THIRD SUNDAY IN MAY IS VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY: 2026 STATEMENT FROM VAPAC

On May 21st, 2023 We at VAPAC inaugurated the principle of VIRGINIA PRISONERS DAY, with the format which we still continue in 2026, as its motive force, being a Virginia People's affair. Meaning, instead of a centralized, top down marshalling and regimentation of action, Family, Friends and allies of the Virginia Prisoner, who are proximately closest and most intimate with the Virginia Prisoner, with shared interests, desires and determinations must be the ones, to formulate and encapsulate how to mark The Virginia Prisoners Day and in this we established the principle. All of us at VAPAC have family and loved ones under Virginia's imprisonment scheme, we all have our very own experiences dealing with Virginia's imprisonment scheme, whether personally through the various points of interaction with the Virginia Department of Corrections or from accounts and narratives from our imprisoned loved ones and as a matter of fact in this we share a commonality with victims of crime, despite the fact conventional wisdom works double overtime under the manipulation of politicians who exploit the pain and harm of crime, to maintain an insidious and idealistic wedge between Family of Prisoners and victims of the harm of crime, in all its forms, not just its selective and politically exploited accentuation. Accordingly on the Third Sunday in May Virginia Prisoners Day we sharpen our focus, strengthen our resolve to continue in the work of speaking up for the constant and consistent reform of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, as such we again stand in Solidarity and Strength raising our voice for accountability and reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. We also recognize that there might come a time in the future, where, the Family, Friends and Allies of the Virginia Prisoner will find it necessary and sensible to organize the Virginia Prisoners Day in a more centralized orientation, we leave it to that moment. Also We at VAPAC want to currently introduce another point of focus for this 2026 Virginia Prisoners Day, as we mark it, which is we should also identify those Virginia politicians and legislators who seem not to ever get enough of the hypocrisy of exploiting the issue of Virginia Prison Reform by standing in it's way. So Family, Friends and Allies of the Virginia Prisoner, let's stand and raise our voice on this 2026 Virginia Prisoners Day for Reform and adherence to the Accountability-function of the governance of the Commonwealth of Virginia of the Justice Infrastructure and the Imprisonment Scheme.

#VaPrisonersDay #MayVAThirdSunday . IN STRENGTH---VAPAC

PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA AND THE ROLE FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ALLY: A LEAD By William Thorpe

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Okay the question isn't whether reform is a must because as soon as that first Human Being was subjected to the condition of the organized violence of Imprisonment, the dialectic of its reform was also birthed. The only question the various Social Contracts of the Human Condition contend with are terms of the reform. So in the Commonwealth of Virginia the dynamic of Prison Reform or in other words the Justice Infrastructure is an intrinsic permeating and animating value of the daily FACTS of the human business of existence, irrespective of to what degree its awareness is appreciated and all of this is what in another form is characterized as the secrets and mysteries of the machinery of accountability or that regardless of designation and name, Government. Well and here is where proximity asserts its significance, because, despite the function of our homosapien brain and its comprehensive interaction and interrogation of the environment, in other words the degree of paying attention and the accompanying presence of mind, without proximity or that immersion into that object of reform, (which its relevance to this work is the Virginia Prison and the role of family, friends and ally) our ability to arrive at that practicality of the reform, becomes just another speculative and idealistic endeavor or enterprise and we have too many of these experiences in our history to learn from, with the most recent addition as that farcical Parole reform law foisted by Del. Tony Wilt (R) along with the entirety of Virginia's Legislature, which by the way had its genesis from the short circuiting synapses of certain Virginia prisoners, who clearly epitomize and embody that adage of, "two wrongs don't make a right", because the wrongs of Virginia's Parole scheme sure as hell won't be fixed by a gimmick every single Virginia Politician and Legislator agreed with and voted for, when those same legislators won't and can't agree on a simple and basic truth that the President of the United States is a convicted felon and adjudged sexual assaulter and we are supposed to hurrah in satisfaction that those minds and hearts and the resulting judgement gave us reform of a reluctance to break away from a scheme and its ahumanistic and dehumanizing origins?.So with that said and with what it instructs that, proximity permits that honesty necessary for reform and not exploitive gimmicks, what, then confronts us in this work of reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is to achieve that critical proximity and proximity in this context has nothing to do with a type of material condition, for example, imprisonment. Because as we have been shown by that Tony Wilt law and its prisoner collaboration, prisoners are equally capable of comprising interest. So proximity then has to be appreciated from the vantage of opposition to within the Social Contract construct, a dehumanizing formulation, which even the most backwards Virginia Republican reactionary acknowledges that the dynamic of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is dehumanization. So what role family, friends and ally of the Virginia prisoner can then perform which then assumes, a practicality that currently isn't present in and absent from work that is already being done? There isn't a one absolute response, but an approximate one that factors in the speech or activity of the socio-person of the categories we are focusing on. HAVE WE CONSIDERED THE EFFECT A GROUPING OF OUR 15 to 25 year old DEMOGRAPHIC OF PRISONER FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND ALLIES ORGANIZING AROUND SPECIFIC VIRGINIA PRISON ISSUES, THEN PRODUCING DECLARATIONS WILL HAVE?

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

EVEN IN GOD, THE EXISTENCE OF THE DEVIL UNDERSCORES THE ABSENCE OF UNANIMITY----SO WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT THE UNANIMITY OF VIRGINIA LEGISLATORS INFERNALLY BIRTHING THE LAW HB-1030 AS ANOTHER ANTI-PAROLE GIMMICK By William Thorpe

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I analyzed HB-1030 in an earlier work, as "........ANOTHER TIRED BRICK IN THE WALL". At that time Governor Abigail Spanberger hadn't acted upon it, but as of now HB-1030 is Virginia Law to be implemented on July 1,2027 and only the insidious or enfeebled brain will claim it in any justifiable and legitimate manner. Yes it is the brain child of a couple of Virginia prisoners and no where is it mandated that only Republican voters suffer the acting against their interests neurosis, prisoners are also quite capable of anti self-interest speech. This work isn't to go back over why HB-1030 is a fraudulent and Frankenstein creation. Instead what I intend on doing is emphasizing that one and only fundamental point, which in all things Social Contract, is systemically veneered over and there is nothing more systemic than human behavior and it's just as equally systemic idealistic consequence and response, because the alternative, which Virginia Legislators under the Republican worldview of Del.Tony Wilt-R-34th District have just again compromised and eviscerated, is to actually and unconditionally embrace the critical process of what is in the general interest of that a priori and primary enterprise of the human business of existence. No one and I emphasize no one expects and anticipates omniscience, hell regardless of it's canned and exploited sophistry not even the Jeffersonian "nature's God" lays claim to omniscience or we wouldn't encounter for instance, the "WHEN, IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS," speech, so if the very fact of human existence and condition are approximate circumstances, why would Mr. Tony Wilt and his Virginia legislator brethren give us the gimmicks of presumptions on issues as cut to the bone and fundamental as crime and the repair of the caused harm, which the dynamic of parole is an inevitable vector? Because say what you will about human nature, the anticipatory motive of accountability, meaning how do we improve on a fact is ever present notwithstanding the nihilism of Mr. Wilt's Conservative World-View and its idealistic stagnancy. As such the fact that, regardless of ones narcissistic certitude, nothing, no judgement, no conclusion, no determination is ever final and complete and this nature of relations accordingly intimated at the utility and legitimacy of Parole as aspect of a justice infrastructure and the intention of repairing harm to fellow human and under the terms of the Social Contract, the Socio-person which the Commonwealth of Virginia recognized it's mitigative effects as structural lattice for the existence of a stable and salutary environment for the pursuit and maintenance of the human business or work of existence. I BEGIN: Del. Tony Wilt-R-34th District, in regards to HB-1030 is attributed to having made these comments, in a recent WHSV-Richmond article. "We spend a lot of energies, a lot of money and educating, providing educational opportunities for our inmates to educate them "[and it continues] "If we're looking towards the point, the time that they might no longer be [incarcerated], they would be back out in the public that they have something tangible that can help carry them through". [and it continues] Wilt reportedly also said " Public Safety remains a key concern with the new bill [HB-1030]" and "that not everyone [prisoners] will be fit for release".What the above excerpts convey are ideology and dogma.

When we speak of narcissistic certitude, the above excerpted comments attributed to Mr. Wilt are prime exhibits. Because nothing conveyed by them, indicates even begrudgingly an inkling that Virginia's imprisonment scheme with Parole, isn't a step child but a favored first born. In other words the imprisonment scheme is an approximation, which its many mitigative fronts as Virginia's Due Process of Law from, appellate review, to exonerations through Parole, Pardons and Commutations, even that final, arbiter, the Speech of Social Upheaval, prove and justify. So the only way we can access Mr. Wilt's comments on the motive of his HB-1030, Parole Law is through the nihilistic dogma of his Conservative ideology and World-View and despite the fact that it's typecast interpretation of the human condition is what passes as analysis in the Commonwealth's terms of its Social Contract, it's distortions, deceptions and idealistic delusions are still that, whether wielded in Virginia's antebellum political-economy or its current and contemporary formulation, it is still serving and pursing its historical intent. First of all Mr. Wilt's World-View doesn't have any ground as basis to orient any critique of anything from, when it is simply incapable of pointing out the simple truth, that selective criminalization despite, its historically tolerated existence becomes nemesis to that Social Contract requisite of the Peoples "faith and trust" in the accountability-function of Due Process of Law, when it reaches and attains the critical mass of brazenness that as a People we are Nationally subjected to. Because the only way the Wilt World-View can square pronouncements on Virginia's imprisonment scheme relative to the HB-1030 monstrosity is the imprisoned attains another status of being that isn't human and without value to both the human condition and as Social Contract socio-person. Now under the speech of Virginia's antebellum political-economy such hypocrisies and delusions had value in maintaining its super structure, because when all the forearms in the trough are washing off blood who will dare comment on the gore. In other words due to the shared dehumanizing dialectic who would be that pot calling the kettle black, which is what we find in this ongoing characterization of "justice and repair of harm".What we have is the Virginia Department of Corrections being the highest expression of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Productivity. Now if we are to carry Mr. Wilt's thought as stated in his " We spend a lot of energies, a lot of money and educating, providing educational opportunities for our inmates to educate them", to a logical metric, then the next formulation is why isn't this "lot of energies, a lot of money and educating" done before that possibility and probability of imprisonment?. Secondly as we trudge along with Mr. Wilt, we find his, "If we're looking towards the point, the time that they [prisoners] might no longer be [incarcerated], they would be back out in the public that they have something tangible that can help carry them through". Studying Mr. Wilt's comments you can't help but see how teeth pulling all of it is for him, he's clearly uncomfortable. Still though Mr. Wilt is no more prescient or sagacious than the most basic and frazzled Virginia psychology dealing with the daily contradictions and antagonisms of the Social Contract, which is the only denominator we hold his World-View to account, because, again if his HB-1030 parole law is lattice for construct of the Virginia socio-person, then why isn't it applied to the pre-imprisoned ?

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

TWO FORMULATIONS OF SPEECH AS VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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There are those who hold the position that SPEECH isn't in the first class of Human Activity and that stuff we do with our limbs isn't and shouldn't be characterized as SPEECH, well I disagree, because SPEECH regardless, the vantage of interrogation is a priori and quintessential ACTIVITY. I BEGIN: The Commonwealth of Virginia is constituted on a proposition of Human Activity, as fundamentally that realization of the business of human existence and being as organizationally impelled. The Commonwealth of Virginia in this aspect isn't unique, because that is the general nature of life impelled. However considering the fact that my work and focus is on reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, my scrutiny is on Virginia's myriad and variegated expressions of its constituted Speech as business of human existence. When we speak of "beginnings", generally it induces misconceptions or a fun house mirror image distortion, because the actuality and its correctness that we assume definition, is not being described on the honesty that our words, only approximate a grasp of behavior that require quantum appreciation, as such what happens is a construct of suppositions, that we sub, un or consciously, due to that homeostatic impelling must now defend as absolute, which in fact is quite hilarious, buffoonish and revelatory of that human natural state of defensively weaponizing revelling in ignorance as hedge against the self-consciousness, or indictment, that our behavior and attitude belie and are at the expense of the awareness that our conclusions assume quantum vantage. So with this in mind, meaning, if a beginning is merely an approximate construct, then our applications of exactitude, certitude and the jurisprudential process of Law have to be tempered in accord, because what it tells us is the process of human business, preceding and antecedent is the accountability-function as proof of the Systemic critique. Those self-conscious revelers in the ignorance of opposing Virginia prison reform, formulate speech, that stands at odds with for example this, "THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT THE POLICE POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH SHALL NEVER BE ABRIDGED. Va. Const. Art. IX sec.6.THE POLICE POWER IS BEST DESCRIBED AS THE COMMONWEALTH'S INHERENT POWER, AS A SOVEREIGN TO ENACT LAWS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, PEACE, MORALS, EDUCATION AND GOOD ORDER OF THE PEOPLE AND TO LEGISLATE SO AS TO INCREASE THE INDUSTRY OF THE STATE, DEVELOP IT'S RESOURCES AND ADD TO ITS WEALTH AND PROSPERITY" [quoted from ARCHER v.VA. BD.OF DENTISTRY 2026 Va App. Lexis 114].What this ARCHER quote again shows is if a formulation is approximate, meaning its substance and terms are always developing, becoming more clear and in focus implying a robustness of debate as process of reform, then everything about Virginia as constituted speech speaks to the substance of reform as revealed through the class of Virginians most embodying that constituted speech, which stands as LAW. What I'm saying is something more than the assertion that the Virginia prisoner is "subject of law", what I'm saying is the Virginia prisoner is the class most lawful. This isn't contradictory. If Virginia's constituted SPEECH is Law and the one class of Virginians most intimately proximate to it are Virginia prisoners, because it created them, then they are the most lawful.

I recognize how discordant this fact, that the imprisoned person is the most Lawful of all the Classes of Society and as it relates to this work, Virginia's Social Contract and that is exactly the point. Because it isn't that the Virginia socio-person isn't capable of understanding and attaining the cognition of the correctness of THE SPEECH FORMULATION constituting Virginia, but they're not called upon to grasp that SPEECH is the driver, despite the fact that it is the arbiter of daily existence as socio-person, in other words suppositionary definitions and determinants then surrogately present that fun house mirror image distortion of THAT ALL SO REAL SPEECH FORMULATION, which then enables that petty-tyranny expressed as, in this instance the impunity and above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official and the general corruption of the system or Social Contract, which is subsequently critiqued as an inherency. Before I continue let me give you how BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY defines, LAWFUL: Not contrary to law permitted by law [and it continues under LEGAL and LEGAL is defined as Of or relating to law falling within the province of law. 2 Established, required, or permitted by law.3. Of or relating to law as opposed to equity].Now no one struggles with the fact that Society or the Social Contract is constituted Law, meaning everyone falls under the ambit of law, every aspect, fact, interaction and activity are artifacts of law, even when an act is at odds with it, the reason the act is at odds is because of Law and not because of its commission. What Law characterizes is context which is a primary denominator of the Human Condition and the business of existence. What I'm showing is despite the fact that we are not called upon to be as comprehensive in our daily grasp of the basic formulations of the Social Contract, which by the way, the process of formative education or critical analysis is intended to inculcate and should instinctually orient our daily speech, but due to the shortsightedness of reaction and its one-dimensional pursuit of value exploitation, under the analogous thought, that the less we as the socio-person critically think the easier or efficient it is to Capitalize our existence, its habit of taking stuff for granted as if definitions, descriptions, characterizations, contextualization are a result of...[Genesis 2:19 and 20]...when the fact is regardless of whatever the biblical Genesis and its kindred plays in ones existence, it doesn't absolve the responsibility of correctly understanding that the Commonwealth of Virginia is constituted SPEECH and the quality of it's human business of existence or the socio-person's is defacto dependent on understanding and cognition. So even as the individual Virginia socio-person might not ascribe to and will even react to certain attitudes and characterizations as viscerally vile and offensive, those vile and anathema attitudes are being perpetrated in their name. We see this rampantly present in the SPEECH of VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME. So even as it is generally accepted that, Due Process of Law Mandates of Virginia and United States Constitutions have a real and substantial anticipation and expectation, meaning the accused must have Legal Representation, see how Virginia's Governance handled this fact..."THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ARGUED IN BOUNDS THAT PROVIDING LAW LIBRARIES TO INMATES IS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY, GIVEN THAT PRISON WRIT WRITERS ARE " ILLEQUIPPED. TO USE THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION".YET,IN GIARRATANO, VIRGINIA ARGUED THAT LAW LIBRARIES CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY BY THESE SAME PRISONERS". [excerpted from MURRAY v. GIARRATANO: A REMEDY REDUCED TO A MEANINGLESS RITUAL pub. in 39 Am.U.L.Rev.765 by GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR. What I'm showing with these excerpts as representative of TWO FORMULATIONS OF SPEECH AS VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME, is simply that impunity and its above-the-lawism isn't specifically an administrative process of bureaucracy run wild, but its a dynamic of inattentiveness and a second guessing by the People of Virginia in whose name everything has its approximate beginnings. In other words authority is first and foremost a dictatorship irrespective of formulation, which the context of formulation is how revelatory is the mechanism of the dictatorship. What I'm stressing is, yes there is substantial meaning in the description of Virginia's constituted speech, which we encounter in ARCHER v. VA. BD. of DENTISTRY 2026 VA.APP.LEXIS 114 as long as We The People of Virginia recognize it as such, [and here is we find dictatorship], because how are we as the people grasping and understanding... "THE COMMONWEALTH'S INHERENT POWER AS SOVEREIGN"[?], because "sovereign" stands firstly as singular and as soon as there is interaction, meaning once we encounter another human who is also sovereign, now we have an association or a cognizable and contextualized social contract, the basis of the interaction or association is of less significance, it could even be fatal, what is relevant nonetheless is it was SPEECH or ACITIVITY and this is that granular or quantum grasp which in order to compel, reform and for the specific focus of this work, reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, we must appreciate and function within its clarity. Everything elucidated and instructed in ARCHER as the Sovereign Police Powers of The Commonwealth of Virginia are specific and substantial basis demanding and commanding reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, yet its opponents exist causing the one and only question on what Right? Because the current state and condition of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is absolutely incompatible with the contextualization of its Police Powers, that stands first and foremost on the incontrovertible fact that the imprisoned Virginian is a Human Being and Sovereign. Because negating this fundamental fact isn't denial or abrogation of the humanness of the imprisoned Virginian, but rather it only reveals the value of Virginia's Speech or Virginia's Social Contract isn't to be trusted. Virginia's Social Contract is corrupt, Virginia's Social Contract is merely a perverted Supremacist construct a step ahead of its inexorable and inevitable accounting and we see it, in formulations of Speech or Activity that can only be classified as schizophrenic. From the Speech of the Virginian Thomas Jefferson of the Declaration of Independence authorship, whose declarations conversed his hypocrisies back to him revealing the context of a "sound mind" is also the purview of a diseased one. What was the value of the enslaved Africans to Jefferson and his ilk, wasn't it the fact they were Human? Even as the Jeffersonian world view denied it ?.My contention is we see the same thing with the Virginia Prisoner treated as "subject" of Law, when the quintessential formulation of the Speech reveals and points to the irrefutable fact that if Virginia's Speech is Constituted Law then the only class of Virginian embodying it is the Prisoner.

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

ATTENTION FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA PRISONERS By William Thorpe

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I'm on record for being critical of Virginia Law School's and Legal Scholars for their apathy and neglect in critiquing the Professional Behavior and Practices of the Virginia Prison Official and its implicit analysis of Virginia's Social Contract and I stand unopposed in the criticism. Nonetheless Legal elements representing interstate Legal Academia have produced extensive work critiquing the Politics of Imprisonment, which includes Virginia's. Listed below are a listing of Titles, Journals the works are published in which can be accessed either on the Net or Legal Clinics and authors. What Families and Friends of the Virginia prisoner can do is share this list with them and by the way this list is relevant to all Prisoners across the Nation for those who want to attain that necessary and deep understanding of the Social Contract basis of the Justice Infrastructure and Imprisonment scheme. Also I ask that Prisoner Families and Friends read and study these works because it isn't just about us Prisoners in these cages. BELOW IS THE LIST.

INVOLVING INCARCERATED PEOPLE IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS pub.in 59 U.Rich.L.Rev. 787 by DANNY ZEMEL DUE PROCESS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: IT'S TIME TO OVERRULE SANDIN AND REVISE WILKINSON pub.in 101 Neb. L. Rev. 487 by RUSSELL E. LOVELL II CRUEL, UNUSUAL, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL: AN ORIGINALIST ARGUMENT FOR ENDING LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT pub.in 56 Am.Crim.L.Rev.1759 by MERIN CHERIAN BEYOND CRUEL AND UNUSUAL: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND DIGNITARY INTERESTS pub.in 68 Ala.L.Rev.1117 by SHELBY CALAMBOKIDIS [who knew Univ. of Alabama had a Law Journal also its cited in APODACA v. RAEMISCH 586 U.S.931] CACERAL INTENT pub.in 27 Mich. J- Race and L.323 by DANIELLE C. JEFFERIS THE UNKNOWNS OF THE KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENT: REVISITING THE DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE STANDARDS IN PRISONER HEALTHCARE pub.in 115 J. Crim. L. and Criminology 715 by MALINA J. SIMARD-HALM ANATOMY OF LEGAL IMMUNITY: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN PRISON HEALTH CARE pub. in 28 Quinnipiac Health L. J. 177 by AJOKE M.ADETULA THE OBVIOUS VIOLATION EXCEPTION TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY pub.in 99 Wash. L .Rev.725 by BAILEY D. BARNES THE PUZZLE OF PRISONERS AND RIGHTS:AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF FRANK JOHNSON pub.in 71 Ala. L. Rev. 665 by JUDITH RESNIK LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE AS DEATH WITHOUT DIGNITY pub. in 72 Ala. L. Rev.327 by BRITTANY L. DEUTCH [cited in DORSEY v. SMITH 975 N.W.2d 356] TAKING CORRIGIBILITY SERIOUSLY pub. in 28 Berkeley J. Crim. L 35 by DORA W.KLEIN EXCESSIVE SENTENCING REVIEW: EIGHTH AMENDMENT SUBSTANCE AND PROCEDURE pub.in 132 Yale L .J. F. 75 by MATT KELLNER INSIDE AMERICA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: THE SUPREME COURT ON THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED AND THE INCARCERATED: KEYNOTE ARTICLE: THE MODEST EFFECT OF MINNECI v. POLLARD ON INMATE LITIGANTS pub.in 46 Akron L. Rev. 287 by ALEXANDER VOLOKH SOUND PRINCIPLES, UNDESIRABLE OUTCOMES: JUSTICE SCALIA'S PARADOXICAL EIGHTH AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE pub.in 50 Akron L. Rev. 301 by MIRKO BAGARIC and SANDEEP GOPALAN PREGNANT IN CAPTIVITY: ANALYZING THE TREATMENT OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN AMERICAN PRISONS AND IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS pub.in 71 Ala. L .Rev. 867 by WESLEY SMITHART WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PROMISE AMID PERIL, PREA'S EFFORTS TO REGULATE AN END TO PRISON RAPE pub.in 57Am.Crim. L. Rev. 1599 by BRENDA V. SMITH 

EXPANDING ACCESS TO MEDICATIONS FOR OPIOD USE DISORDER IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM BEYOND PRISONS AND JAILS pub.in 62 Am. Crim. L. Rev.1213 by JOSEPH K. LONGLEY.

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 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