Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: June 2026

Friday, June 5, 2026

CANCER CAUSING WATER AT VIRGINIA'S SUSSEX I STATE PRISON, ISNT NEW BUT IT ONCE AGAIN FRAMES THE ISSUE THAT THE FIGHT OVER VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME ISN'T JUST ABOUT CONDITIONS By William Thorpe

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Sussex I State Prison or better yet, Virginia's Koncentration Kamp at Sussex I, is built like a bunker to withstand a nuclear blast, but it is sinking, yes the earth beneath it is saying enough of this. From the cracks in its super structure, hinting at that "all the Kings men couldn't put it back together", to the trapped ghost of dead enslaved people, yes Sussex is haunted and what I'm saying isn't hearsay. I speak from first hand experience. Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is its own beast of Koncentration Kamp.[see my September 10, 2018 work on Sussex I, titled: A STORY OF PROFESSIONAL IRRESPONSIBILITY and ETHICAL INDIFFERENCE BY A VIRGINIA SUSSEX I STATE PRISON [SXISP] MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIAL. Then September 9, 2018 titled: VIRGINIA'S SUSSEX I STATE PRISON and THE SERIAL VIOLATOR PRISON GUARD N.IWUAMADI and to really get the point across as to what nature of beast is Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, you can also check out this October 8, 2018 work titled: IN VIRGINIA I LOVE YOU CARDS UNAUTHORIZED TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PRISONERS AT VADOC SUSSEX I STATE PRISON (attn. I had the experience with the cards in 2018 when I was held at Sussex for a couple of months from Red Onion)].The chronicles of dehumanization of the imprisoned Virginian at Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is legion. All one has to do is access the catalog of court cases filed by Sussex I prisoners against the Virginia Prison Official and while you are at it remove the name Sussex I and replace it with Red Onion, or Wallens Ridge, or Pocahontas or River North or Greensville, even Keen Mountain and you'll quickly realize its that same ole, Don McLean's "good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye",song. So the question before us isn't the mere recognition that its the same ole song, be it cancer causing water or the killing of Aubrey McKay by Wallens Ridge Prison Officials or the number of Virginia Prisoners shipped out to other State prison systems or that fundamental unwillingness by the Virginia Prison official to come to terms with the simple fact that conviction of an alleged crime and the subsequent Imprisonment isn't leave for dehumanization, but how mature is our ability to engage the People of Virginia on the terms that Prison and the Justice Infrastructure only exist because of LAW, which is the glue of Virginia Society and the Social Contract, as such it cannot exist selectively. So for example if the Commonwealth of Virginia recognizes, for instance certain causes of death, like hypertension to its Public Servants as job related and surviving family of the deceased worker are accorded the relative job related benefits. Then a Virginian, for example Henry Gorham Jr. (Bobilly) who died last year in Prison at Greensville, was imprisoned healthy and young. He wasn't sentenced to die in prison then due to the nature and circumstance of the imprisonment, he becomes ill and dies. The death is characterized as due to "natural causes" (and here is another rub I'm of the position that no Black Person's death whether in the diaspora or Africa since the 1400's can ever be accepted as of "natural causes", because if ones human condition is subjected to an external non transactional dynamic, then there is nothing self-deterministic or "natural" about whatever semblance of occurring agency is expressed as reaction and response. In other words if we don't recognize harm to fellow human as natural as the impact of an earthquake or hurricane, then the violent imposition on Africa since the 1400's isn't natural).But his death isn't seen as due to imprisonment,

There isn't any novel philosophy in what I'm saying. All I'm stating is the obvious and whether we are honest and willing to confront it, as stance against that inevitability of "when they came for the characterized undesirable, I said nothing, then I was next" is a formulation that is primordial as the synaptic habits determining Homosapiens. What I want to focus on is the real work of holding Virginia's imprisonment scheme accountable, which cancer causing water for imprisoned human beings at Koncentration Kamp Sussex I, is but existence of the fraud perpetrated by those who presume to dictate and determine, the definition of the Virginia organic socio-person. The question isn't about the speech of Virginia's justice infrastructure as in adjudication of socio-person deviance, but its instead the contention that, if we truly presume society structured on a Social Contract, then, the leeway isn't a simple prerogative of the dictatorship of intent and its organized violence mechanism. The fact of Virginia's adjudicative impositions, notwithstanding its assumptions does not contradict that after its all said and done, the only remnant are suppositions as such the relative Constituted aspirations of the Commonwealth cannot exist as crass canards, just because certain minds are haplessly mired in a political-economic construct that belies the fact that, thats all it is, a construct, that palpitates with the expectation of progress, which for you reactionaries, means development and its inexorable work of unifying the People and again for you reactionaries, the perfection of that unity of the people is essentially, the "just and right side of history" resolutions of contradictions and the unflinching identification and illumination of antagonisms garbed in their systemic antithesis. So we begin with, if Virginia legislators are at peace with the logic and, yes it is a honest one that, the human business of existence or its conventional description as, "job related" warrants recognition on its terms and all of this are structured on the existence of the human being or its purported unconditional affirmation. Because everything is about the context of human life, yet that same Virginia legislature can determine that the life of the imprisoned Virginian is less, unequal and subordinate to whatever contextual transitory ignorances are reptilian like emerged basking in the Sun. While ridiculously mocking the affirmative insight of the "job related" declarative by failing to recognize that by repudiating its logic in the imprisonment schematic, the entire human business of existence is undermined. This brings to mind the speech of the 1993 Rwanda Genocide, where its participants and perpetrators, would get themselves together in the morning kiss and tell their wives, that they were going to "work", a mundane 9-5 of slaughtering human beings and return home, have dinner etc. as any regular humdrum family home tableau, after work. The Hutu perpetrators of the "work" psychology of the Rwanda Genocide are, not unique. It is the basic and fundamental nature of our human condition in the absence of that unconditional affirmation of Human life. The antagonism of this reconciliation isn't with the existence of heinous crimes, nor is there dispute with its accounting. Yes, criminality and deviance can be held accountable without dehumanization, without mocking the sacrosanctity of human life with denigration. While there are those among the people working to affirm the equality under law, declarative, meaning sanction isn't dehumanization. There are also those equally at work in its undermine, pursuing the deception that the victim of crime should find solace in the fact the convicted is being given cancer causing water.

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