Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: January 2026

Saturday, January 31, 2026

PROTEST AS SPEECH FOR REFORM OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON CIRCUMSTANCE IS ALSO THIS By William Thorpe

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I will get right into it, The Commonwealth of Virginia is much more than its Three Branches of Government. It is primarily the established institutions The People of Virginia have established as means and mechanisms of what it means to realize themselves and the cultivation of its optimal environment. Government is primarily a coercive force, and no one welcomes coercion into anything and its will of the people is a clear articulated anticipation, "Of By and For The People" despite the fact that, at this moment of our social contract's existence, its primitive nature, circumscribes the anticipation as a practical purpose. Institutions establishing means of satisfying the people's aspirations are first and foremost, Ideas and not just a building and yes reform of Virginia's prison circumstance and its prison official is an idea and its satisfaction requires a maturity of engagement. Meaning the reform idea has to engage Virginians in spaces of ideas used to the habit of exchange. So Virginians conscious of the fact, that the aspired self-realization and the requisite cultivation of its optimal environment, is first and foremost a reform of Virginia's prison circumstance by returning the Virginia prison official to its rightful place of subordination to the will of The People of Virginia under equality of Law, have to meet fellow compatriot Virginians in spaces and places that have customarily speculated on and played around theoretically with self-realization and the cultivation of its optimal environment, but haven't actually appreciated its articulated anticipation, "Of, By and For The People", and pursued its attainment. The obvious places are Religious spaces and Virginia Colleges and Universities. We call on allies, families and friends of the Virginia Prisoner to reach out to religious leaders in their communities, for the purpose of speaking to and getting the point across to congregants, that the imprisonment of a Virginian, which is according to law, isn't then an excuse to violate law by dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner. This same message should be carried to campuses, through invites from college and university groups who for the most part are waiting on such activism. I have described a couple of mobilizing activities that are literal civic duties, because when government and its coercion, which the Virginia prison official is a function are held accountable, by subordination to the will of the people, that aspired, perfection of the unity of The People, is closer to realization. The existence and tolerance of impunity by government is its antithesis and the most destructive occurrence in the Social Contract. Because it corrodes the people's good will, it corrupts the people's trust in potential and capabilities, it as a final exertion negates humanness and replaces it with cynicism. What I'm also showing is protest has infinite character, because its only purpose is to expose and resolve antagonisms within the social contract that dehumanize. So, to the accountability-function of the Peoples Will, give us that breath of fresh air, that you are its operative, change the narrative of the Virginia prison circumstance and hold the Virginia prison official accountable.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

Friday, January 30, 2026

OUR NATIONAL LABOR GROUPS ARE RELATIVELY ABSENT FROM THE WORK OF PRISON REFORM, BUT IT'S GLARING WHEN VIRGINIA'S OWN ARE SILENT TO THE POINT OF ABSCONDING, IN LIGHT OF THE FACT FORMER RANK AND FILE ELEMENTS ARE NOW CLAD IN THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS "UNIFORMS OF BRUTALITY" By William Thorpe

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The organization of our Human Condition as Society on the mechanism of the Social Contract, has as its attention, the business of being human, or its encompassing character, Work. This supremacy appearance of Work begins its assertion also from the Religious Genesis 2:2 "And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done". Then its Human Condition directive begins at Genesis 3:23 "therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken". To its bookend emergence as legend on the entrance to the Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz," Work Shall Set You Free", where its definition was the administration of the extermination of the human being. The killing and extermination of the human being as Work, had of course preceded its Auschwitz practice, but to my knowledge Auschwitz, had the unique temerity to appropriate the aphorism "work shall set you free", as organizer. I've given this illustration of "work" to show it's primary basis, which then enables me to now say this, if "work" is that activity of life, but as it concerns this work, human life, then all organizing aspects and constructs of the human condition, as revealed as society on the dicta of the social contract are all and only about work. As such it has two diametric 1) that which permits its unimpeded motion and (2) and its maintenance. With its maintenance, we encounter the various forms and types of it's governance or a Government. For a quick definition of government, BLACK'S LAW defines as:The structure of principles and rules determining how a state or organization is regulated. 2, The sovereign power in a nation or state. So let's get a basic understanding of what is this, "sovereign power". Again BLACK'S LAW defines it as: Police Power, The inherent and plenary power of a sovereign to make all laws necessary and proper to preserve the public security, order, health, morality and justice. It is a fundamental power essential to government, and it cannot be surrendered by the legislature or irrevocably transferred away from government. I BEGIN: No one argues, not even the conceited addled among us that the only function of Life, more specifically, human life, isn't that of WORK, which I'll define as idea (conclusion, formulation) +intent (urge)= act, action (production, create).Work which is all and only about the business of being human, meaning securing sustenance and supporting circumstances for human life existence is the organizing focus and attention or purpose of our human condition. As such it brings out the best and worst in us. The worst, is what I want to focus on, because that "worst", is what impels and creates the need for reform, because fundamentally, that worst, has as its psychology, an antagonistic existence or a corrupting effect on relationship terms and values of the social contract which then seeps into the common daily interaction of social existence, which means its impact is squarely and directly on "work", which in society is organized as Labor. This work isn't to instruct Labor on course of action, but this work is clarity on the fact that, the essential purpose of the Police Powers and its state organized violence, existing also as the Justice Infrastructure, with prison as administrator, has a purely coercive and punitive function, that of ensuring Labor is subordinated.

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

Thursday, January 29, 2026

JUST AS HISTORY DE-LEGITIMIZES THE SPEECH OF CONSERVATISM AND ITS REACTION BY INDICTING IT'S HYPOCRISY, SO SHOULD WE OPPOSE THE DEHUMANIZATION OF THE VIRGINIA PRISONER BY EXPOSING ITS SYSTEMIC MOTIVE By William Thorpe


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It is a labor in itself to proclaim the sacrosanctity of Human Life, as the Constituted aspirations of the People of Virginia claims then dehumanize it as process of holding it accountable and responsible for asocial behavior and deeds. Our ancestors understood that to find that quintessential immortality in valor and honor, the foe or opposition had to be accorded with the equality and respect of the life force and motive, without qualifications and I emphasize without qualifications. Meaning regardless of the form and configuration of the life force, if it acquitted itself in that recognizable template of value, it received a narrative of worthiness. So not to become long winded about it, all humanity was subsequently accorded that generic worthiness, which contrary to theology and its idealistic hypocritical presumptions and contradictions, became that basis of the sacrosanctity of Life. But as some of our ancestors also recognized, we constantly violated the sacrosanctity of life as a natural course of our condition. A condition which some of our ancestors observed as result and cause of, the business of being human, which fundamentally is distilled as the pursuit of life sustaining and supporting conditions and those optimal necessary circumstances. So what confronts, the Virginian who aspires to the wholesomeness of their existence, is simply this: their existence and its basic claim is dependent on its inexorable externalization. In other words a non-imprisoned Virginian doesn't have to, as I've stated in other works, give a flip about the imprisoned Virginian, but as long the imprisoned Virginian is being dehumanized, its ahumanistic process, as done by the Virginia prison official is also spilling over into and assuming a devaluation of that declared Constituted will of the People of Virginia of the sacrosanctity of life. Dehumanization of human life as formulation of Virginia's historicity, is well documented in Virginia's antecedent laws in defense and application of its political-economy, which was the chattel enslavement of black People. It then spilled over into its imprisonment scheme, in a continued pursuit and maintenance of, its chattel enslavement political-economy which had been abridged by the Civil War, as a mechanism of a justice infrastructure. But just as everything primary to the human condition, it had and still has nothing to do with any idealistic pursuits of repairing any harm borne by social beings, who in most cases were and are not even recognized as having personhood, under a pacification gambit as "justice". The political reforms that ensuingly gave us imprisonment in its current form, despite applying and exploiting the verbiage and language of perfecting the people's will, is instead due to its allegiance to its antecedent of dehumanization, is incapable of separating itself from it, as such must be compelled. This is where the People of Virginia as an organic entity have the obligation, an obligation that cannot be delegated to the compromises of customary gambits.

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

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

WHAT EXACTLY IS PROTEST AS SPEECH IN VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM ADVOCACY By William Thorpe

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Recently an ally in the work of Virginia Prison Reform and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, told me I was anti-protest. So after I permitted myself a bit of a chuckle. I responded with the simple, well, every single moment of my existence these past 46 years and counting of imprisonment under Virginia's jurisdiction has been one continuum of protest, considering the fact that I came to prison with a 13 year sentence and I've now done 46 years and not a single one of these accumulated years hasn't been protest related. So there has to be an extraordinary disconnect with and an outright confusion over, what exactly is protest as speech, then its purpose and utility, because if after, to use the colloquial running time up, to where I've done 46 years on a original 13 year sentence, I can be characterized as being protest averse or anti-protest, then something is drastically and dramatically wrong. Hell I'm currently exiled caged up in Texas from Virginia because of protest. But the fact of the matter is one idealistic characterization doesn't in no way form or manner take away from historical facts which my existence under the jurisdiction of Virginia imprisonment, details and instead what it does is provide that opportunity to present a bit of analysis which will be a bit of a motive force to this historic work of holding the Virginia Prison official and the system that births them accountable. I BEGIN: Of course, PROTEST as a function of American English, is defined, which considering my prison writings are within the parameters of prison official impunity, meaning violations of law, authorizing the professional behavior of the Virginia Prison official, I'll first state the legal definition of PROTEST, according to BLACK'S LAW, Protest: A formal statement or action expressing dissent or disapproval. Now I'll state it's more generic definition from, WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY Fifth Edition, Protest:1.to state positively affirm solemnly assert, 2. to make objection to speak strongly against. And now here is WEBSTER'S American English Thesaurus NEW EDITION 2 cents on it, Protest syn ASSERT, avouch, avow, profess, affirm, aver, declare, predicate, warrant, OBJECT remonstrate, expostulate, kick, oppose, resist, combat, fight, demur. What these definitions show is, protest is primarily and basically, an act, action, with the intent giving it character. So as it matters to the work and question of Virginia Prison reform and its accountability-function, we have to characterize it through purpose and its practicality. Once we do this, then we see and realize that its mindless and idealistic for our free-world allies to do what we as prisoners do, for the simple fact, what we do as protest as prisoners is due to the circumscription of imprisonment, its condition and circumstance when the intent, what is needed is the realization of the accountability-function of prison reform and once we have clarity on this then those minds and hearts in the free world, who are allied with accountability-function and its work of reform will realize the vastness of the protest-tableau, that's available. So we recognize that the Virginia Prison officials' impunity, and to the accountability-function is a systemic symptom of fundamental antagonisms of Virginia's Social Contract, meaning to return the prison official as subordinate to law and the will of the people, all facets of Virginia society must be scrutinized and held to account.

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

Monday, January 26, 2026

THE WORK OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE, HAS A PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CHARACTER By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: The work of holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable as all things political, has and consists of two fronts: which are (1) the primary focus of presenting to the people of Virginia that, the idea and fact of, the rule of law and its due process is a fraudulent enterprise as long as an integral element of its administration, the Virginia prison official, professionally behaves and operates with impunity, or to state it simply, presumes to be above the law. (2) the secondary aspect is to state a clear and unambiguous articulation to the people that our elected leaders who are tasked with the function and privilege of ensuring that fair administration of law, by exacting accountability and oversight over the Virginia prison official as their subordination to the people of Virginia ask, anticipates and expects, do so. Nothing about this is complicated or complex, however it becomes, due to all sorts of myriad convexing and concaving confluences and occurrences, of which some are endemic, while others are machinations. Nonetheless it doesn't excuse nor set aside the imposing reality, that, despite the fact that the impunity of the Virginia prison official, as expressed in the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner, as practiced behind the prefab concrete and concertina razor wire enclosures of Virginia prison's, then spills over, firstly as a "othering" of the environment origin of the Virginia prisoner, meaning "free" Virginians, living, existing and going about their daily lives are seen and interacted with, under the same dehumanizing savagery and barbarism meted to the Virginia prisoner. Then secondly, it fuses into a crassification of Social Contract terms and a interactive callousness which then impedes that perfection of the unity of the people, as that germane aspirational quintessence of our Human Condition. What the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable requires is a complete saturation of analysis among the people, not on any terms less than if conniving minds and exploitive opportunist among the people have inoculated the people against ideas of prison reform with the pernicious retort of, "don't do the crime if you can't do the time ", which in itself is a lawless snide and sneer, analysis to the people must be clear and unambiguous that, doing the time shouldn't then become a crime due to prison official impunity. The People are not clear on the fact that, punishment under Virginia law are either a sentence of imprisonment and its conditions on one's liberty, probation, restitution or a combination. The conditions and circumstances of the imprisonment or confinement is primarily we encounter the impunity and presumptions of the above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official in the displayed savagery and barbarism of professional behavior, as a thinly concealed holdover from the whip and sadistically coercive and punitive measures of Virginia's chattel enslavement of Black People. Chattel enslavement of Black People in Virginia was a comprehensive dehumanization regime. Its migration into segregation or the colloquial jim crow, continued the dehumanization. Virginia's imprisonment scheme continues, the impunity of dehumanization and a Virginian doesn't have to give a flip about the imprisoned but if that Virginian is conscious of the tensions of the existing contradictions and antagonisms of Virginia's Social Contract, (which by the way, its impossible for any Virginian to ignore) which Candidate Abigail Spanberger spoke to so succinctly, then it behooves that it's connected to the impunity 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

Sunday, January 25, 2026

THE ONLY RESPONSE TO GOV. SPANBERGER'S THOUGHTLESS AND UNFORCED ERROR SELECTION OF JOSEPH W. WALTERS, A COG IN THE INCORRIGIBLE VADOC MACHINERY OF IMPUNITY AS DIRECTOR IS NON-CONFIRMATION BY VIRGINIA SENATE By William Thorpe

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Okay we get it Gov. Abigail Spanberger had that classic Democratic Party knee jerk fear of the "being soft on crime" slur, so she selected an apparatchik, a cog in the VADOC (Virginia Department of Corrections) machinery of impunity, as its new Director and this is where and why she and her incoming team are susceptible to the thoughtless and unforced error critique and criticism, because, Gov. Spanberger had ample evidence, from Local, National and even International media that simply picking from the rotted apples of the existing apparatchik of VADOC Directorate would be cataclysmic and indicative of that, political kryptonite, "incompetence". Listed below are media accounts that not only indicts the still existing and constituted VADOC Leadership but exposes Gov. Spanberger's nominee, Joseph W. Walters as accessory, complicit and a co-conspirator in the underpinning dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, who needless I add wasn't imprisoned to be dehumanized.

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*BACK IN SPOTLIGHT VIRGINIA SIX-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE OVER SOLITARY CONFINEMENT by RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
*AFTER SELF-IMMOLATIONS AT RED ONION STATE PRISON, VIRGINIA PRISONERS ALLEGE CRACKDOWN by THE APPEAL *'BRUTAL' CONDITIONS: 3 FORMER RED ONION INMATES' EXPERIENCES AND THE STATES RESPONSE by WRIC *VIRGINIA PRISON USES THREATS,BRIBES TO ADDRESS SELF-HARM by THE APPEAL *DANGEROUSLY UNDERSTAFFED: INMATES DESCRIBE FEAR AND VIOLENCE BEHIND RED ONION'S WALLS by VIRGINIA MERCURY *VIRGINIA'S NEW CORRECTIONS OMBUDSMAN TO PRIORITIZE RED ONION PRISON PROBE by VIRGINIA MERCURY *DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OMBUDSMAN WILL INVESTIGATE RED ONION STATE PRISON by CARDINAL NEWS *CALLS GROW FOR NEW RED ONION STATE PRISON INVESTIGATION by VPN *VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS WANT TO KNOIW WHY 6 INMATES HAVE BURNED THEMSELVES by THE NEW YORK TIMES These are just a cross sample of media exposés, which also include stories and accounts from publications as THE FINAL CALL,THE GUARDIAN, REUTERS NEWS,THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and countless accounts to family and friends by the Virginia Prisoner, including Virginia legislators visits to Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red ONION State Prison. Not to mention the thousands of lawsuits filed by the Virginia Prisoner against the practices and philosophy supported, endorsed, defended and enforced by Gov. Spanberger's pick to head VADOC, which all Spanberger and her team had to do is a simple cursory dive and she would have quickly realized and recognized with her politician instincts that Joseph W. Walters, unlike her pick to head Virginia's Department of Homeland Security, STANLEY MEADOR, was ethically and politically radioactive. This unforced error selection of Joseph W. Walters by Spanberger, coming out of the gate isn't an automatic and irredeemable disqualifier of her incipient and nascent Governorship tenure, hell Ralph Northam survived his "blackface" bigotry and evidenced the capacity for historical redress, so yes Gov. Spanberger has a tableau of potential. Nonetheless, what this moment of her selection for Director of VADOC requires and demands is it's rejection and non-confirmation, by Virginia's Senate. Accordingly we call upon all Virginians cognitive of the perfection of unity among the people to lend their voice and energies in demanding the rejection of Joseph W Walters and his impunity as Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections. The first step and foundation of that perfection of unity of the people, is "equality under law".

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982


Friday, January 23, 2026

THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA ARE NATURALLY DEVASTATED THAT GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS ENABLING THE IMPUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL WITH HER SELECTION FOR DIRECTOR OF VADOC, BUT IT PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR A DEBATE THAT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING By William Thorpe

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Let's be clear Governor Abigail Spanberger picked a cog in the status quo machinery of impunity to head VADOC or The Virginia Department of Corrections, because as a Democrat she is averse to the susceptibility euphemistic critique of "being soft on crime", and that's the whole point, for too long we have allowed, permitted and tolerated the existence of euphemistic narratives, that brazenly wink and nod their intent, while we act like, we don't know what's going on. Governor Spanberger chose a Virginia Prison Official, to become Director of VADOC who, during the period when imprisoned Virginians were self-immolating themselves, setting themselves on fire in protest of prison conditions and treatment, that he supported and defended its creation was collecting Virginia tax payer provided pay checks. Now, The Commonwealth of Virginia has been operating a Prison System for centuries and never have those it imprisoned resorted to self-immolation as speech in protest of conditions, till the watch of the previous Governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin and his henchman, former Director of VADOC, Chadwick Dotson and that's the team and "good ole boys club" Spanberger's pick to succeed Dotson, Joseph W. Walters, came from and labored under ensuring that it's (and by all and any standards) contra and antipathy to Virginia's rehabilitated and reformed Constitution continued, its philosophy and practice of dehumanizing the Virginia Prisoner. The question isn't whether Abigail Spanberger, knew and understood this, of course she did, because who didn't sit up and ponder why prisoners would set themselves on fire, but its why would she compromise the value sets, that for example drove over 70% of young Virginians to vote for her, thus enabling her triumph over the reactionary world view of the Virginia Republican? And its response is how I started this work, because, the Democratic Party has forever yielded and therefore tangoed with susceptibility to that euphemistic "being soft on crime" slur, which we The People are just as much complicit in permitting its formulation and existence as The Democratic Party. "Harm", by human to fellow human has always been an aspect of the human condition, if I'm to piggy back on the Biblical, wherever there are more than three, I'm with you and say wherever there are two people, the dialectic of "harm" is present, the question however is its resolution and its structure has developed along with the organization of the means and mechanisms of realizing the business of being human or that acquisition and its process of the necessities and wants of human existence. If "harm" is a destabilizer and interference of realizing the business of being human, then the means, mechanisms and process of its resolution is intended as its stabilizer, which is what Law or the terms and relations of the Social Contract, or that approximate cooperation, necessary for that business of being human, is enacted to satisfy. In contemporary Virginia Society and its Social Contract, crime exist as its result, meaning Law defines crime and the Virginia Department of Corrections is a mechanism of its process. So what then does the slur, "soft on crime" mean and why are Democrats susceptible to it, when Law exist not as a Democrat or Republican construct but as process of Virginia's democracy? and if Law when enacted exist as expression of collective will, isn't a after the fact summary redefinition then illegal, unlawful, extra-judicial and violative?

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


Thursday, January 22, 2026

THE POLITICAL AND LEADERSHIP RAMIFICATIONS OF GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER'S PICK FOR DIRECTOR OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

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Candidate Abigail Spanberger, if I'm to use the parlance of the World of Virginia's Tennis Icon Arthur Ashe, feted with base on Richmond's Monument Avenue, "aced" the servings of the political issues and questions of her 2025 gubernatorial Campaign to become Governor of The Commonwealth of Virginia. An accomplishment, notwithstanding it's historic nature of her emergence as First Female and Woman Governor of The Commonwealth of Virginia was already at Match Point, considering the fundamental, again to use the tennis parlance, straightforward serving of the issues and questions, which were, the affordability of life and existence in the Commonwealth. In other words the Politics of the moment was a straightforward serving and all she had to do was ace it by speaking to it. This recognition and capacity to articulate it has nothing to do with Leadership and in no way, form or manner does it indicate such. Candidate Spanberger's capacity to articulate or humanize the circumstances of affordability confronting the Virginian, wasn't in itself as I've pointed out indicative of leadership, which its expression would require a willingness to excavate the fact for the people of Virginia, that the issue and question of affordability of life and existence required and requires a more systemic and structural scrutiny and revelatory analysis, and that will require the originality of and ability of leadership, because unraveling the nature of "affordability", requires the courage to confront its orthodoxy and status quo underpinnings. I BEGIN: Just because Candidate Abigail Spanberger gave us the PG-13-articulation of "affordability" doesn't mean its more mature and primordial nature disappeared, because it now stands arrayed in all of its inexorability demanding the husbandry of leadership, which Governor Abigail Spanberger with her selection of Joseph W. Walters as the next Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, is showing she hasn't found and lacks. The PG-13-affordability critique, on whose sails Governor Spanberger glided into history as Virginia's First Female Governor, was an end of a more diabolical phenomenon, that of the destruction of the process and terms of the Social Contract in two aspects, Nationally and State, which Abigail Spanberger clearly recognized because even though she wasn't explicit in stating such, its intimation was a latent backdrop because, what is affordable life and existence if there isn't any fair administration of law, as Social Contract terms, giving process to the necessary transactions of value exchange and its stability. So Ms. Spanberger was well aware that without that respect and subordination to the rule of law and its process, any discussion, debate and critique of affordability was moot, tantamount to that proverbial fiddling while Rome burned. Candidate and now Governor, Abigail Spanberger knew that the primary and only significant and relevant question facing Virginia as well as the Nation was and is IMPUNITY and its DICTATORSHIP. In Virginia its most prevalent and pernicious existence is in the form and professional behavior of the Virginia Prison Official and if Abigail Spanberger as Governor of Virginia is expected to and would be able to confront, that more basic impunity and it's dictatorship careening with its National aspect, how in the hell can she do so when not only is she affirming but endorsing it by selecting a cog in its Virginia machinery for Director of Virginia's Department of Corrections.

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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

YOU KNOW ITS TIME THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA, SAID WAIT A MINUTE WHAT EXACTLY IS THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL DOING AND WHAT DOES ANY OF IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE CONVICTION OF A LAW VIOLATION By William Thorpe

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Recently the push for legislative action on Virginia Prisoner visitation was spoken on a bit in, parts of Virginia's media and the experience of a Virginia citizen from Fredericksburg, visiting a loved one at Virginia's Greensville Prison was shared. First of all the gist of her account was how a Virginia prison official at Greensville summarily determined that the blouse she had on was inappropriate. You know I'm a Virginia prisoner but exiled to the Texas prison system, but under Virginia's Jurisdiction and my primary focus has unconditionally been on the accountability-function of the prison official, because every data point and metric of the imprisonment-condition and its circumstance, is about the prison official's presumptions of irreproachability and its subsequent impunity and I write enough on it and it isn't like the WVTF story on Michelle G.'s visitation experience at Greensville was an epiphany or eureka moment but what it presented was again that without qualification, in stark relief fraudulence and charade of an enterprise, that despite its legitimate human conditional utility and actual historical formulations, has appropriated those historical formulations of "justice" and the pursuit of repairing harm and under its pretext incorrigibly labored to continue a practice, a political-economy construct of the most debased imaginable, that of chattel enslavement, which contrary to the theological narrative of "original sin", is the one and only bane and nemesis of the Human Condition. So what we encounter are those tell tale signature stamp reminders that Virginia's imprisonment circumstance and its prison condition has nothing to do with that speculative application of "justice" and its current verbiage of "public safety", because everything about the imprisonment circumstance indicates that induced schizophrenia of a corrupt and deceitful intent. First of all where do we have evidence that to create and present a functional socio-person, (which Virginia's imprisonment scheme claims anticipation) the process is that of dehumanization? And what the People of Virginia have to realize is the lexicon and vocabulary of the Virginia Prison Official, is functional double speak or euphemistic, intentionally constructed for the purpose and work of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, which is also why the Virginia prison official is eel-like slippery against accountability and I apologize to eels for the metaphor. The point is and I challenge not the incorrigible Virginia prison official but their apologist who do so in the good faith that, imprisonment as expression of the fair administration of Law is a necessary fact of Society, which I agree, that yes a Society has to have a mechanism of administering its laws and even prison abolitionist don't argue or debate this, the issue however is the Frankensteinism of it. Virginia's imprisonment circumstance is a Frankenstein creation struggling to hide and conceal the fact that its ulterior motive is the exploitation of the compromise of the 13th Amendment to The Constitution of The United States, that despite the Civil War that subjected abolishment of slavery onto the slave owning States, it Nationalized slavery, with its ".....except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction".We see this because, if as the Virginia prison official touts a preparation of the prisoner for reentry into Society, why is the imprisonment circumstance asocial?

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

Sunday, January 18, 2026

CONGRATULATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THE VIRGINIA PRISONER FOR THE MATURE RECOGNITION THAT THE ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION OF VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM IS INHERENTLY ABOUT SHARING AND ELEVATING ISSUES AS MAIN STREAM TOPICS By William Thorpe

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That Community and State wide exhalation of accomplishment and relief, by The Families, Friends and collectively the People of Virginia at the fact that Chadwick Dotson, Director of Virginia's Prison System, has finally got his good riddance and Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger can spend some of her good-will with the People and present her grasp of that necessary accountability-function as applied towards the Virginia Prison Official, by setting its tone, with the replacement. For too long we have allowed conniving minds amongst The People to pounce on, seize and subsequently exploit the already fraught issue and circumstance of "harm" caused by criminal violations, as mechanism of their business of securing their realized socio-personhood intentions. Whether and specifically those who would assume political-leadership in the Commonwealth of Virginia actually give "thought" to resolving those natural occurring contradictions and the much basic antagonism of the Commonwealth's Social Contract other than and besides tactical formulations presented by Campaign Managers and Political Consultants has always been a question of the intellectual and emotional tolerance of the people. Or when both the people and their political leaders regardless of reason will not confront the status quo of dysfunction, the emergence of its critical mass then imposes its dialectic regardless of the social contracts narrative-will and capability, demanding resolution, meaning the People, irrespective of tolerance threshold are now compelled to pay attention and embody that simple but encapsulating," of, by and for the people", and its maturtity of recognition that they are not mere part time stake holders or its objective, its subjects, despite the Social Contracts narrative, but are "the" Social Contract or its motive and life force. Which is what the People of The Commonwealth of Virginia spearheaded by and with the efforts and energies of Families and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner recognized and realized with the Electoral Process or November 2025 culminating in the historic emergence and triumph of Abigail Spanberger, that the proverbial "wheels were off the cart", in all aspects of the Commonwealth's Social Contract, meaning Virginia was at its critical mass horizon. Because when imprisoned Virginia citizens are compelled to speak with the desperation of self-immolation, setting themselves on fire, there is nothing Virginia society and the people can do, save to collectively pause, sit up and recognize that, No, this isn't what Virginia is constituted as, nor its aspirations for. Further indication of the dysfunction reaching and attaining critical mass was the fundamentally corrupt nature of the response from the then Executive of the Commonwealth Governor Glenn Youngkin and his Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Chadwick Dotson, both downplaying the enormity and the bizarreness of prisoners of the State of Virginia setting themselves on fire as speech in protest of the savage and barbarous conditions of imprisonment. To say that the response from the Youngkin Administration and Dotson's Directorate were revelatory of moral failings belies the fact that, its dismissiveness and cavalier existence is the "normal" character stance, philosophy and political position towards the Virginia prisoner by Virginia Republicans. Family and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner exposed it.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

Friday, January 16, 2026

WHAT CHADWICK DOTSON'S TENURE AS DIRECTOR OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, BESIDES THE GOOD RIDDANCE, STATES: IS THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA MUST PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL DOES, BECAUSE ITS IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE By William Thorpe

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On 1/13/26 Julia Broberg of WRIC ABC News, confirmed the news, that had already been shared by an alert and attentive Virginian on VIRGINIA PRISONS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE, FACE BOOK PAGE, that the in over his head Chadwick Dotson, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections had finally got his good riddance, in the story titled VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR CHADWICK DOTSON TO LEAVE AS SPANBERGER ADMINISTRATION TAKES OFFICE. Of course to the People of Virginia this isn't only great, but exceptional news and to the Virginia Prisoner, its okay so let's see what tone incoming Governor Abigail Spanberger sets with holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, because the self-serving status quo, shamelessly and incorrigibly evidenced in Dotson's flailing and gasping comments of what ?, his, "I haven't come to bury Caesar" moment or is it another example of his seedy tenure, a Swan song, cannot continue. No one is irreproachable, no one and in particular those given the privilege of authority as the Virginia prison official. I leave much more comprehensive and incisive response to Dotson's in summation of his tenure drivel, to Virginian Family, Friends of the Virginia Prisoner and most importantly victims of the adjudicated acts of the Virginia prisoner, because its a travesty of everything that claims recognition of a victim's experienced harm, when the response then is to in turn break the same law and process that is intended to convey an aspiration of justiciability as the Virginia prison official does in the treatment of the Virginia Prisoner in their professional capacity. What I want to respond a bit to is Julia Broberg of WRIC ABC news and its in this context. Look Ms. Broberg, contrary to the koolAid propaganda that you and your colleagues are accustomed to. The Virginia Prisoner isn't a specific type of human being and socio-person existing to be objectified by the hypocrisies and Steve Urkel-like oops did I do that misadventures of the sadistic presumptions of the Virginia prison official and for too long Virginia's main stream media has taken what is by any standard an unjustifiable stance, that is of disservice to the People of Virginia in the communication of Virginia prison official pronouncements. In your 1/13/26 WRIC-ABC NEWS on the departure of Chadwick Dotson, you did what you're clearly used to which is swallowing hook and sinker stuff that comes out of the Virginia Prison Official mouth, as a matter of fact, the Bible and other religious works are not given the sort of presumptions as Virginia Department of Corrections speech. You repeated Chadwick Dotson's assertions without any qualification that everything he said must be taken with a grain of salt and, yes you'd still have been within your idealistic notions of whatever passes for journalism these days. Simply throwing out an anaemic and quite frankly anorexic statement that an investigation into Red Onion, that prisoners set themselves on fire, then lumping in that a prison guard was killed is in itself the sort of editorializing you and your colleagues have slyly practiced when dismissing a counter status quo narrative, yet claiming you don't editorialize. Chadwick Dotson tenure as Director was rife and full of nothing less than the Virginia prison official pining for pre-Civil War Virginia and all you had to do is interrogate it, instead of giving us quoted Dotson pablum, indicative of the Virginia prison official's mind set of his/her expected professionalism.

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

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

SOMETHING IS OFF WITH OUR PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP HELD WITH OUR POLITICIANS by William Thorpe

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I'm a prisoner under Virginia's jurisdiction as such, my relative perception of the Virginia Politician is primarily under the rubric of the necessary and fundamental issue of prison reform and the Virginia prison officials' accountability-function. I BEGIN : There seems to be a disconnect with the perception, understanding and the anticipated response to or in other words there is this expectation, that in a lot of ways borders on the paternalistic, of the perception and understanding of the relationship held with the Virginia politician as if there is this confusion of the nature and exact terms of the relationship between the People and the Politician they voted for. For example, there is this murmuring that Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger's position on Virginia's criminal justice infrastructure along with the inexorable and inevitable reform isn't clearly known and properly understood. Now publicly this is factual. However, the question and its speculation reveals something that is too damn fundamental to this simple and basic existence of being human, that society as a specific and particular entity has nothing to do with. In other words when an issue is developed and organized with that maturity of its critical mass, it dictates, because it is the will of the people. So the issue is then straight forward, the question of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and reform of its Prison System, isn't dependent on the supposed benevolence or "morality" of a politician, but it is the work, energy and effort of its development as a critical mass value by the people within the demands of Virginia's Social Contract, because the savagery and barbarism of the Virginia prison officials professional behavior claims to have its legitimacy from the presumption that it is the desired intent and will of the People of Virginia. So if governmental activity claims its existence, as being supported by the people and if it is understood that the activity notwithstanding its supposed popular support is at odds and contrary to the constituted aspirations of the Social Contract, which in this case, is the Commonwealth of Virginia and the much needed reform of its decrepit Prison System, then the energies of the People should go towards reminding fellow Virginians, why dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner as prison policy is simply incompatible with Virginia's civilization. Surrendering on this stance and the work of communicating the reminder to fellow Virginian, upon the expectation that elected politicians will instinctively remember their person hood and shake off that crystalized hypocrisy and its antagonisms that defined their electoral success, is quite frankly naiveté. What a Politician presents is relative responsiveness and the level of critical mass that will bring on their cognizance of that proverbial which way are the political winds blowing or in plain speak, to what extent is it politically advantageous or a liability. We cannot simply expect the status quo of which the politician is a foot soldier to recognize that the existence of its impunity as the mechanism of its business of pursuing its self-interest, its survival, as it pays lip service to "equality under law" as a sedative of control (which has nothing to do with "Justice") while concealing that its real existence is already in enmity with the people which is its two-faced nature, as it unmasks its true self, personified in the corrupted labor, but not absolved, of the Virginia 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

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

OUR WRITINGS AND SPEECH ON THE VIRGINIA PRISON SYSTEM AND CONDITION SERVES A COUPLE OF PURPOSES By William Thorpe

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If it was just about a narrative of the savagery and barbarism of the Virginia Prison Official's professional behavior, then besides accounts by the harmed Virginia Prisoner to Family, Friends and formal recounts, chronicled in Virginia law books would sure as hell convey and accomplish it. But writings and speech on the Virginia Prison system and condition by Virginia prisoners serves a more primary and practical function, which is, a connecting insight into the fact that, the Virginia prison system is a fundamental anticipation and paradoxical fact of Virginia society as historically structured by its Social Contract. A illustration of this, one of the allies of the Virginia prisoner was recently participating in a rally, protesting the ICE murder of Ms. Renee Good of Minneapolis and they had the presence of mind to recognize the sameness of the dynamics and issues, one having a National character, the State murder of a Mother of 3 kids with Virginia Prison reform and holding the Virginia Prison official accountable for their professional behavior. What insight from the Virginia prisoner organically presents is that tying up of the loose ends of the ever present contradictions and antagonisms revelatory of the various conniving intersections of terms of Virginia's Social Contract, that despite being experienced as a daily dialectic of life and existence in Virginia society, the people can, understandably be excused for the lack of attention, being ignorant of and not noticing the obvious connections, for one due to the deliberate and purposeful formulations of onerous terms of Virginia's Social Contract, that is specifically imposed to cause that lack of attention and inhibit and distort the necessary clarity of insight, requisite or required for the people to attain and achieve that mature and maximal realization as Social Person. The space then which insight from the Virginia prisoner works to fill, is one that even as the Virginia Prison official dehumanizes the Virginia prisoner as philosophy, the dehumanization spills over or we should reverse phrase it and say, that the spill over is a symbiotic sloshing from society to the prison and from the prison to society, as the dehumanization also begins from and as basis of Virginia society. Not to get caught and twisted up in the "chicken or egg-ness" of it, the fact is dehumanization of the human person, isn't ever conditional, because as soon as human life and its person is reduced to otherness and less than, which is the attitude of the Virginia Prison official and their Virginia Republican political ally towards what is Virginia's justice imposition and its prisoner subject, all human life and person are subsequently dehumanized as fact of the emergence of that above-the-lawism and its impunity. What insight from the Virginia prisoner accomplishes is it provides, equips and enables that correct scrutiny of anything coming out of the mouths of the Virginia Prison official and their allies, be it Religion, Institutional Establishment of Virginia's Social Contract on its terms as nothing more than crass supposititious that only pursue one purpose, which is impeding that maximal and mature realization of the Virginia Social Person, demanding the accountability-function in all aspects and terms of Virginia's Social Contract.

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