Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: August 2025

Monday, August 11, 2025

WHAT DOESN'T VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR STATE WIDE ELECTIONS IN 2025 GET THAT DOING TIME IN VIRGINIA PRISONS ISN'T OPPORTUNITY FOR PRISON OFFICIALS TO BREAK THE LAW IN THEIR TREATMENT OF PRISONERS ? By William Thorpe

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Look we already know where Virginia Republicans and their National brethren stand on law and its due process--THEY IGNORE AND VIOLATE IT. No one in their right mind would waste time impressing Republicans with the fact that without the law and its processes that they ignore and violate they wouldn't be in the position of violating it. The issue however is with Democrats who at least present an inkling that, they understand that President JOHN ADAMS wasn't a dotard or daft when he reminded us through his compatriots and contemporaries, that the newly constructed and nascently emerging UNITED STATES, was a Nation of "laws and not of men", which is the requisite and necessary "reagent", of constructing forthrightness and even JOHN ADAMS couldn't have fore saw the present condition, where accountability isn't to due process of law, but to men.

Recently Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares was again in the news hectoring and lecturing Virginia legislators, with his cat nip fascination over Virginia prisoners receiving "good time" or Earned Sentence Credits, which of all that is wrong with The Commonwealth's Social Contract, is his singular focus and he's quoted as saying, "Too many elected officials have decided to use the law as a social experiment rather than as a shield", because his point is, supposedly 35.5% of 7,193 Virginia prisoners released due to the Earned Sentence Credits law reoffended, therefore the law not only is suspect but it renders its proponents vulnerable to that ridiculous, infantile and idealistic Republican critique of "social experiment" or its other formulation popularized by the clay feet of reactionary politics, Newt Gingrich, "social engineering".

Look people this is crazy. Here we have the Attorney General of Virginia, a Constitutional Office, as such is intended to inspire and consequently be forward looking. Yet the current occupant, Jason Miyares is giving us the most insensate of arguments, which quite frankly is indefensible and is only tolerated because of the deference and benefit of the doubt given and accorded the office. We are told that a law which a majority of Virginians voted for because they demanded reform of an imprisonment scheme and condition done in their name and authority, must be scrapped, because Jason Miyares and the "thought" that he represents, is politically at odds with it? And the argument is because 35.5% of Virginians released from prison under the law, supposedly reoffended and you know what let's even ignore context and deal with our Attorney General's argument on its terms, yeah the Jason Miyares vantage, which is if 2,553.15 of 7,193 released prisoners reoffended, it means,4,639.485 didn't and in what world wouldn't that be a cause for celebration?. People think about this 64.5% of prisoners released under a law incentivizing the Virginia prisoner's behavior DIDN'T REOFFEND and our Attorney General Jason Miyares wants to scrap the law ?.

The point I'm making brings me to my central focus, these past 3+ years rule of Republican as Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin have been that colloquial, when you think it can't get worse, Virginia Republicans say oh hell yeah we'll make it worse, because who would have thought that we'd see the Virginia prisoner reduced to perdition and it's desperation of self-immolation? and that wasn't beyond the pale enough till the Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections Chadwick Dotson, opened his mouth dismissing the fact that prisoners entrusted to his care where setting themselves on fire, who by the way before assuming the position as Director was Chairman of The Virginia Parole Board and before that was a Circuit Judge of Wise County. I mean in a sane, sensible and incorruptible world we would retrace and review every single decision Chadwick Dotson has ever made in his professional life, because his comments alone on the prisoner self-immolation at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison are defacto disqualifiers, and aren't Judges supposed to exhibit Solomonic wisdom?. Anyway the point is, in light of all of this sword of Damocles savagery and barbarism hanging over Virginia Republicans and their prison policies, Virginia Democrats running for Statewide and Local Elections in November have revealed themselves, despite the fact that during their last ascension to the reins of Virginia Governance and Government, they accomplished significant prison reforms, incapable of saying what all rule of law and its due process Virginia adherent understand, which is The Virginia Department of Corrections is corrupt and begs for an accounting. Which is what these November Elections anticipate.

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

Friday, August 1, 2025

BESIDES THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, THE ONES WE HOLD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BARBARIC AND CRIMINAL HEALTH CARE GIVEN THE VIRGINIA PRISONER ARE THE TRADE GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS By William Thorpe

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The Hippocratic Oath exist for a reason, it is the measure and standard of the professional behavior of Doctors and Medical workers. It doesn't have sub paragraphs or categorys exempting prisoners, more specifically relating to this work, the Virginia Prisoner, from its unqualified obligation and responsibility of providing medical care. However time and time, again and again, what we experience and know from the existence of exhaustive examples of the compromising and violative nature, type and circumstances of medical care and treatment allowed the Virginia prisoner is the shameful betrayal of the unchallenged requirement of the Hippocratic Oath, by members of Virginia's medical professional and health care community, who are unconditionally accorded and given respectability and its concordant, benefit of the doubt by The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia, besides their professional existence but even more note worthy, their existence as private persons. I begin: Henry "Bobilly" Gorham Jr., a Virginia prisoner who recently died at The Greensville Correctional Center after being continuously imprisoned over a mind boggling and obscenely unfathomably, unimaginably 50+ years in Virginia's cages, of the ridiculous claims of pancreatic and liver cancer as "natural causes", which I chastised in an earlier work that no Black Person ever since the impact of slavery and colonialism, has died of natural causes and Bobilly was a Black Man, then we are confronted with the issue The People of The Commonwealth avert their scrutiny from, which is, the legality construct of imprisonment requires accountability of its every single aspect, beginning with, NO VIRGINIAN IS SENT TO PRISON TO DIE.

When The People of Virginia exercise their organized violence of detaining and confining a Virginian in prison under due process of law for a set amount of time, practically there isn't under law the presumption that the natural course of events of the human existence are corollary with the imprisonment, because human existence is a confluence and congruence of interacting circumstances, sets of relations that do not exist independent of each other and the characterization loss of liberty due to imprisonment isn't able under law to legitimately account for, unless we accept that the detention and confinement of imprisonment despite process of law is still and relatively an arbitrary and ad hoc enterprise. Because if the State of Virginia which is The People are not generally and specifically responsible and accountable for the fact that a sovereign distinct individual human being, and by all honest metrics, there isn't, such a recognition and the acceptance, notwithstanding the state of being subject to the compulsion and coercive fiat of the organized violence of Virginia's Social Contract and imprisonment, that the conditions and the very nature of the imprisonment, not only is existing in a netherworld of selective responsibilities, but is making a mockery of the notion that the detention and confinement is not only lawful but just.

Henry "Bobilly" Gorham isn't the first Virginia prisoner to die on the betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath by Virginia's medical community, nor is he the first of those I was in solidarity with in the trenches of Virginia's hell holes. Bobilly's death and contrary to the crass hatred of Virginia's reactionaries, his immortalization, put in stark and clear relief, the intrinsic and incipient corruption of The People of Virginia's desire to exact accountability selectively, while unwilling and quite frankly simply incapable of demanding the same accountability from its institutions and those it privileges. First of all the existence of Bobilly and all the contemporary and to come Bobilly's make a mockery of the mythology Virginia's establishment recount to the implacability of facts and their revisionist impermeability. So Virginia can say it imprisoned Bobilly to his death for over 50+years and that ringing "the emperor has no clothes" voice will in perpetuity resound, 'at the expense of accountability'. Which is what Virginia's medical establishment has shamelessly sacrificed by being complicit with the unaccountable and ad hoc practices of the Virginia prison official, pursuing the idealistic impulses of the people of Virginia and the as I have presented, outside of law conditions of imprisonment. We do not ask Virginia's medical community to defend or apologize for imprisonment, but what we indict the community of, is, its cravenness and the accompanying complicity, when it sacrifices its morality and ethics at the behest of prison officials who clearly, not only are not sympathetic to the Hippocratic Oath but could care less about it. The only question before the Virginia medical community is, on whose terms?

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