WHAT EXACTLY DOES VIRGINIA CODE TITLE 53.1-39 CERTAIN PUNISHMENT OF PRISONERS PROHIBITED, MEAN? By William Thorpe

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VIRGINIA CODE TITLE 53.1-39---CERTAIN PUNISHMENT OF PRISONERS PROHIBITED [it states] "NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CODE OR ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR THE DIRECTOR, THE BOARD, OR ANY OTHER CORRECTIONAL AUTHORITY HAVING THE CARE, CUSTODY, OR CONTROL OF ANY PRISONER IN THIS COMMONWEALTH TO MAKE OR ENFORCE ANY RULE OR REGULATION PROVIDING FOR THE WHIPPING, FLOGGING, OR ADMINISTRATION OF ANY SIMILAR CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF ANY PRISONER OR TO GIVE ANY SPECIFIC ORDER FOR OR TO CAUSE TO BE ADMINISTERED OR PERSONALLY TO ADMINISTER OR INFLICT ANY SUCH CORPORAL PUNISHMENT"-----Then the Virginia Prison Official after reading, studying and receiving what they term and consider as guidance from the Office of The Attorney General of Virginia on the meaning of and on how to implement the law, promptly begins to violate it in principle and in practice. Give me a moment and I'll show what I mean, right after I quote how BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY defines "CORPORAL PUNISHMENT" [as] "PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT PUNISHMENT THAT IS INFLICTED UPON THE BODY (INCLUDING IMPRISONMENT)".This proscription and prohibition against Corporal Punishment has been a Virginia law for a while. What normally happens is Legislators or the Politicians construct the Law, the Governor signs it and then it exists under Due Process. Meaning, as it relates to the law in question a Virginia prisoner goes to court claiming the Virginia prison official in violation of 53.1-39,has subjected him or her to corporal punishment. The Virginia prison official represented by the Attorney General of Virginia denies any violation has occurred and the Judge sides with the prison official and tosses or dismisses the claim. Meaning the Virginia prison official returns to the prison and keeps on doing whatever they were doing that compelled the prisoner to file the claim. But here is the reality, the Virginia Prisoner still suffered and endured the state and condition of something physical. So instead of tying the Virginia prisoner to a whipping post or placing the prisoner in a stockade, which would evoke that colloquial description of "corporal punishment", firstly the Virginia prison official, refuses to characterize a condition the prisoner is subjected to as punishment and that in itself is that original permeating corrupting general rot or canker of the Virginia prison official's "Thought", because the entire condition and circumstance of imprisonment, is "punishment". Then the Virginia prison official begins to subject the prisoner to all sorts of punishing pain inducing and causing methods, for a classic example of this [see this case] BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 Va. App. LEXIS 550 [the Virginia prisoner, Burke, who was already suffering from a number of degenerative and congenital diseases, was according to Court records "hog tied "]. Virginia Federal and State Courts are full of all sorts of accounts of "corporal punishments", meted to Virginia prisoners in direct contradiction and violation of Virginia code 53.1-39. [See these cases FOBBS v. HUNT 2021 U.S.DIST.LEXIS 87094 BAILEY v. TURNER 736 F.2d 963(and Sherardize this particular case).Violations also occur with that wink and nod by Judges and Governmental Officials who deliberately weaponize euphemisms in support and defense of that which corporal punishment does yet 53.1-39 proscribes and prohibits. The reality of this is: the Virginia prisoner, family and friends experience the impunity and disregard of the law as nothing less than a tyrannical imposition.

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

Urgently Bringing To Your Attention a Serious and Ongoing Situation at Greensville Correctional Center That Demands Immediate Investigation.

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I am writing to urgently bring to your attention a serious and ongoing situation at Greensville Correctional Center that demands immediate investigation.
On July 1, 2024, I was violently attacked in my cell at approximately 2:00 PM. Two assailants entered my cell and assaulted me. At around 4:00 PM, the same individuals returned and attacked me again—this time robbing me and stabbing me multiple times. I was medevaced to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Medical Center, where I was treated for severe injuries, including a dislocated finger, a fractured spine, twelve stab wounds, and extensive facial trauma that left my right eye blackened and my left eye swollen shut. Shockingly, it was nearly 6:00 PM—four hours after the initial attack—before a guard finally entered the area. The times were recorded on the surveillance video of the incident, though I am not sure if that footage still exists. I have heard that tapes sometimes disappear or get erased.
After being released from VCU, I was taken to the prison infirmary. I immediately filed a complaint describing what had happened. The following day, in what I believe was retaliation for speaking up, guards subjected me to a degrading strip search, forcing me to bend over despite the severe pain in my back and spine. I was also required to undergo full-body X-rays without any explanation.
Since this assault, I have repeatedly requested to see a counselor to address the mental trauma I continue to experience, but every request has gone ignored.
I am not the only one suffering under these conditions. Other inmates have been beaten and stabbed, and many of these incidents go unreported. The prison is severely understaffed, and the guards who remain often display an alarming “I don’t care” attitude, creating a dangerous environment for everyone. Inmates with serious mental health issues are housed in general population—some are a danger to themselves, and others can become violent without warning.
I firmly believe it is in the best interest of inmates, staff, and the public that a thorough and independent investigation be conducted into the conditions at Greensville Correctional Center before more people are harmed or killed.

Sincerely, 

“This article is published anonymously at the author’s request.”

PRISON REFORM IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IN THE 21st CENTURY By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: If the Human Brain is still creased with its hundreds of thousands of years function, then modernity and its contemporary existence simply states to increased interaction, which is the vantage for commentary on the character of Prison Reform in The Commonwealth of Virginia in the 21st Century. The beneficiaries of the business as usual, status quo nature of imprisonment in the Commonwealth and its Virginia Department of Corrections will simply belie that this modern and contemporary qualitative value and its exponentially interactive state, demands and requires a commensurate focus or accountability of the professional behavior of the Virginia Prison Official, meaning the status quo quagmire of imprisonment in the Commonwealth would rather the People of the Commonwealth of Virginia not only deny the requirements of their modern and contemporary brains, but they actively oppose its qualitative value and exponentially interactive state and function. A function that is reflective of the, potentially attained deeper and mature recognition of their, the People of the Commonwealth's relationship to the totality of governmental services and obligations, of which, the Virginia Prison Official, as functionary of the Commonwealth's most valued service per virtue that The Department of Corrections is the Commonwealth's largest agency, as such should be under the highest form and type of subordination to the will of the People and their formulation and terms of Accountability. In other words, it isn't a mere exercise and display of idealistic and infantile mistrust and cynicism in governance and the Virginia Governmental Official, but instead is a developed assertiveness based on a comprehensive grasp, that the Virginia individual person is first and foremost the, not a, but the, sum total of aspiration and realization of Virginia governance, in command of the fact that 'governance' is in practice, the actuated vigilance of Accountability. The Virginia Prison official, their ally and reactionary narrative hates, detest and is in perpetual combat with the "accountability-function" of subordination to the Peoples will, which then means as perverted as it sounds, that the Virginia Prison official is at War, with the People of Virginia. Firstly, the non-imprisoned Virginian and secondly the imprisoned. Which on both counts are because of the tolerated presumptions of the Virginia Prison official being beyond reproach and the resulting impunity. When the People permit unaccountable governmental behavior to emerge and exist, it creates a miasmatic space imbuing every aspect and facet of modern and contemporary mature human brain interaction. However if maturity of the Social Contract and its terms as it relates to prison reform in the Commonwealth in the 21st Century is the "accountability-function" potential and its pursuit, meaning the People of the Commonwealth are holding themselves, firstly accountable by taking their vigilance and engagement function with Virginia governance and Government as primary obligations, then the Virginia Prison official will naturally assume their rightful subordinated relationship to them by becoming unambiguously, unconditionally and unequivocally 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

THE CORRUPTION AND ABOVE THE LAWISM OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL, REDUCES US TO THE ARGUMENT THAT THE VIRGINIA PRISONER IS ALSO HUMAN, WHICH CONVERSELY THEN IMPLICITLY TOLERATES VIOLATIONS IF THE PRISONER WEREN'T. WELL LETS ASK MICHAEL VICK IF ANIMALS AREN'T PROTECTED BY LAW By William Thorpe

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Yes, let's ask the venerated ex-NFL Quarterback Michael Vick currently the Head Football Coach of Norfolk State University Football Program, whether animals are seriously protected by Law. You see people he was imprisoned for, despite, convictions, alleged violations of laws protecting animals, specifically Dogs. The point being, People, you the reader, that the corruption of the Virginia Prison Official expressed through and revealed by their savagery and barbarism towards the imprisoned Virginian as prisoner, in the work and efforts of exacting accountability of the violations and malfeasance, reduces us to corrupted arguments by the nature of their strawman Esque and self-negation formulations, where we find ourselves permitting and presenting dichotomous arguments in defense of the intention of holding the violative professional behavior of the Virginia prison official accountable, with assertions as, "prisoners are also Human". What generally happens then is as soon as the "accountability-function" and pursuit, opens the door, with "prisoners are also Human", the corruption of the prison official and their allies, slyly and cunningly seizes upon it is as acceptance and a tacit understanding that the prisoner treatment that is being impeached, is okay and understandable, but it just shouldn't be done to a Human Being. Which then allows the offending prison official and allies to dredge up all sorts of ahumanistic euphemisms upon and under which their misanthropic and sadistic cravings can still be satisfied and realized, because the formulation of the point of impeachment has been transformed and redirected from the simple, clear and plain fact, that the prison official's professional behavior is a violation of law, to that of a "plea", that the prisoner, the Virginia prisoner is also human and shouldn't be subjected to the being impeached and offending behavior. Which then brings us to the hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens of which Coach Michael Vick is representative and emblematic, who have been accused, charged and convicted by firstly, Society and secondly adjudication under Due Process of Law of violating Laws protective of animals and sanctioned. What these instances and incidents reveal is the idealistic, permissive and ineffective nature of the formulation, prisoners are also human as a direct action mechanism of and for demanding reform and accountability of the professional behavior of the Virginia prison official. You see People nothing I'm saying is new, our ancients in their original and initial insights into the construction of The Social Contract understood that reproach and indictment isn't behavior based but violation of Law. Naturally this sounds contradictory, because violation of Law is premised and based on behavior, but the distinction is when the "behavior" breaks or violates the law, which is the distinction John Adams made when he stated during the formative process of the Nation, that "ours is a Nation of laws and not men". As such, which is why the thinking behind Dred Scott and all its resulting rotted fruit, through The Supreme Court of Virginia declaring that [and I paraphrase, that the VIRGINIA PRISONER IS OUTSIDE OF LAW] in RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA. 790 (1871) and all of these Court rulings and decisions which in effect are the Highest "thought" in The Society only show how corrupted the "THOUGHT" is.

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

PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IS FUNDAMENTALLY A LABOR AND POLITICAL-ECONOMY ISSUE By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: In a recent work titled, WHEN WE ALLOW THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL AND THEIR REPUBLICAN ALLY TO DEFINE WHAT IS PUBLIC SAFETY, WE END UP WITH IMPUNITY AND A WAR ON THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN, I wrote: ".....then The People have to remember that the existence of criminality in the General sense is symptomatic of a systemic cause that is cloaked and concealed by the work of euphemisms, deliberately and slyly deployed to run counter to that Constitutional "Good" of the Virginia Constitution which is the font of characterization and dicta of the Social Contract and confront it on the basis of what form of criminality are impacting their realized terms of their labor valuation ".Now let me expand on the stated, that The People, have to confront criminality or more plainly the issue of Public Safety," on the basis of what form of criminality are impacting their realized terms of their labor valuation".Were we existing under honest and practical or "pragmatic" [to borrow analysis from Gov-Elect Abigail Spanberger] Social Contract terms, the understanding and cognition that Public Safety is fundamentally a Labor and Political-economy issue wouldn't require mental labor to simply unequivocally and unambiguously state it. But such isn't the case because we exist in a self-embraced and induced affliction of willful distortions and perversions, where governance and the Political Function is reduced to being the wagging tail, forgetful and amnesiac to the reality of the brain filled head indicative, of something else, besides being a pom pom waving and tail wagging status quo. Society, to be specific for purpose of this work, Virginia Society is essentially an existence of LABOR, which is primarily interactive. This quality, this Value is that Life Force or motive, effusing everything and all that is The Commonwealth of Virginia as such everything is reflective and demonstrative of its health and any effort and work to separate its analysis as being separate and distinct from any reform work of any aspect and facet of Virginia's Social Contract and Society to wit The Virginia Department of Corrections and the Virginia Prison Official is either insidious, idiotic or worse both. Concavely antagonisms directed at Labor reveal their existence within other aspects and facets of the Social Contract as supposed immaculate transfigurations a la the Steve Urkel "did I do that", defense. If the wagging of the tail isn't the raison d'tre of the brain filled head and is in fact it's tell tale function, then The People, as aggregated head, as Labor have to state to the Political Function, that what is public safety isn't some sort of partisan/ideological foist but is a defacto encompassing realization of Human Life, their human life and Condition, as such "reform" isn't a contradiction but a necessary must, a necessary must that isn't subject to the whims of antagonistic interest, as if Labor a la The People are historically a tool in the manipulation of alien interests.

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

YES IT'S HIGH TIME THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HAD A FEMALE DIRECTOR AND GOV-ELECT ABIGAIL SPANBERGER CAN CONTINUE MAKING HISTORY BY GIVING US ONE By William Thorpe

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Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee (vapac) had this posted on its X account......#VADOC hasn't had a Woman Director, there are enough capable Virginia #dems #women with executive, plenary experience, capable of steering the agency out of the mess Chadwick Dotson and his #gop allies have created. We call on @abigailspanberger to give us one........QUITE frankly Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger doesn't need any justification save that of making history by and with the appointment of a Woman to head Virginia's largest agency, The Virginia Department of Corrections, but here is an added spice and qualifier, she'll break up the "good ole boys club" hegemony, by a type of Virginia demographic that has eternally and infernally had the agency in its sleeper choke hold. Besides the sprinkling of non-white men and women here and there among the ranks of the agency, the face of The Virginia Department of Corrections has been, White and male. But this current "Face" under the Directorate of Chadwick Dotson and his henchmen have shown themselves to be nothing less than, piners longing for the embodiment and resurrection of Stephen Crane's, RED BADGE OF COURAGE, as if its accompanying perdition isn't sentinel like, a reminder in Battlefields across the Commonwealth. Because how else are we to understand their governing and administrative tactics, when what we see and experience them doing is pulling off dusty antebellum shelves, Plantation operating manuals, reapplying their savage and barbaric ideas, with, for starters shipping Virginia prisoners to other state prison systems just as Virginia enslavers would ship the enslaved to plantations in other enslaving States. The deployment of vicious attack and ill trained dogs on a majority Black prisoner population, as if Chadwick Dotson isn't old enough to recognize the epigenetic harm of Virginia's State Organized Violence once again using dogs against Black People. Then secondly, when was the last time our sensibilities were assaulted with the desperate speech of immolation and not any type of immolation but, self-immolation? Wasn't it with Buddhist monks, protesting the Vietnam War?, but in 2024 the executed prison policies of Chadwick Dotson under the out going Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin did just that. We were reminded by State, National and International News coverage that Virginia Prisoners were reduced to self-immolation as desperate speech of protest and it wasn't and isn't for lack of accessing Virginia Courts, because Virginia Federal and State Court archives are full of claims against the Virginia Prison Official of grotesque and unimaginable professional behavior. Thirdly, the idea that the imprisoned Virginian is an insurgent and enemy combatant evidenced as a legitimate prison policy in the name of The People of Virginia at Koncentration Kamps Red Onion, Wallens Ridge and Sussex I State Prisons by Chadwick Dotson and co. leaves anyone speechless considering it's effrontery when paired with the insult that the Virginia prisoner is being prepared the for re-entry into Society, the least description we can give it, is it's fraud, crass, petty fraud is being perpetrated on The People of The Commonwealth by the Virginia Prison  

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

CORRUPTION WOULD HAVE US FOCUS ON ITS SPECIFIC OR INDIVIDUAL OCCURANCE INSTEAD OF IT'S PERMITTING ENABLERS AND THIS CASE: HUMPHREYS v. EMMONS 2025 U.S. LEXIS 3840 IS A PRIMA FACIE TUTORIAL 101 By William Thorpe

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There is nothing redeeming and redemptive about this case. Stacey Ian Humphreys was convicted on September 25, 2007 of 2 counts of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping and armed robbery against Ms. Cindy Williams and Ms. Lori Brown on November 3, 2003 in the Superior Court of Cobb County, Georgia. The case simply speaks to what the human is capable of, the details are grisly and brutal. See HUMPHREYS v. WARDEN, GA. DIAGNOSTIC PRISON 2024 U.S App. LEXIS 14157. What this case nonetheless encapsulates is this predilection of our human condition, to simply indict the specific while ignoring encompassing factors which were we to immerse our thought into would actually permit the emergence of that much more realized Person and social being capable of the anticipated actuality of Madison's "more perfect union".The acts of the accused and convicted Mr. Stacey Ian Humphreys were brutal, but in the process of his adjudication according to Law, something more disturbing, which speaks not just to the brutality, but a break down of our social selves occurred revealing a corruption that is just as brutal as the accrued felonies being adjudicated. What Mr. Humphreys did to Ms. Williams and Ms. Brown was unspeakable and unconscionable, but and, unspeakable and unconscionable commissions are what our human condition is built of and on, which is what terms of a Social Contract or Political-Economy and Law are intended to ablate. As such with our inclusive and catholic Human Condition we have laboriously recognized and realized certain formulations that are intended to, firstly acknowledge and admit to our propensity to be corrupt and secondly account for it. This accounting anticipates and expects us in our individual selves to exist as a recognizer of threats and that which are emerging corrupting circumstances irrespective of value and respond homeostatically, which inherently is our humans disposition. In other words individually we exhibit, express, and behave with the homeostatis of our within cellular selves in defense of those laboriously recognized and realized formulations that are organically necessary and devoted to sociability and humanness as if the very existence of our species depends on it. Well during the adjudicative process of Mr. Humphreys deeds a corrupting force emerged in the form of a Juror, a Ms. Linda Chancey, who according to established records of his subsequent conviction and appellate processes transformed the Legal proceedings into a farce and just as brutal as Mr. Humphrerys actions, thereby showing and reminding us that the Social Contract is only as secure and legitimate as what defenses our individual selves are willing and resolved to put up. Mr. Humphreys murderous acts are specific while the consequences of the corrupting behavior of Ms. Linda Chancey are like that tug on a thread to a painstakingly sewn sleeve, destroying it, which is what Ms. Chancey's actions accomplished, another permitted undermining and sabotage of what the very fact of Mr. Humphreys adjudication and conviction is supposed to affirm, the "faith and trust" in Due Process of Law, but as Ms. Linda Chancey's corrupting force shows mocked it. This is what the Chancey's of the world are either incapable or unwilling of understanding and we see the same exact behavior by the Virginia Prison Official, which is Due Process of Law and its equality subjective isn't an object of extra-judicial dictatorship.

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