Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: February 2026

Thursday, February 5, 2026

TWO ASPECTS OF VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM By William Thorpe

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First of all, this is the orienting vantage of how we stand in relationship to Virginia Prison Reform: IT ISN'T A BOON OR DISPENSATION. I BEGIN: The Virginia Prison and its imprisonment condition stands as the most speculative and suppositionary practice ever assumed by its Social Contract, consequently it contains all of the Commonwealth's shortcomings, hypocrisies and antagonisms because its work is that of dehumanization, plain and simple which ensuingly corrupts according to relative proximity or it accentuates its inherence. The work of our analysis and its animation of reforming the Virginia prison circumstance as it holds the Virginia prison official accountable along with Virginia's Government accountability-function, is to refute and repudiate its ossified and idealistic narrative regardless of logic. This first aspect of refuting and repudiating its ossified and idealistic narrative regardless of logic, assumes a number of forms, with the primary as that of getting laws passed under the notion that the fundamental dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner is that of jurisprudence and in the general sense due to the activity of Virginia's Social Contract, is. However the relative significance of jurisprudence as a counter point to the impunity of the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner, lies with, the true, pure and quintessential nature of the accountability-function, which simply is the unfettered and truly liberated ability to hold government and its police powers, which the Virginia prison official is a function and operative to account or to compel that recognition of subordination to that "Of, By and For the people", which the Virginia Constitution asserts its authority from, with its declarations, starting with. ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS----A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS MADE BY THE GOOD PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR SOVEREIGN POWERS,WHICH RIGHTS DO PERTAIN TO THEM AND THEIR POSTERITY, AS THE BASIS AND FOUNDATION OF GOVERNMENT [then it continues with] SEC.1 THAT ALL MEN ARE BY NATURE EQUALLY FREE AND INDEPENDENT AND HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT RIGHTS.......[in the spirit of JEAN ROUSSEAU and the theoretical kindred of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1789 and its," MAN IS BORN FREE BUT EVERYWHERE I LOOK HE'S IN CHAINS"]. As such the existence of prison official impunity and its presumptions of above-the-lawism simply reveals the people's impotence and inability regardless of reason to subordinate their government's activities embodied by the Virginia prison official to their will and its accountability-function. This then matter of factly exposes that the character of Virginia's prison reform has a cognitive dissonance with the general and specific or particular order of which is primary and secondary, or which comes first. Meaning should we pursue enactment of laws at the expense of the accountability-function or means of their actual application as intended or anticipated or should we attain a actual means of holding the Virginia prison official accountable. An example of this is Virginia prison reform activism achieved a recent law at Virginia Code 53.1-39. 2, A 4 hour out of cell activity for the Virginia prisoner held in solitary confinement (under the euphemism, Restrictive or Restorative Housing) Va. Code 53.1-39 (1A), then the Virginia prison official at its Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison and its other Charnel Kamps, promptly ignored it and kept on doing what they do, which is violate. Here is the rub, not only has the Virginia prison official, violated the law but they have exploited it as defense in lawsuits by claiming that its existence implies solitary is like General Population.

I have misgivings with recommending this below work as a comprehensive defense of my analysis on the Second aspect of prison reform in Virginia, on the simple fact it was produced at the present day, utterly craven Columbia University of New York. Yes, just as history saluted Columbia's vanguard heroics as being correct during the 1960's, so is its betrayals and complicities of 2025, by its administrative elements, indicted as that same ole same ole fleeing from the field, an infamous illustration of life imitating art, imagery of the seminal lyrics, "PICTURE ME BEING SCARED OF A N***A THAT BREATHES THE SAME AIR AS ME" by NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Nonetheless the work which is by LAURA FEELY, makes the point and case. The title of her work is DEFINING THE PUBLIC:ADMINISTRATIVE RULEMAKING REQUIREMENT IN THE CARCERAL CONTEXCT---54 COLUM. HUMAN RIGHTS L.REV. 368.The fact that our human condition is replete with contradictions and its Social Contract expression shimmers with hypocrisies isn't the exception but the rule and it takes the work of relentless analysis and implacable exposure to assert that yes we see that the "Emperor", no matter how strident the denials by those historical stooge and henchmen functionaries," has no clothes".In others words, the center of our antagonisms isn't holding and it isn't supposed to, which clearly defines that germane dynamic of the accountability-function of prison reform in Virginia. As I pointed out in the early part of this work, Virginia's prison reform work has this cognitive dissonance, of that philosophical, chicken or egg, distraction and the navel gazing contextual distortion of order of action, that only renders the status quo work of prison reform in Virginia as idealistic. I noted Ms. LAURA FEELY'S comprehensive work, "DEFINING THE PUBLIC...", because she tackles what after all is said and done with, is the main, primary and only question of REFORM, period. So how does what Ms. Feely is laboring at speak to prison reform? It is the crux of the issue, independent of context, because if our ancestors stated the obvious which is "Rights" or interactions and relationships are "Inalienable", then impediments, which per virtue of having to state the obvious, implies that there are, impositions and if we are honestly working to attain that accountability-function of realized humanness, then, basis of such impositions are irrelevant and the only relevance, is that of it's consequence. I'll use Columbia University's recent cravenness as example, which is simply this: on what terms can cravenness offer defense?. As such analysis is to, as it is specific to prison reform in Virginia, speak to the dialectic, which is reform and how to hold the prison official accountable, as such, what analysis reveals is not the logic of the prison official's impunity, but the fact that it exist and therefore what is permitting and enabling its existence. This then brings us to the understanding and fact that the impunity itself, is a structural lattice of Virginia's Government and its police powers again, regardless and irrespective of reason or logic, the consequence is impunity and we cannot speak of the just realization of Virginia's Social Contract, when despite that Inalienable sovereignty of its existence, it has the dehumanizing motive as Virginia law, THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS ACT and we encounter it as the professional behavior 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