WHY DO CONSERVATIVES AND REACTIONARIES HAVE THIS CRAVEN FEAR OF THE "SYSTEMIC" CRITIQUE By William Thorpe

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Of course my analysis of it is within the context of Virginia Prison Reform, but it extends to the very soul of the Conservative Thought. I BEGIN: I was checking out the 4/15/26 BREAKFAST CLUB Morning Show on Houston's FM 93 The Beat and some Internet influencer with a British accent was being interviewed, because she's promoting her book. What she was peddling was that pull yourself up by your bootstraps, simplicity, but with the niche of speaking to Women. From the way the interview was playing out I assume she's one of those controversial shock artist, whose gimmick is the "stop whining "pouncing on the frazzled among the People, which amounts to stop blaming a system and handle your business. Now as I was listening to her and of course the perpetually confused Charlemagne Tha God and his clueless left or right arm DJ Envy, what kept looping in my head is that Snarky, "the semi-literate is way more dangerous than the stone cold illiterate", because at least the illiterate accepts their illiteracy as such will listen, but the semi-literate, well they think they got it as such you can't tell 'em nothing. Because listening to that Woman on The Breakfast Club go full throttle in dismissing the systemic critique along with Charlemagne and DJ Envy spicing it up, it just revealed how idealistic and strained the anti-systemic critique has pretzeled itself into. Okay so who has denied and when has the individual responsibility or having agency of humanness been critiqued as fraudulent? Yet it is the quintessential go to strawman punching bag strung up by Conservatism in its conscience and second guessing dilemma of contradictions, because that is the only logical conclusion we can reach, as we confront its insidious work of perverting the victims agency against themselves into that singular devolution of the entire historicity of the systemic existence of the Human Condition into "its your fault".Regardless of the philosophical context, meaning purpose or utility of the assumptive and presumptive applicative existence of the "pull yourself up by your bootstrap" theologic mantra. The human being doesn't have to be lied to about the character and structure of, what is the Human Condition, which is what the anti-systemic critique labors mightly at, when all one has to do is say wait a minute, why is it wrong for me as an individual to factor in and understand the determinative role the "system" or specifically the Social Contract plays in my development as a socio-person, yet despite the fact my relationship with society or the Social Contract is comprehensively, completely and thoroughly on "systemic" terms, I shouldn't delve into the mathematics of its political-economy, into its status quo mythologies, into its ignorance's, into its self-serving exploitive gambits and finally I shouldn't recognize by questioning or critiquing how it even perceives my humanness and on what terms?.If the systemic critique is anathema as Conservatism parrots with every opportunity why then should there be submission to the systemic existence of Law?, why then does the State assert legitimacy on the logic of for example the Commonwealth of Virginia as a constitution of the People or better put, the "systemic" or system-integrity of the Peoples Will. But as soon as for example the victim of "red lining" asserts its effects, Conservatism appears on its piggy hind legs of Animal Farm yelling verboten!.

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

GOVERNOR SPANBERGER HAS A COUPLE OF PREACHERS ON HER VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD: WE NEED TO DO A DEEP DIVE ON WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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First of all let me establish that personally I don't have an issue or problem with Religious representatives in any governance and administrative role and positions in the Commonwealth of Virginia's Social Contract, because Religion is as any other institutional establishment expressed as value, terms and relationship of Virginia's Social Contract, notwithstanding whatever presumptions institutions of the Social Contract orient their inherent identity, they're no more than aspects of the sum and whole. With this said, let's get into, this here we go again formulation of Virginia's imprisonment scheme's recognition that Parole isn't a step child but an integral dynamic. Various narratives have in pursuit of their specific and particular intentions played footsie with Virginia's Paroling dynamic, from Virginia Republicans under Governor George Allen of the racist "macaca" infamy, who abolished it in 1995, then Virginia Democrats unable to assert that there is nothing about the Commonwealth's Justice Formulation that is absolute as such Parole, Pardons, Commutations and all its various terms are necessary because we are dealing with the human condition and being, have allowed a vacuum to persist, which reactionaries and their shortsightedness have filled with their stagnancy. Yes Religion as institution does lay claim to an idea that irrespective of its revelation, which is relatively upon the biases of its human medium, is at times beacon and at others, bane to humanity, with the responsibility as focus of the consequences being on us as humanity to point out when it is straying a field, becoming something that is antagonistic as such must be opposed and resisted. From the Pennsylvania Quakers and their polemic on the Nations imprisonment scheme, which as a matter of fact realized the entity, "Penitentiary" through, the role Religion, in its Christian and Black Muslim aspects played as embodied in Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the continuing work of perfecting the unity of the people and not to gloss over the Biblical defiance expressed by Nat Turner and John Brown, Religion has been that two-sided coin at War with itself in this work of human development, maturity and realization, speaking for us the people, then to us, at us and finally against us with everything dependent on us the People, our ability to understand and question. Which is where we are with this presence of two Religious persons, Reverend Tyrone Nelson, Pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and Bishop Kevin White of Covenant Church in Portsmouth, on this newly constituted Virginia Parole Board under the Democratic Administration of Governor Abigail Spanberger. I BEGIN:As much as Virginia's Government embodied in the Parole Board places the onus on the Virginia prisoner or imprisoned Virginian, the reality is we have to have clarity, meaning we have to accept and come to terms with certain fundamental realities of Virginia's imprisonment scheme which Parole is component. Because Virginia's imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the Indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. None of this is indictment, but what it ask is, we have to firstly come to terms with the fact that none of this has been confronted in a legitimate and practical manner on the logic that no one is flotsam.

This is what I mean by, Virginia's Imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. First of all the literal characterization of the words stand unopposed. Virginia's imprisonment scheme as it currently exist was a direct and intentional effort to undo what all the artillery and rifle shells along with saber slashes of the Civil War resulting in Lee's Appomattox surrender had settled in blood and gore. The ink wasn't dry to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of The United States and its conditional abolishment of slavery, when the traitorous losing Confederacy, which Virginia held its Presidency, expressed their incorrigibility and psychotic affinity for slavery with the prompt, exploitation of the condition for its continued existence......"except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction", with enactment of thinly veiled and concealed laws to entrap the newly freed from slavery Black People and return them to the labor, purpose of slavery. So Prison and Imprisonment across the former slave holding Confederate States, including Virginia assumed a new purpose and character as it took on a new pathway, which was conviction of violation of any of the "Black Codes" that were popping up like popcorn. Before I continue, to those who will see this talk of "slavery" and retreat to that tired and dishonest specious and spurious commentary of "all of this slavery this slavery that was in the past, in history", well besides stating the obvious which is, the existence of all of life is in history, the present or now is only a potential with the realization and substance firmly in history. Secondly the argument that slavery or any other issue is without merit, because it's of history only reveals, "exploitation", impunity and the accountability aversion which are typical of the asocial and corrupt. Thirdly as I write human beings are being slaughtered between Israel and its opponents, because of what, a narrative of history, a history that its presumptions accord ten fold the duration of American and Virginian chattel slavery and what is funny is the same minds and hearts who scurry like roaches when the kitchen switch is flipped, in declaring that the slavery critique should be abandoned are the same ones who without any hint of irony, most vociferously and violently defend and are in support of whatever logic claimed by the warring parties in the Israel and Palestine speech. Fourthly what do they think birthdays, National Independence, Anniversaries, commemorations and lastly but not least, the very thing that makes us as humans, human, our memory and memories are about? To get back to this analytical deep dive on the presence and existence of Religious representatives on the Virginia Parole Board. What I'm outlining isn't to be taken as a final word on anything. Instead I anticipate that this topic is seen as what it actually is, a Godsend opportunity to hold Virginia's imprisonment scheme accountable and its dynamics subordinate to the People of the Commonwealth, with the necessary discussion it presents. I continue: Despite the fact that I haven't presented a comprehensive account of the current dynamic of Virginia's imprisonment scheme as birthed post-Civil War, the necessary records are available for the curious.

For thousands of years the human condition and its various Social Contract expressions existed without nothing we will recognize as the postindustrial construct of Prison. Not to digress into why industrialization emerged in the embrace of the idea of Prison and its evolutionary development to our current notion, what matters to this work of critiquing the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole Board, which by the way isn't novel and that all the more demands our current scrutiny, is the fact Prison is a fairly and relatively new institution. Even Colonial Virginia despite the fact it was populated by the socio-person and human being, who over thousands of years as Homosapien has remained with the same propensities and dispositions for deviance along with what we currently catalog as criminality, didn't see fit nor necessity compel, Prison as we again currently recognize it. So what this tells us and this is contrary to that porous sophistry produced by the current class of reactionaries on the Supreme Court of The United States, that there are class of disputes that require a logic and formulation that is set in stone, which in practice is nothing more than the speech of the dictatorship of conservatism and its exploitation and deployment of political supremacy to aver, distort and hold onto a world view whose window has long past sped past the vista. Because this is exactly where we find ourselves with Virginia's tango with the Parole component of its imprisonment scheme under the assumption that what ails it, why it has an antagonistic existence with the People of The Commonwealth and the Imprisoned Virginian is it lacks the Religious world view and it's discernment. The circumstance however with Virginia's Parole dynamic has nothing to do with who dispenses it, but everything to do with the unambiguous understanding that it exist as an affirmative anticipation. To understand this we have to see Virginia's imprisonment construct as it is a Frankenstein creation while denying that Frankenstein is being shocked into animation. Because if Virginia's imprisonment scheme was structured to exploit the conditionality of the abolishment of slavery done under the wink and nod of purveyors of impunity, in other words those who fundamentally denied that the enslaved were Human, which we have the words of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's President as proof, that the...."inequality of the white and black races" was "stamped from the beginning", then imprisonment is another dimension of this "stamped from the beginning", dehumanization and no one will suggest with a straight face that Virginia's operational philosophy of its imprisonment scheme and that of the Virginia Prison official isn't dehumanization regardless of its defensive logic. The victorious Allies didn't reject the Nazi defense of "following orders" during the accountability proceedings at Nuremberg, instead they rejected it under the simple recognition that the condition of humanness, the unqualified recognition of Human Life precedes orders. The Allies understood what orders are to a soldier, hell, they were soldiers, what they rejected in the Nazis was their conditionalizing Human Life, the Allies weren't without their own hypocrisies and contradictions, but what their existence at Nuremberg in that moment in time and History tells and reveals (not that we needed anymore confirmation),is, Human Life is the denominator and its recognition is the arbiter of accountability. So what the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole board points to is, what side of the coin are we being presented with, because we cannot become real and honest about Parole as component of Virginia's imprisonment scheme if the structural basis isn't restructured, with accounting and isn't that the work of Religion?

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

PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT By William Thorpe

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Some years ago, a Judge in Northern Virginia, who was a World War II veteran said this and I paraphrase to someone convicted and was about to be sentenced, that the convicted was the most violent person he had ever encountered. If my memory serves me right the accused was convicted of stabbing someone over 70 times !,of course it was a display of violence, but that is where we begin to cut our noses off to spite our face, because the issue and question isn't about the deed or act. Okay let's get at it, the Judge was a World War II veteran !!! come on the man had been in a war that birthed and witnessed the utter transformation of human behavior, Kids, were being crucified in the Ukraine, human beings were herded into enclosures and gassed as process of extermination, so many incendiary devices were used that the very air people breathed incinerated their lungs, perdition itself walked on two legs. There wasn't an aspect, facet and expression of human behavior and capacity that wasn't on full revelatory display, violence became just a pro forma default. I can indulge in the construct of superfluousness and become as that Northern Virginia Judge who had no problem in pronouncing the commission of an over the 70 times stabbing of a human by another human as being the most violent act he had ever encountered but I'll be disingenuous.

I started this work with the title PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT, because without the honest grasp of context what we end up doing is maintaining and supporting the sisyphean toil of warring with the quixotic windmills of the specific emergence at the expense of the systemic environment that permits, allows and enables specificity in the first place. The thing is the attitude and propensity to expend labor on the specific as it relates to the issue of crime and deviance, which necessitates the prison reform formulation has value for a segment of Virginia's population. In other words people make a living off maintaining the narrative of ignoring the systemic cause of the specific deed, or to state it, the beneficiaries of the status quo narrative of criminality and its opposition to reform see the relationship as the individuation of criminality irrespective of its heinousness as a culling of the herd albeit, a controlling mechanism that ensures that primary and fundamental focus on the business of being human, which is labor or work because without work or labor the necessary circumstances and conditions for human existence are nonexistent. Here is the contradiction that matures into antagonisms that exposes the human condition of idiocy, regardless of reason. Because as soon as we accept that humanity is capable of "behavior", period without gradation then our interaction and the subsequent relations stands on "context" and it is with context that we find that we have clay feet or that idealistic protection of that metaphorical "sacred bulls" or its other colloquial feint, "boys will be boys", with the flip side being context or mitigation is rarely, seldom or never given to the subjects and objects of the status quo narrative. Or in its other expression the subjects of the controlling motive and its various mechanisms are defacto less than, "other" and practically dehumanized, because if the very presence and existence of the human condition is context based or contextual and if there is wilful and deliberate intent and effort to ignore, overlook and deny, context then humanness itself is dehumanized. This brings me back to that World War II veteran Northern Virginia Judge, who had no problem in pronouncing the convicted before him as the most violent person he had ever encountered. In human affairs we get the place and purpose of hyperbole, but hyperbole is left to the circumstances of our everyday interactions and leadership and those with its bully pulpit, which a judgeship is category shouldn't indulge in it's undisciplined suppositionary speech, because it has far reaching consequences of distortional proportions, because the quintessential value of our human condition as expressed in the various social contracts, is that perfection of the unity of the people which reform or encompassing and utilitarian speech is basis. Yes "speech" distortions whether deliberate and insidious or colloquial ignorances can and will for a period serve exploitive ends of inducing disunity among the people while constantly struggling to stay a step ahead of the inevitable and inexorable reckoning and accountability. A quick example of this is the Confederate monument to Lee on Richmond's Monument Avenue and its encounter with the inevitable reckoning because it's existence was speech of disunity, which is the same space occupied by Virginia's anti-prison reform status quo and their short sightedness. There is nothing contradictory with the people of Virginia pursuing the repair of harm, what our speech of reform asserts is, Context.

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

A COUPLE OF RECENT SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES RULINGS THAT AFFECT VIRGINIA VICTIMS OF CRIME, VIRGINIA PRISONERS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS By William Thorpe

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The first case ELLINBURG v. UNITED STATES 607 U.S.163 (2026), was a January 2026 unanimous decision by the Court with Clarence Thomas writing a separate concurrence. The case deals with Victims Restitution, specifically THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION Act of 1996 and whether as it relates to the law, if its criminal punishment and if it can be applied retroactively or EX POST FACTO. The reason it made it to the Supreme Court of The United States is there was confusion over what is considered criminal, civil actions and retroactivity or what the Constitution of United States proscribes or prohibits as EX POST FACTO application or use of a law. Clarence Thomas in his concurrence outlined the history, however much of anything Clarence Thomas says has to be considered under the ulterior purpose motive and duplicity of serving one master that only has the singular objective of denying and depriving individual agency and imposing subservience and neo-feudalism and serfdom, so analysis from Thomas is perpetually suspect. Now since the decision of ELLINBURG, The Commonwealth of Virginia nor its Federal District, the Fourth Circuit have applied it, but Federal Circuits of the 2,7,8,9,11 the D.C. Circuit and the State of Tennessee have. The Commonwealth of Virginia has its own restitution or victim compensation law at, VIRGINIA CODE TITLE 19.2-368.1 [COMPENSATING VICTIM OF CRIME] and it has been developed in cases, UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON 638 F.Supp.1202 (where it defined that additional cost are form of punishment) also in COMMONWEALTH v. PUCKETT 302 VA.455 (2023) VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT went into the formulation of restitution, then in a VIRGINIA WORKERS COMP. CLAIM at 2017 VA.WRK.COMP.LEXIS 455 IN RE:BARBARA LEE PETITT FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION FUND [and it delves into Virginia's construction of "victim" for purposes of the law].People let me say this, yes all of this is Law and to state it simply its always up to the supremacy of the political moment meaning what The People understand, will tolerate and will put up with so just because we have such and such a ruling doesn't mean no more than that's what the People, their understanding or the politics is for that moment, because who would have thought that human beings would determine then accept the logic and its ruling that some of us are outside of law, which is exactly what the Supreme Court of the United States said a few years back that a President of the United States is outside of law, notwithstanding the fact that opposition to and a rejection of the presumption that any human is outside of law was the animating and creative force of the Nation. The point is as THE PEOPLE WE MUST TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES UNDERSTAND THE THINKING AND LOGIC THAT DEFINES OUR EXISTENCE AND OUR SELF REALIZATION, IF WE ARE ACTUALLY DETERMINED ON REALIZING OUR HUMANNESS ON OUR OWN TERMS. The second case is clear forward, reactionary justices on the Supreme Court of the United States are willing to deprive and deny Prisoners unable and incapable of paying the $350 filling fee to commence suit in federal court from splitting it. The case JOHNSON v. HIGH DESERT STATE PRISON 224 L.Ed.2d 179 was denied Certiorari meaning the lower courts ruling stands.

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 FORMULATION OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE ISN'T ABOUT THE SPECULATION OF GOOD OR BAD BUT TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION COMPREHENSIVELY REALIZED By William Thorpe

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If we understand John Adams response and I paraphrase, that our Nation is of laws and not men, then the question of system-integrity or the health of the Social Contract and the relative progress stands on the clear answer of the accountability-function and this is no more evident than on the question of "Justice, Equity and the Repair of Harm", which State organized-violence and it's imprisonment function approximates satisfaction. I BEGIN: There has been a low slow burning discussion and at times debate, among strata of Virginia prison reform advocacy and its crux, is, this new and nascent Administration empaneled by Governor Abigail Spanberger at the Virginia Department of Corrections, is good intentioned. The issue as John Adams stated, if we are a nation of laws and not men, which when the people are wide awake and paying attention, we are, then whether or not the Virginia prison official is good or bad is besides the point. The point and its only relevance is to what extent is the accountability-function performing its duty. Let's get into it, professional and instituted activities and establishments of Virginia's Social Contract, have standards, regulations, licensure, procedures, rules and practices that have all the components and elements of the accountability-function and its satisfaction. What we don't see or have is the asserted assumption and its speculation of the nature-value or good or bad of the human element. The nature-value and its realization or revelation is totally dependent on its subordination to the application of the accountability-function. In other words as soon as the socio-person or human being is depending on the nature-value of humanity or as it specifically relates to this work, the Virginia prison official to do what is "good or bad", the relationship or professional behavior can only be a sum total of assumptions, suppositions and speculations, notwithstanding the existence of means of applying the accountability-function. But as it concerns the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, the primary formulation that has to be unconditionally, unambiguously, unquestionably and unequivocally affirmed is Human Life. Just because accountability can be exacted and demanded of human life doesn't mean human life is dehumanized, denigrated, denied, diminished and degraded. There is no contradiction or antagonism to be found in this simple affirmation of human life. Where we do find contradictions and antagonisms is in its dehumanization which is reflective of impunity and that supposition of we are not a nation of laws, but of men as revealed in the above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official. As soon as there is resolution of the dehumanizing philosophy of the Virginia prison official against the Virginia prisoner and its rejection, refutation and repudiation of the nature-value of the prison official, then we can correctly engage on practical realization of Virginia's accountability-function.

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

DIRTY LAUNDRY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL, FROM ASSASULT THROUGH FABRICATION OF CHARGES ON THE VIRGINIA PRISONER: WHAT VIRGINIA'S CORPORATE MEDIA WON'T TELL YOU By William Thorpe

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There is one thing the various expressions of impunity have in common--The cover and umbrella of Law. So as much as corporate media enables and amplifies propagandizing the narratives of political gambits, under the pacification of, "law and order" it is petty misdirection. Nonetheless a misdirection that is comprehensively destructive in its comprise and expenditure of the People's faith and trust in their Constituted aspirations and will. Where we clearly see this, is in the practice of the Commonwealth's Justice Infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme and its exploitation of impunity by the Virginia prison official done under the cover and umbrella of the same law that permits the prison official to professionally exist. Listed in this are claims asserted by the Virginia prisoner against the Virginia prison official of egregious and malfeasant behavior, that Virginia's corporate media rarely educates the people of Virginia of existence.

DOE v. JOYNES 2026 U.S. DIST.LEXIS 50659 LAZARUS v. ZOOK 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 44399 DAVIS v. HICKS 2026 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 49127 JOHNSON v. VA.DEP'T OF CORR.2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 26669 SPRINGER v. VA. DEP:T OF CORR.2026 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 11844 BLAKE v. SARGENT 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 19880 BRAXTON v. CASEY 2026 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51277 COOPER v. WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 53815 LUMPKIN v. DAUGHERTY 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 265958 WALL v. McCOWAN 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 191706 CROCKETT v. VIRGINIA 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 183476 [this is a claim by a Virginia prison official against injurious behavior by her colleagues] GEORGE v. BROWN 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 259131 THOMAS v. PAMUNKEY REG'L JAIL AUTH. 2025 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 184811 ALLEN v. WALKER 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 224500 CARTER v. ELY 2025 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 37499 HAIRSTON v. SHELTON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 181340 MALCOLM MUHAMMAD v. FLEMING 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 193267 THOMAS v. DOTSON 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 226684 CROSBY v. MANIS 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 58824 QUEEN v. HERNANDEZ 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 82141 BROWN v. COLLIER 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 180205 CARTER v. COLLINS 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 51923 WRIGHT v. VA.DEP'T OF CORR. 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 161014 DEFOUR v. WHITE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 56423 BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 VA. APP.LEXIS 550 DAVIS v. KELLER 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 175713 SNODGRASS v. RICHARDSON 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 53114 JOHNSON v. RAPPAHNNOCK REG'L JAIL AUTH.2024 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 102074 ANDERSON v. CLARKE 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 164446 GIL v. DOE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 99609 PARSON v. Ms. UNKNOWN PALMER 2023 U.S. DIST.L EXIS 220403 MASON v. TALLEY 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 49795 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 50434 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 130088 WALL v. CLARKE 2023 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 53931 RIDDICK v. WHITE 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 94050 RIDDICK v. MATHENA 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 46396 RIDDICK v. TRENT 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 28373 CARTER v. COLLINS 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 99160 JOHNSON v. McCOWAN 2023 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 11824 WALL v. CLARKE 2021 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 224916 RIDDICK v. KISER 2021 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 142645 RIDDICK v. STANLEY 2021 U.S .DIST. LEXIS 147917 McCLENNY v .MEADOWS 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 221977 CARTER v .ELY 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 245331 BOONE v. EVERETT 671 FED.APPX. 864 (2016) [as an end note,to those minds who have the delusional position that prisoners are just sitting in these cages and filing any ole wily nilly claims,first of all it cost $350, to file a claim in Federal Court and the SUPREME COURT of THE UNITED STATES just made it more difficult to do so in this recent case, JOHNSON v. HIGH DESERT STATE PRISON 2026 U.S.LEXIS 1183]

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

WHAT THE CASE OF MR. VINCENT BAISI TEACHES ABOUT THE WORK OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By William Thorpe

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Normally I don't have to use out of Virginia incidents to illustrate the systemic malevolence of Prison Official impunity. But then comes along a case that simply encapsulates it, yup the malevolence of prison official impunity in all of its dehumanizing savagery and barbarism and not only does it do that, but it also reveals the pervasively rooted depth of its pernicious interstate nature. The case of Mr. Vincent Baisi is from the once upon a time used to geographically be Virginia, but is now the sister State West Virginia and the primary lesson that it instructs, is the reminder of that fish-eyed oblivious capacity we as human beings have for the humanness of our fellow self. However there is also redemption to be learned from Mr. Baisi's unconscionable experience at West Virginia's, WESTERN REGIONAL JAIL on November 27, 2023 as a pretrial detainee, because FEDERAL JUDGE ROBERT C. CHAMBERS OF THE U.S.DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA, HUNTINGTON DIVISION, rejected jail officials typical, indulgent, expectation of Judges turning a blind eye to their sadism and denied their motion for dismissal and Mr. Baisi's claims will proceed through what due process of law he's able to wrangle its accountability on the offending jail officials. I BEGIN: People, Mr. Vincent Baisi's experience of November 27, 2023 at the Western Regional Jail which is documented at In Re BAISI, 2026 U.S.DIST. LEXIS 40961 is nothing less than pure unbridled barbarism expressing a defacto and unconditional dehumanization of a socio-person and human being. Culturally we recognize the afflicted and battling illness person as a category to be given extra attention and when the affliction and illness is cancer it demands extra empathy. There are all sorts of intense philanthropy devoted and directed at the affliction and illness of cancer as such there isn't an American post-pubesence that isn't fully inculcated with the empathetic awareness that its victims and survivors require a level of attention. Well from the actions of WESTERN REGIONAL JAIL officials, Lieutenant James Phillips, Corporal Woods, Correctional Officer Casteel, Major Pauley, Correctional Officer Albright, Aaron Scarr, Dewayne E. Cyrus named as Defendants by Vincent Baisi of committing egregious and heinous harms, clearly rejected that fundamental American cultural empathy for the cancer survivor. Because upon his confinement at the Western Regional Jail, a medical Nurse who examined him, according to his claims told the named defendants that Vincent Baisi was a postoperative cancer patient who had undergone chemotherapy and should not be x-rayed. Which the named defendants ignored and x-rayed Mr. Baisi 17 times !!!, then he was handcuffed behind his back continuously for over seventy hours. People let that sink in, a known postoperative cancer patient with a hernia mesh was x-rayed over 17 times and left handcuffed behind his back for over seventy hours and all of this professional behavior was done with the callous privilege of, its been done before, maybe not in this specific manner, but the practice of dehumanization clearly wasn't novel requiring second thoughts to its practioners and perpetrators. Yes our corporate media and shamelessly opportunistic politicians will scream extrapolations of heinous deeds and acts when committed by the narratives of political gambits, yet rarely are we told of crimes of the prison official.

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 FOR OUR WORK OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA WE NEED CRITIQUE AMONG OURSELVES By William Thorpe

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The reason the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and its concurrent reform of imprisonment in Virginia, is herculean is because we have to shed ourselves of all the backwards thinking and concepts that have determined our idea of self and in extension how we see and are with the terms we are on and the relationship we have with The Commonwealth's Social Contract. How many Virginia families with members Imprisoned have thoughtlessly supported, endorsed and defended the savage and barbaric behavior of the Virginia prison official of meticulously and comprehensively dehumanizing their imprisoned family member by voting for Politicians who implicitly and explicitly provided cover for the Virginia prison official by philosophizing, justification for the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner? Still though we don't indict the people of Virginia for their thoughtlessness, what we will indict over is the unwillingness and reluctance by the people to accept that the only responsibility as duty is to pay attention, because as soon as we start paying attention we are 99% of the way to realizing Prison Reform. Because during the political debates and discourses of "who wants to assume leadership of the People", we can correctly frame questions as is needed to expose all those multitudes of flies in the ointment of all that is being done in the name of THE PEOPLE, because without the people there is no system, there is no one to be violated, there is no one to be subjected to hypocrisies, there is no one to be ruled, subjugated, controlled, there is no one for the feeble, small and idealistic minds to preen for, in so many words if no one is buying into the contradictory and antagonistic b.s, there is no need for the narratives as set in stone constructs of Virginia's Social Contract, then because we are paying attention we can honestly to the best of our ability exercise equality under law and its unity of the people. Currently the impunity of the Virginia prison official has two tracks, (1) the individual prison official's inherent disposition to savagery, sadism and masochism, then (2) the inherent systemic and structural corruption that is the system proper. Forever indicating and pointing out the impunity has been the work of reform advocacy. I think its time I addressed this point, there is that existing critique that the analysis and its speech of reform is diametrically opposite that of revolution and as a matter of fact the speech of reform is in service of and in collaboration with the status quo and if the strategy of reform is honest, with the clarity of doing the peoples work, the speech will be that of revolution. Well whether or not I'm in agreement or disagreement with either formulation is besides the point, the only aspect and element that is relevant in any Social Contract and for purposes of prison reform in Virginia, is the realization of the accountability-function. Meaning to what extent is our critique and analysis correct, practical in exposing and identifying contradictions and antagonisms, because those dehumanizing factors of the Virginia prisoner are not simply limited to just the petty-tyrannical savage urge fulfillment of the Virginia prison official, but are fundamental aspects of the entirety of Virginia's Social Contract as such any work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable is actually the work of demanding that the Commonwealth democratizes its articulated Constituted aspirations and we can only realize it by paying attention and self-critique.

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

WHY THE NEWLY MINTED "PAROLE" LAW--[and I place Parole in quotes] --VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1---ISN'T A STEPPING STONE BUT ANOTHER TIRED BRICK IN THE WALL By William Thorpe

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First of all it passed The Virginia House of Delegates as HB-1030 without any dissenting vote, then it passed the Virginia Senate unanimously and anything and I mean anything, that presently can receive consensus, meaning reactionary and supremacist Republicans agreeing with Democrats Nationally or State doesn't bode well, especially when the issue is Prisoner related, as such it clearly fits the bill of that proverbial mouth of a "gift horse".This newly minted Virginia law 53.1-151.1,titled SUITABILITY FOR RELEASE ON PAROLE DISCRETIONARY PAROLE CRITERIA GUIDELINES, is for all purpose practically insidious. It came out of a frame work structured by a couple of Virginia prisoners, Jonathan White and David Carmichael who like a sizable amount of Virginia prisoners, should be exempt from, Virginia's abolishment of parole but are being illegally and slyly subjected to it and violated, by what is for all practical purposes, the Ex Post Facto application of the 1995 abolishment of Parole, even though no one in Virginia's Government has the courage to state such. Their frame work that became 53.1-151.1 SUITABILITY FOR RELEASE ON PAROLE, was presented to the Virginia criminal justice reform advocacy group, VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, who then pitched it to Virginia Delegate Tony Wilt who relatively agreed and with his assistant Chad Funkhouser, crafted it into HB-1030.Along the way elements of Prison reform advocacy in Virginia, specifically, Kenneth Hunter of VIRGINIA INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, David Smith of S.A.L.T, Rob Poggenklass of JUSTICE FORWARD VIRGINIA, Taj Mahoney and Shawn Wanetta of THE HUMANIZATION PROJECT lent their labors to its existence.I BEGIN: The People least culpable for the insidiousness of 53.1-151.1 are THE VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, who have time and time shown to stand on the side of Parole doing its intent, because they can be excused for the ignorance of not clearly knowing and factoring in that Virginia prisoners as Jonathan White and David Carmichael along with all those others who still have the legal right to parole in Virginia are being illegally subjected to the dynamics of its1995 abolishment. The issue with Virginia prisoners legally eligible for parole, yet denied it under political gambits, particularly those of Virginia Republicans, isn't about a set of statutory guidelines, which were not in existence during the circumstances of imprisonment as such,(and here is where we find the insidiousness of 53.1-151.1) cannot be applied retroactively and the only implied justification for 53.1-151.1,is its retroactivity which is no where to be found in the law, because the only class of Virginia prisoners 53.1-151.1 applies to are those still legally eligible,yet it cannot.So it isn't any surprise and wonder why Virginia legislators, both reactionary and supremacist Republicans along with Democrats unanimously Ayed it, because its a win win for all of them to then claim Bonafide's on prison and criminal justice reform, knowing perfectly well that not only wouldn't it enable paroling Virginia prisoners, but it will now impede it as another unstated and undeclared ex post facto application. The issues with the games played by Virginia's Government over Parole as function of imprisonment is simply that of impunity and extra-judicial presumptions, which is where the debate should be. Because the status quo or the beneficiaries of Social Contract narratives want to exist outside of law and its imperatives which the People are subjected to, as such what we encounter are the conveniences of contradictions.

The flaw and it is a dehumanizing one, in the base animating logic of 53.1-151.1, is it continues that mindless argument, that the issue and problem is the very fact and existence of the Virginia Prisoner, as such the onus and purpose of the imprisonment is the prisoner's responsibility. Well this line of thinking stands without opposition and scrutiny, because the Virginia prisoner is mute in its formulation, yet its object. In other words whether or not the intellectual intent of its proponents is misanthropic is besides the point, the reality nonetheless is a defacto universal misanthropic stance with all of the Virginia People. Due to the history of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the fact that it hasn't been challenged and required to defend, its logic, what we have is that existence of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and 53.1-151.1 is another cobblestone. Because what we find in Virginia's imprisonment scheme is the imprisoned Virginian is not human simply on account of the condition. If Virginia's imprisonment scheme stands on the position that behavior is defined by dehumanization, then we should see The Commonwealth's Educational system as it prepares Virginia's youth for adulthood (because that's where we find its quintessential value) plying and practicing "dehumanization", and for certain Virginia demographics that is exactly what we see. But I make a more fundamental point, which is the people of the Commonwealth speaking as and through Government, are not simply sequestering the imprisoned Virginian but implying that the imprisoned Virginian is something less than the non-imprisoned and as such most be brought in line. Whether or not Virginians are prescient of this reality is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is the imprisoned Virginian due to the imposition of sentence will explicitly return to Society, which is implicit of the Commonwealth's pursuit of " bringing the prisoner in line", as such Virginia's imprisonment scheme has to defend only this one objective of realizing the imprisoned and returning Virginian into Society as a full and all around mature participant, anything less takes away any and all claims of legitimacy. Yet this isn't what we see, what we instead see is the Virginia prisoner is confronted with an existence that assumes and presumes humanness, because the humanness cannot be denied, yet abjectly and unconditionally is dehumanized in the most socially idealistic and speculative manner and we see this for example in 53.1-151.1with this.....["IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 1 RANGE, SUCH PRISONER SHALL RECEIVE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION FOR PAROLE.IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 2 RANGE,SUCH PRISONER MAY BE CONSIDERED A SUITABLE CANDIDATE FOR PAROLE.IF A PRISONER'S SCORE IS WITHIN THE TIER 3 RANGE SUCH PRISONER IS PRESUMED TO BE UNSUITABLE FOR PAROLE. IF THE PAROLE BOARD DEVIATES FROM THE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON THE DISCRETIONARY PAROLE CRITERIA WORKSHEET SCORE FOR A PRISONER SCORED AT TIER 1 OR TIER 3, THE BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A WRITTEN EXPLANATION FOR SUCH DEVIATION. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE BOARD FROM MAKING IT'S FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GRANT DISCRETIONARY PAROLE BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PRISONER".] (and I challenge any lawyer or legal scholar to show whether the pronouncements of 53.1-151.1 are worthy of its print paper).This is the crux, the exercise of imprisonment by the authority of organized violence in all its various forms, is a base antagonism of the human condition, as such is what we have to confront and wrangle accountability on. Accordingly it is the work of prison reform in Virginia and without confronting it what we end up with is a farce.

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

FIRST OF ALL THE COMMONWEALTH'S LEGAL AND POLITICAL-ECONOMY SCHOLARS ARE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND ON ANALYSIS OF PAROLE AS FUNCTION OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: This absence by The Commonwealth's scholars on issues and questions that define and defend the terms and relationship of Virginia's Social Contract isn't only limited to The Commonwealth's imprisonment scheme and its Justice Infrastructure, but, it cuts to a basic lack of analytic honesty of the very nature of Virginia's Political-economy formulations of the Social Contract. What has then historically passed as analysis of Virginia's political-economy are reactionary colloquial suppositions cloaked in Opinion Pieces spoon-fed the People of The Commonwealth by the Corporate Media, specifically, The Richmond Times-Dispatch. So on issues of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and accounts of the practices and professional behavior of the Virginia prison official, the Virginia people, in whose name the imprisonment scheme is imposed and executed are groomed under the guise of educative information by the existence of idealistic, reckless and self-serving pronouncements in Virginia's corporate media, to in rote form endorse such practices and professional behavior from the Virginia prison official without any second thoughts or any thought at all. We saw a classic example of this during the Virginia Republican exploitation of the abolish parole in Virginia gambit of 1995 under the leadership of the racist of Macaca infamy Republican Governor George Allen, with The Richmond Times-Dispatch being a pure and simple propaganda amplifier selling the People of The Commonwealth a bill of goods that to this day in 2026 is still that proverbial "gift horse in the mouth".We would think that after the Human Condition's monstrous encounters with articulations of a "Final Solution", this and a "Final Solution" that, those who would presume leadership and provide it's speech would at least recognize and realize that, notwithstanding and despite the passage of time, that inexorability of resolving the diametrical dialectic is inevitable, which is where we find the question and issue of Parole as function of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. There isn't any aspect of the Human Condition and its variegated Social Contract forms that isn't an approximate existence and the application of Justice as terms and relationship isn't exempt. As such the dogma of ideology shouldn't have any hint, any breath on it, which were our Virginia Scholars satisfying and fulfilling their function, We as The People would be equipped and armed with it's relative insight to grasp, that "certainty", exactitude as expressions of zealotry have no function in matters of Justice, which Parole as aspect of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and its Infrastructure is a derivative. Parole in Virginia has a genesis as its National presence. Which as analyzed in the 1833 case, UNITED STATES v. WILSON 32 U.S 150 [" Parole did not develop from any specific source or experiment but is an outgrowth of a number of independent measures: the conditional pardon, the apprenticeship by indenture, the transportation of criminals to America and Australia, the English and Irish experiences with the system of ticket-of-leave, and the work of American prison reformers during the nineteenth century"].So we see in 1942,the statutory creation of a Virginia Parole Board, with 5 members selected by the Governor, to grant, deny, revoke and supervise conditional release. Then in 1995 we see the abolishment of Parole in Virginia save for what is described as Geriatric Parole. We also find that Virginia legislators lied about the impact abolishing parole has on those pre its abolishing, because those prisoners are being denied Parole.

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 REAL QUESTION IS IMPRISONMENT IN VIRGINIA A PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN CAPITAL DESTROYING HARM ? By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: Virginia State and Federal Courts have fundamentally recognized, loss of earning capacity, human capital, opportunity and liberty as economic harm. Nonetheless, Courts have treated the loss of liberty as a primary baseline cost of imprisonment, but when conditions of the imprisonment exceed Virginia and United States Constitutional limits, causing measurable physical or psychological injury or deprive the prisoner of opportunities the State is not entitled to take then the harm becomes compensable and once harm is compensable, loss of productivity becomes a valid economic measure of damages. The question is also this, Virginia legislators along with the Courts bandy about supposed jurisprudential definitions of primary Social Contract terms as Liberty, Human Capital, Opportunity and Productivity that only are reflective of biases and interests, that require a general baseline of acceptance from the People of Virginia, in other words, if imprisonment is practiced in the name of the People of Virginia, it must and should require a denominator of cognizable purpose that is firmly in pursuit of the "unity of the people", yet its absence is what we have as observable facts of Virginia's Social Contract. So when the Commonwealth or State of Virginia deprives the Prisoner of opportunities it is obligated to provide, as codified in Virginia Law at Title 53.1,as mandated education, vocational training, rehabilitative programming or imposes conditions that destroy human capital, despite the fact that this formulation of issues of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is the least developed, the prisoner can then argue, you didn't just confine me, but you destroyed my productive capacity which you had no right to do. But because the Virginia citizenry isn't cued in on what is required for that perfection of the unity of the people or simply put that pursuit of unconditional equality under law, there isn't the necessary scrutiny of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, that will excavate it with clarity that it isn't a crass availability, a means of satisfying sadistic impulses. If imprisonment is supposed to be only a loss of liberty and the actual conditions destroy human capital, because the State of Virginia has purposefully and deliberately left vague and ill defined what its imprisonment conditions are beyond the deprivation of a relative and approximate freedom of action, what it presents then is the argument that Prison is not merely a deprivation of liberty but a State-engineered destruction of human capital. The State in its pursuit of Imprisonment may seize liberty, but it may not destroy the person and when it does the economic value of that destruction is compensable, because the State of Virginia primarily already sees the human being categorically in the political-economy terms of value. The State of Virginia as intimated and hinted by debates and fights over its imprisonment scheme in debates over overcrowding, solitary confinement, reentry, Department of Corrections budgets, rhetoric over Rehabilitation vs. Punishment. All of this reveal that Virginia knows that imprisonment destroys more than liberty, it destroys capacity, opportunity, and long term human potential. However no mainstream Virginia figure has the courage to say such outright, because saying it forces a moral and fiscal reckoning the State isn't prepared to face. Nonetheless every time the Virginia Politician talks about, workforce shortage, the need for "second chances" or the economic benefits of reentry programs is an implicit admission that the prison system suppresses human capital and reduces future productivity.

We also see this tacit admission in the fight against Solitary Confinement as exploited and deployed by the Virginia prison official, with opponents standing on arguments that show cognitive decline, psychological deterioration, and long term-functional impairment, which is the logic of "loss of productive capacity", just expressed in clinical terms. Virginia's wrongful conviction compensation is based on the idea that the State took more than it was entitled to take and the "economic value" of that loss must be repaid. We also see it in Juvenile Justice Reform, with the argument that Youth incarceration destroys, educational trajectories, earning potential and life time opportunity which are explicitly without euphemisms describing human capital destruction. What all of this shows and reveals is that systemic fly in the Social Contract ointment of The Commonwealth of Virginia, which fundamentally is an unwillingness to unconditionally without qualification recognize Human Life. Because the recognition of human life is due to the acceptance and understanding of terms of interaction and its stability as Law and its process that is due in its application. But because human life is recognized "conditionally", meaning it isn't accepted equally under law, which then reveals impunity or abuse, mistreatment, violations under the generality as, dehumanization. In otherwards even as the Social Contract as political-economy valuation and terms of relation of human life are firmly grounded as basis of the human condition and its variegated expressions. We see it accorded distinctions, classes, groupings, characteristics that show an extreme form of intellectual dysfunction and conceptual confusion irrespective of basis, even though purporting to realize the intellectual work of maintaining the social contract, what we see is just a crass indulgence of cutting off the nose to spite the face. In other words, even as human life is denigrated and dehumanized, it still is the only means and mechanism of actualizing value or that one and only purpose of it as the business of creating those conditions and circumstances for the existence of human life. Now, despite these herculean efforts of misinformation we as a people are bombarded with, by all the idealistic reactionary agents of futility, we are not stuck and caught up in an informational black hole of decrepit models of the ignorance's of the human condition. As a people we might not readily posses the characterizing language of our experienced antagonisms, but that doesn't mean that for example we are blind to the fact that if The Commonwealth will use the imprisonment model as application of its justice, the imprisoned shouldn't be subjected to conditions and circumstances that destroy their humanness. There is nothing about Virginia's construct of imprisonment that can be shown to be nothing less than sadism as implicit attitude towards human life and this isn't even indictment based on Virginia's history of the chattel enslavement of Black People, instead what we state is imprisonment cannot continue as its surrogacy.

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

IMPRISONMENT IS THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IMPLICITLY REQUIRING UNITY OF SPEECH By William Thorpe

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Speech for purposes of our Human Condition and in extension, formulations of the Social Contract is everything. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is the governing administration of Government meaning, compulsion and its organized violence medium, which is expressed and for purposes of this work takes on the character of imprisonment and the function of the Virginia Prison Official. As such there has to be a unity of understanding among the people of what is being done in their name by the Virginia prison official, who is privileged with the task of administering imprisonment. This unity of understanding among the people is, primarily and basically achieved and realized as "equality under law and its due process" or holding the Virginia prison official accountable. Despite the fact the Commonwealth has a lattice of the availability of process, implying that potential of accountability or the accountability-function of the governing imperative it exist idealistically, meaning it is not satisfying its intended function and this impracticality is the achilles of Virginia's Social Contract. My motive is how do we subordinate the Virginia prison official to the will of the People of Virginia, meaning that actuality of accountability. I BEGIN: The Commonwealth of Virginia is a constituent of the People, but when we get into the nuts and bolts of not only is what, but who are the people, that's when we are confronted with layers upon layers of its compromise or impunity, meaning who falls into the category of the controlled and the controlling, which naturally has its logic and sophistry in defense. What I want to introduce with this work is this. The Governor or Executive of the Commonwealth is Constitutionally required to declare, "what is the state of the Commonwealth ", to the People via both branches of Virginia's Government, specifically both houses of their elected Representatives in the Legislature and The Virginia Supreme Court. This address is a sort of pro forma availability to the People of The Commonwealth and its implicit satisfaction of a level of the accountability-function. However it is idealistic and has long lost its intended function and intent. Because not only are the people alienated from its substance, even when asserted, they don't experience and feel that there is any illusion that they are considered and taking into account and to give the Commonwealth credit, this unity of understanding compromise isn't a deliberate ploy and insidious calculation on the part of the system in general, but its a result of the means and forum of availability. What we expect and require of Virginia's Government is responsiveness and its ensuing natural state of under actual due process of law. So what we as the people of Virginia ask for is a Constitutional amendment and legislation requiring, that the Governor and all Department heads or designee, post state of the Commonwealth address immediately present and make themselves available to the People of The Commonwealth at locations representing the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southwestern parts of The State, for no less than an hour to answer questions from the people or representative groups based on practical formula. This availability should not be construed to relitigate electoral issues that were completely, thoroughly and exhaustively debated during the campaign process, which the people resolved by stating their intentions with the ballot. This presents the People that specific opportunity for example to publicly question.

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

William Thorpe and the Long Arc of Virginia’s Carceral History

 

How one incarcerated writer diagnoses four centuries of punishment in Virginia

William Thorpe’s writing does not merely critique the modern Virginia Department of Corrections. It anticipates and exposes the entire historical character of imprisonment in Virginia, from the colonial era to the present. When you place his arguments alongside the documented evolution of Virginia’s punishment system, the continuity is unmistakable. Thorpe is not describing an aberration — he is describing a 400‑year operating system.

Below is the full comparative analysis.

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I. Colonial Virginia (1607–1776): Punishment as Social Control

Historical Character

• No real prison system; jails were temporary holding pens.
• Punishment was public, corporal, and meant to humiliate.
• Law existed to protect hierarchy, not justice.
• Enslaved Africans were controlled through violence, not courts.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe repeatedly argues that Virginia’s system was never designed for justice, only for domination. His insistence that the state’s power structure is inherently corrupt and self‑protective mirrors the colonial reality exactly. He writes as if he knows — intuitively — that the system’s moral foundation was rotten from the beginning.

Thorpe’s core claim:
“This system was built to control, not correct.”
That is precisely the colonial model.

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II. Antebellum Virginia (1776–1861): Two Systems, One Logic

Historical Character

• Virginia builds the Richmond Penitentiary in 1796.
• Reform rhetoric for white offenders; labor discipline for them.
• Enslaved people remain under a separate, extrajudicial regime of violence.
• Criminal law is selectively applied.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s writing is obsessed with dual systems — one for the powerful, one for the powerless. He describes:

• selective enforcement
• manufactured criminality
• racialized punishment
• the state’s refusal to apply its own rules to itself

This is exactly the antebellum structure:
a penitentiary for whites, and a plantation prison for Blacks.

Thorpe is diagnosing the same split logic: punishment as a tool of racial hierarchy.

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III. Reconstruction & Jim Crow (1865–1900): Criminalization Replaces Slavery

Historical Character

• Black Codes and vagrancy laws criminalize freedpeople.
• Convict leasing and chain gangs extract labor from Black bodies.
• The penitentiary becomes a racial labor machine.
• The state discovers the economic value of incarceration.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

This is where Thorpe’s writing becomes prophetic.

Thorpe argues that:

• conviction is the new slavery
• prisoners are commodities
• officials profit from captivity
• the system is racialized by design

He is describing the exact logic of convict leasing — the most brutally exploitative period in Virginia’s penal history. Thorpe’s analysis of economic extraction, racial targeting, and bureaucratic cruelty is a direct continuation of the post‑war carceral economy.

He is writing from inside the afterlife of slavery, and he names it with precision.

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IV. 20th Century: Bureaucratic Expansion & Administrative Violence

Historical Character

• More prisons, more categories of offenses.
• Parole boards, classification systems, administrative layers.
• Racial disparities deepen.
• The system becomes more “professional,” but not more humane.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s critique of:

• administrative opacity
• procedural cruelty
• “policy as punishment”
• officials hiding behind paperwork

…is exactly how historians describe the 20th‑century shift from overt domination to bureaucratic domination.

Thorpe understands that cruelty no longer needs a whip — it only needs a form, a policy, a signature.

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V. Post‑1995 Virginia: Abolition of Parole & Permanent Warehousing

Historical Character

• Parole abolished for new offenses.
• Truth‑in‑sentencing entrenches long‑term confinement.
• Pre‑1995 prisoners stranded in a system that pretends to offer release.
• Mass incarceration becomes the default.

Thorpe’s Anticipation

Thorpe’s writing on:

• the collapse of parole
• the political weaponization of “public safety”
• the abandonment of rehabilitation
• the moral bankruptcy of VADOC

…is a direct continuation of the historical arc. He is describing the logical endpoint of a system that has always preferred control over correction.

Thorpe sees that Virginia’s modern prison system is not a break from the past — it is the past perfected.

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VI. The Continuity: Thorpe’s Central Insight

Across all eras, Thorpe identifies the same structural traits that define Virginia’s punishment system:

1. Control over justice

From colonial whipping posts to modern classification systems.

2. Racial hierarchy as the organizing principle

From slave codes to Black Codes to disproportionate sentencing.

3. Economic extraction from captive bodies

From plantations to convict leasing to prison labor.

4. Bureaucratic self‑protection

From planter courts to modern DOC administrators.

5. Manufactured criminality

From vagrancy laws to modern “technical violations.”

Thorpe’s writing is not merely commentary — it is a theory of the Virginia carceral state, one that aligns with every major historical phase.

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VII. Conclusion: Thorpe as a Historian of the Present

Thorpe’s work anticipates the entire history of Virginia’s imprisonment scheme because he is living inside its final form. His writing is the culmination of four centuries of:

• racial control
• economic exploitation
• bureaucratic cruelty
• political manipulation

He is not just describing the system — he is revealing its deep structure, the part that has remained unchanged from 1607 to 2026.

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