HALF A DOZEN YEARS AND COUNTING, IN EXILE IN THE TEXAS PRISON SYSTEM FROM VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

William Thorpe

You know six years ago on May 29, 2019 Virginia shackled me, handcuffed me so tightly with chains around the waist, that one of the transporting officials on the plane with me had to loosen the handcuffs just enough for me to snack on some trail mix, well that was six years ago to the day and half a dozen years since, its another May 29th, 2025 and my exile by Virginia's Government to the Texas prison system is ongoing. There is another aspect to Virginia exiling me to Texas that I haven't spoken on, till now, which is my Mother had just died on May 19th, 2019 ten days before Virginia bundled me on the Governor's plane, for exile. Anyway as I noted in one of my works, titled, JUST AS VIRGINIA SLAVE OWNERS.....my experience and circumstance isn't unique, Virginia just can't get out the way of its ancestral habit and practice of presumptions and its futility of dictatorship. So the facts are simple, since my imprisonment under Virginia's jurisdiction, my speech has been clear, I'm imprisoned because of and under law as such the system and the prison official embodying it are compelled and obligated to follow and be under it's process as we all are and its this simple fact that Virginia and it's prison official is violently resentful and apoplectic of. The contradiction isn't whether Virginia is just and right to apply law as fundamental terms of the Social Contract, because it is, which irrespective of form of dictatorship has process that despite its relative violability, in it's consciousness of itself cannot dismiss the unconditionality of reform, yet what we see is Virginia and its prison official doing the opposite and as preposterous as it sounds, waging war on the prisoner, which is that classic totem of the snake devouring its tail. So I'm held in the Texas prison system, when I was exiled from Virginia, I was in solitary confinement at Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, where I had been since its opening in 1998.

I was one of the initial ten guys, from Virginia's original Super-Max, (the now closed) Mecklenburg Correctional Center, who opened up Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison (which is hard at work resurrecting all the evils of Mecklenburg). My current detention in solitary confinement (which I still am in Texas) started after a August 8th-9th,1996 hostage incident at Virginia's Nottoway Correctional Center. Now what I want to use this six years of exile in Texas to illustrate, is, first of all, the administrating philosophy of the Nations prisons are relatively alike and identical, which shouldn't be news to anyone who pays attention with nominal grasp to the fact that one of the hallmarks of The Constitution Of The United States is its reduction of a full person to....."three fifths....",at Article I. Because the fundamental terms of Social Contract, in the Nations and of course Virginia (which was a driver in that demented..."three fifths...."formulation) is political-economy. In other words, Virginia as well as the Nations' Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment scheme was all about the motive and formulations of the demented...."three fifths....", so despite its revisionism and "public safety" calibrated narrative, the Nations prisons and imprisonment schemes are haplessly mired in that which anticipates the Speech of reform, just as that dialectic of the....."three fifths" anticipated the Civil War. I'm also using this half-dozen years and counting of Texas exile to resurrect one of the irrefutable polemics of our ancients, that simply observes the generality of injustice irrespective of specific experience, which as irrefutable principles go, only affirms or proves it. In the work, that I documented my 2019 exile, titled: The Exile of William Thorpe from Virginia to Texas, An Extraordinary Act, I stated, this which I excerpt, "The question my exile poses besides the obvious Governmental abuse with its deceptive security threat basis which is nothing more than cover for petty and crass extra judicial vindictiveness for the Virginia Justice System is simple and it isn't limited to my circumstance. Besides regardless of the " legality". Of the exile, it's motive details an extra judicial act and its execution underscores an intrinsic aspect of our human condition which in a nutshell is: irrespective of the backdrop of law, there isn't a just and democratic accounting of its misuse. People will apply their petty tyrannical impulses, which in this instance prison officials under cover of law but in unlawful ways." I've excerpted this bit of a passage referencing my exile in 2019 and to buttress it, is what is playing out Nationally, in 2025 where, Law, when once upon a time was deployed in its subordinating dynamic,[see the Constitutional, Article I, "three fifths" formulation] against those falling under and subject to its rubric, yes that specific marginalized, is now weaponized against "All", even allies of its misuse, in other words all Americans are now subject to the brazen impunity deployed against the prisoner by the prison official. People who are not imprisoned have this irrational or better yet cognitive dissonance, that " prison" exist outside of law, which is a deliberate construct and concoction of the prison official and their infrastructure-allies, an endeavor that has nothing to do with the speculations of repairing the harm caused by a crime or that generic, "justice", but pursuing and permitting the industrialization of the professional prison official as a career employment. Here is an illustrative anecdote, historically, the prison official was called a " prison guard", then in the early 1990's, young incoming prisoners started using the acronym, CO (for correctional officer), but Virginia main stream or corporate media still referred to the prison official as prison guard, notwithstanding the fact Virginia's mainstream media rarely had any critically insightful exposé about the Virginia prison official for its readers and consumers, as a matter of fact the media has been the prison official's staunchest ally and enabler in disseminating the propaganda and narrative that the Virginia prison official is irreproachable and above law. Yet in 1996 or 1997,Ron Angelone, the then Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections found it existential and vital to the Virginia prison official's narrative that Virginia's mainstream media referred to them as Correctional Officers. The point is that colloquial prison guard was being industrialized, but the glibly glossed over is this, a title does not a job make, so the Virginia prison official got their Correctional Officer, title without a job to go along with it, save for that antebellumnesque continuum of savagery, barbarity and gratuitous violence, a holdover from their progenitor, which naturally has nothing to do with Virginia law concerning imprisonment. Well this six year mark of my exile clearly paints the work of reform of the prison official and the requisite 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