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