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