the former social fact it would under the travesty of law and order. So in November 1871 we find the Supreme Court of Virginia dementedly declaring in the case Ruffin v. Commonwealth 62 VA. 790

"The Bill of Rights is a declaration of general principles to govern a society of freeman, and not of convicted felons and civily dead. Such men have some rights it is true, such as the law in its benignity accords to them, but not the rights of freemen. They are slaves of the state undergoing punishment for heinous crimes committed against the laws of the land. While in this state of penal servitude, they must be subject to the regulations of the institutions of which they are inmates, and the laws of the state to whom their service is due in expiation of their crimes."

What the 1871 Supreme Court of Virginia revealed is that continuum of schizophrenic cognizance of what is the Virginia prisoner we see displayed since 2021, for example by Harold Clarke Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections with his 54%  of Virginia prisoners would violently re-offend were they released       A declaration that remains unchallenged by Virginia's media.

As we mark May 18, 2025 as Virginia Prisoners Day we ask all life loving persons to join in underscoring the fact: As a society we are not redeemed when the prison official is unaccountable and above the law;

#VaPrisonersDay #MayVAThirdSunday

In Strength and Solidarity We Stand

In Solidarity

vapac

THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND ITS PRISONER SELF-IMMOLATION CAUSING POLICIES MUST BE FRONT AND CENTER IN NOVEMBER 2025 ELECTIONS By William Thorpe

Okay, how far back do we want to go in the archives of Virginia's corporate media to remind ourselves of that adage of when one points an accusatory finger, four are pointed back at you. Because what the archives would remind us of is how energetic and relentless Virginia's media has been in denouncing, castigating and in coining new synonyms of depravity when critiquing dehumanizing imprisonment practices of let's say, Iran, Cuba or for good measure Venezuela. Meaning there is capability in the Commonwealth to call out barbarity and we applaud such, which then all the more underscores its omission when the barbarity and depravity ignored is activity by the Commonwealth's own state organized violence, funded and done in the name of The People of Virginia. When we talk about omissions, in calling out the barbarity and depravity of Virginia's state organized violence, by corporate media, we are not saying that there isn't record and the documenting of the extra-judicial act ,but what we are declaring is it isn't presented as existential faults of the Social Contract to be remedied by the electoral process, meaning the barbarism of the Virginia prison official as actual administrative and professional policy and philosophy isn't highlighted, it isn't elevated, it isn't presented front and center, for example to The People of Virginia to determine whether they want their imprisoned daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sisters and brothers subjected to inducing and causing self-immolation prison policies of the Virginia Department of Corrections and its ad hoc philosophies. I say ad hoc, because at Virginia Code Title 53.1, PRISONS AND OTHER FORMS OF CORRECTIONS, The People of Virginia gave The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections at 53.1-10, dictatorial powers which by nature are ad hoc. Forever the path to speculative political power in The Commonwealth as across the Nation is to exploit the harm of crime and scape goat the prisoner. Consequently the result has been unforeseens stacked upon unforeseens with the inevitable ostrich head in the sand syndrome, as if the resulting impunity, corruption and unaccountability are ADAMIC, EVEIAN and oh lest I forget,the SERPENT (and by the way what breed of serpent) the point however is we conveniently blame the pursuit of self interest on "original sin" as a get from up under ACCOUNTABILITY logic and its petty sophistry.

The bane of our Human Condition, The Social Contract and it's establishment of political-economies is ACCOUNTABILITY, it's affirmation or negation. Specifically the holding of those in positions of authority and leadership, whether their placement is a result of the electoral process or industrial volition, accountability of their objective interaction is a fundamental, primary and basic requisite of The Social Contract and is the intrinsic animating value of our Human Condition, it is the lattice irrespective of its affirmation or negation. ACCOUNTABILITY is inexorable. It's dialectic is simple, when it is affirmatively pursued the Social Contract is developed and realized or in other words we have progress, enlightenment and a constructive human condition and when we pervert and negate it, we have the backwardness of conservatism, its reaction and illiteracy and the creation of a Presumptuous society and it's attendant antagonistic Social Contract which is what confoundingly is The Commonwealth of Virginia. The focus of this work is that of holding The Virginia Department of Corrections and its Prison Official accountable with the speech of the electoral process .As such there has to be a robustness of clarity and insight into what exactly passes as work by The Virginia Department of Corrections, purportedly done in the name of the People of Virginia for the purpose of criminal conviction. So for example the People of Virginia have seen their judgement as expressed in the work done by their prison officials mocked and ridiculed by peoples of the world, just as the great schizophrenic, Virginia's Thomas Jefferson called upon and implored the peoples of the world to bear witness to the harms and injustices of the British King George against colonials of North America, his subjects, even as they in turn harmed and suffered injustices on Black People, they enslaved, in his authorship of The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 with his "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED TO A CANDID WORLD" [my emphasis].The point is when those enslavers of Black People, Thomas Jefferson and his colonial ilk found the ad hoc dictates of their sovereign King George injurious, they seeked witness of "a candid world", well that same candid world questioned, mocked and ridiculed the judgement of the people of Virginia because of revelations and exposés in late 2024 that their Virginia prison official performing in their name was causing the Virginia prisoner to use the desperate speech of self-immolation.

The savagery and barbarism of the Virginia prison official is thoroughly and comprehensively documented, what The People of Virginia have to do is correct it, meaning it has to be an electoral issue front and center before the Virginia voter. For to long there has been a conflation of maintaining security in prison by the prison official with breaking the law in its pursuits. What this simply means is the Virginia prison official invokes law while repudiating it, and the people of Virginia through complicity of their Virginia corporate media intentionally misrepresenting the much needed and necessary context of the prison official's malfeasances are caught up in the spiders web of ignorances and colloquial suppositions, incapable of recognizing that the break down in law and order isn't due to the convicted and imprisoned Virginian, whose circumstance actually affirms law and order, but in the multitudinous, daily law breaking acts suffered by the Virginia prisoner because of the above the law actions and activities of the Virginia prison official. Secondly as I have been making the point, that victims of actual criminality by the Virginia prisoner, should be right along front and center in the work of holding the Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison official accountable because it is a betrayal and travesty of "justice", when under guise of "justice ", what the Virginia prisoner is subjected to is simple crass savagery and barbarism, that have nothing to do with terms of The Social Contract that enabled the conviction and imprisonment, to begin with. What this work intends on accomplishing is that understanding that, if the deprivation of liberty is the most basic act and work of our human condition and its Social Contract formulations, and if the electoral process is the only fundamental manner of speech and if in modern Virginia society the value of " justice" is embodied in The Virginia Department of Corrections and its honesty to law, then,the central question of this November 2025 state wide Virginia elections is that honesty to law, by The Virginia Department of Corrections considering the fact that the only thing known and understood about it, is its an abject charnel house.

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