SOCIETY IS CONSTRUCTED ON IDEAS PART VI By William Thorpe

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This is Part VI, in the STRUCTURED-ON IDEAS SERIES. As I've been doing in the preceding installments, is presenting to Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner (and as I've always stressed, it also includes the Nations Prisoners), existence of some of the thinking and concepts that influence the Legislator/Policy maker regarding, imprisonment schemes, which by definition encompasses the Social Contract, even though the Status Quo, would rather, the connection isn't made. In other words, the less the People are comprehensively aware that the Social Contract is a construct of all sorts of connections, each seemingly at odds, yet each animated by a specific but collective and unified interest, the less a practical human existence qualifying fact is achieved. So to that ends, even though the business of human existence is being pursed and developed on the productivity of tremendous technology, the organic human driver exists, self-checked or constrained by, despite not being for the most part in cognizable, conspiratorial concert, but the results are the same, (under that critique of voting against ones interests), that same status quo imperative of "maintaining control", by concealing the liberating agency the prescience of the existence of the cogency of disparate and composite parts, introduces as redemption to and for the People. What I want to do with Part VI of the series, is focus on a more basic fact of "Ideas constructing Society or the Social Construct". I have stressed the fact that if "We don't speak for ourselves others will and it won't be for or in our best interest ".The Social Contract or Society and for purposes of this work, Virginia, hasn't matured to the realization that the accountability-function of ideas and it's dictatorship of intent, isn't dependent or conditional, even though that is exactly how we, without presence of mind encounter it in our individual organic existence. What concerns me is holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. So its one thing for us to indict the various culprits of the Status Quo, including the various functionaries of its support system and such indictment is necessary because its logic is what is at odds. But reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme is much more than identifying its hapless culprits, who might appear hierarchical august and are the source of total grief for the average Virginian, but reforming the imprisonment scheme is fundamentally, the insistence that, "accountability", isn't a mere buzzword nor is it owned and monopolized by a specific world view. In other words, accountability isn't only punitive, vengeful, retributive or vindictive. But accountability quintessentially is multifaceted with its one and only master, "scrutiny" and all its synonyms. In so many words I'm echoing our ancients who dared declare, "that even the Sun had to justify its existence ".Such query of accountability isn't a mere primitive formulation of the punitive, but what it reveals is that honest-labor and work of how do we get at responding to contradictions and antagonisms, which as it confronts us, is Virginia's imprisonment scheme. What the Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner have is ability to organize using available resources. For starters a biweekly Zoom brainstorming of 10 People, then expand it, at each meeting, sharpen the message, Print it on a single leaflet and introduce it into the community.

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

ANALYSIS OF SOSTRE AND WHY WILLIAM THORPE REJECTS CONVENTIONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF POST-1400'S SUBJECT-VICTIM

 

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1. Thorpe’s core claim: biography is structurally falsified for post‑1400 subject‑victims

Thorpe states explicitly that biographical details of people born into the post‑1400 world are not “true, correct and authentic” accounts of their human condition. He says they are merely descriptions of how a shackled person adjusts the chains — a metaphor he uses directly in the post .

This is the foundation of his legitimacy:

• If the world‑system itself is a dehumanizing structure,

• and every subject‑victim is born already inside it,

• then any biography that pretends to describe “the person” is actually describing the imposed conditions.

Thorpe is arguing that biography, as normally practiced, is a genre of distortion — it records the effects of domination, not the human.

This is why he refuses to engage in conventional biography.

2. His refusal is not stylistic — it is methodological

Thorpe is not avoiding biography because he dislikes details. He is rejecting biography because it is epistemologically compromised.

He says biographical narratives of post‑1400 subject‑victims are:

• not authentic accounts of human condition

• only narratives of how people handle imposed conditions

• misleading because they treat imposed detours as personal choices

This is a methodological stance: You cannot describe a person accurately if the entire world they inhabit is already distorted by domination.

Thus, refusing biography is an act of intellectual integrity.

3. Thorpe’s legitimacy comes from his civilizational frame

Thorpe’s argument rests on a civilizational timeline: “post‑1400.”

In his framework:

• The 1400s mark the birth of the racialized, Christian‑imperial world order.

• Every human born after that moment is born into a pre‑structured condition of usurpation and circumscription.

• Therefore, biography cannot describe “the person,” only “the detour imposed on the person.”

This is why he says:

“the effects of the post‑1400 cause imposed a detour on his life that he never sought nor seeked”

Thorpe’s legitimacy comes from the consistency of this frame:

• If the world is structurally dehumanizing,

• then biography is structurally misleading.

He is not cherry‑picking. He is applying the same logic to Sostre, Malcolm X, MLK, and himself.

4. He shows how biography hides the real historical engine: resistance

Thorpe argues that the only reason figures like Sostre, Malcolm X, and MLK appear in history at all is because of their opposition and resistance to the post‑1400 world order.

This is crucial:

• Biography focuses on “life events.”

• Thorpe focuses on the confrontation with domination.

He says:

• If not for the imposed detours, these men would have lived entirely different lives.

• Their historical significance is not their biography — it is their resistance.

Thus, biography is not only misleading — it is politically evasive.

It hides the system and foregrounds the individual.

Thorpe flips that.

5. His refusal is also an indictment of the reader’s assumptions

Thorpe anticipates the counterargument: “Detours happen in life; that’s just the human condition.”

He responds:

• Yes, detours happen.

• But you cannot pretend that detours caused by domination are the same as detours caused by chance.

He insists on distinguishing:

• the enslaver’s agency (which must be indicted)

• the enslaved’s resistance (which must be understood)

This distinction is the backbone of his legitimacy.

He is not rejecting biography out of preference — he is rejecting it because it collapses domination and resistance into the same category, which is intellectually dishonest.

6. Thorpe’s position is legitimate because it is consistent across all examples

He applies the same logic to:

• Sostre

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• himself (exiled by Virginia to Texas, writing from solitary confinement)

This consistency is what gives his stance legitimacy.

He is not selectively refusing biography. He is universally refusing biography for all post‑1400 subject‑victims.

That universality is the mark of a coherent theory.

7. The refusal is also a political act: reclaiming Sostre from the status quo

Thorpe says the status quo wants people ignorant of Sostre.

Why?

Because biography reduces Sostre to:

• dates

• places

• personal details

• “life events”

Thorpe insists that Sostre’s real significance is:

• his legal framework

• his demand for accountability

• his exposure of the imprisonment scheme’s depravity

Thus, refusing biography is a way of refusing the state’s preferred narrative.

It is an act of reclamation.

8. The legitimacy of Thorpe’s position comes from the fact that he is writing from inside the system he is analyzing

Thorpe ends the post by stating:

“Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I’m solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit…”

This positionality gives his critique weight:

• He is not theorizing from outside.

• He is writing from inside the machinery of domination.

• His refusal of biography is grounded in lived experience of how the system distorts human life.

This is not abstraction — it is testimony.

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THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY GOING ON IN INDIA, THAT PLAYS ON THAT", EVERY DOG HAS IT'S DAY IN THE SUN", TO EVERY "COCKROACH" HAS DEMOCRACY AND ITS RELEVANCE ON PRISON REFORM IN GOOD OL VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY GOING ON IN INDIA, THAT PLAYS ON THAT", EVERY DOG HAS IT'S DAY IN THE SUN", TO EVERY "COCKROACH" HAS DEMOCRACY AND ITS RELEVANCE ON PRISON REFORM IN GOOD OL VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

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Forever "cockroach", has been used as slur, epithet, insult and also deployed as a psychological weapon in the work of committing genocide. I'm not sure whether it's in use against the Palestinians in the ongoing genocide against them. But it's last prominent use, that I can recall was during the Rwanda Genocide of April 1994, where the Hutu perpetrators, prepared their populations with it for the imminency of genocide on the Tutsi, by firstly desensitizing the would be Hutu actors to the work of killing their neighbors, as was it's granular event, to the dehumanization of the Tutsi, so they would be seen as no more than cockroaches, to be exterminated. I've said this to establish that, "cockroach", has generally served a metaphorical negative contextual purpose and function. So, it truly and really is a "shift", not just self-styled revolution, but a true sapient shift, meaning establishing a social repurposing of context. When an abjectly negative metaphor, that has historically provided an immoral permission, to pursue systematic, methodical and administrative slaughter of fellow human, for the specific purpose of extermination, can be claimed, descriptively embraced, by those it was deployed against under its pre-repurposing, metaphorical negative contextual function, as it has by those hundreds of thousands maybe millions of India's Young People, its youth, Students ala those Black South African Young People, its youth and also Students, who in 1976 took to the streets enmasse, protesting another educational directive, which quickly transformed into Speech against their then White Nationalist Apartheid Government. Just as India's Young People currently in its streets are also protesting an educational action, by the Minister of Education, but has also quickly transformed into Speech against their Nationalist India Government. This phenomenal and earth shaking shift occurred after a Judge on India's Court referred to students who were initially airing out their suffered harm by the action of the Minister of Education, as "cockroaches", under the pre-shift formulation and its entire World view of desensitizing, then dehumanization, which under the pre-shift, the deployment of cockroach as dismissiveness by the status quo would have been it. For one the Indian mainstream media behaves just as the media does here, in America and for purpose of this work, Virginia's corporate media. It's default is status quo critique, so naturally it amplifies whatever the stated narrative of the status quo, it might rehab some of the verbiage, but the sentiment and intent of the critique will remain. Well that isn't what happened this time, India's status quo ,its establishment deployed what once upon a time worked and those smart and ingenious Young Indians went Judo on 'em, they flipped the dismissal, the slur, the epithet, the insult, repurposed it repackaged it, into an organizing motive force, into calling their protest movement, THE COCKROACH PARTY, which has now matured into a materially opposing Speech against not just the Minister of Education but the very Government of India. Here is where I see relevance with our Prison Reform work and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable or making real the Accountability-Function of Virginia's governance, which Governor Abigail Spanberger by certain minuscule moves indicates solidarity. The Virginia Prisoner is currently defined by the world view of status quo dismissal and dehumanization. We need to "shift 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

THE SAVAGERY AND BARBARISM OF AMERICAN IMPRISONMENT HAS PRODUCED GIANTS IN OPPOSITION AND RESISTANCE: HAVE YOU HEARD OF ONE, MARTIN RAMIREZ SOSTRE ? By William Thorpe

Martin Sostre

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Martin Sostre was born on March 20,1923 and he died on August 12, 2015, at the age of 92 after a life existence experiencing, the various circumstances and conditions of American Imprisonment, practiced by the New York Department of Corrections. His Pops was Black and Moms Puerto Rican. As you're noticing I'm not getting all into his so-called Biographical details, because generally I don't see the relevance of a specific biography of Human Beings, born into the victimization, usurpation and circumscription of the specific, Post 1400's, because such details are not true, correct and an authentic account of ones Human condition, but simply the narrative of how we all handle, deal with, oppose and resist the brought into existence conditions of, post 1400. [but if you seek the typical and conventional biography, there is a documentary on Martin Sostre, FRAME UP! THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE, that you check out]. What I'm saying is this imagine someone in handcuffs and shackles and your account of their existence can only be about movement due to the chains?.So how many different ways can you say, they adjusted a wrist or an ankle in response to the chafe of the metal?. Or how about this, let's take the guy who is the focus of this work, Martin Ramirez Sostre. He is accounted for in history because of his opposition and resistance to the materialization of post 1400's conditions and circumstances. In other words the effects of the post 1400 cause, imposed a detour on his Life that he never seeked nor sought, but was born into. Another example, let's take a couple of personalities we all know. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both Black men, who are accounted for in history because of their oppositionary and resistance work against the effects of the post1400 Cause. Can you the reader imagine any number of endeavors all of these men, who are accounted for in history because of their confronting, impositions that they had no role in creating would have instead focused on, were they not detoured by circumstances and conditions which they had no role in creating yet now had to expend their humanness confronting?.So unless the determinative logic is that every subject-victim of the post 1400's effects, according to Biblical dicta came into existence to expend their life force in opposition and resistance, then there cannot be any authentic appreciation and attention to so-called Biographical details of a subject-victim of post 1400.Now as a quick aside for those readers whose reasoning are brimming with the counter, that existential detours occur in life and are to be understood and accepted as part of the dynamic of the Human Condition, you are correct, that doesn't however mean, that when assessing Biographical details we should act like and be blind to the reality that there are two aspects, which are the enslaver owns agency (in itself) and is indicted on such, while the enslaved owns resistance (for itself) and is understood within its defining parameters. With this said let me get into why we should know who MARTIN RAMIREZ SOSTRE was. Sostre comes to us as a Prisoner being subjected to the dehumanizing depravity of the State of New York's Imprisonment scheme, at a period that isn't unlike this contemporary period, which analytically, every single moment, post 1400, has for its subject-victim, whether or not the circumstance and condition is imprisonment, the operative of dehumanization and depravity. What Sostre gave us is that legal frame work, demanding accountability and transparency of the Imprisonment scheme. So as much as the status quo want us ignorant, we reclaim him.

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

JUST AS A MEDICAL DOCTOR EXIST TO HEAL, VIRGINIA'S PAROLE PROCESS EXIST TO RELEASE THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN By William Thorpe

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In a recent work critiquing the fraudulent thought of the anti-parole proponent, I excerpted Pastor Harvey Yoder's assertions in his Newsletter, HARDTIME VIRGINIA SUMMER 2026 Vol. II No.2, expressing the prevailing concerns held by Virginia Prison Reformers that Governor Abigail Spanberger's, newly constituted Parole Board isn't, to quote Pastor Yoder, being "generous" in providing parole to the imprisoned Virginian. My position on Pastor Harvey Yoder and his advocacy for the Virginia Prisoner, is clear, I respect his intentions and efforts for us. However my ability to critique Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is naturally blunt, than that of our allies who are on the free side of the razored concertina fences of Virginia's Koncentration Kamps, because as Prisoner, I'm its material value. So where the non-imprisoned expectedly encounter the Organized-Violence infrastructure of the imprisonment scheme within the contextual-civil reasonableness of interactions in the free World, within the Prison context the dynamic, is simply at odds. For example, Pastor Yoder expressed his and others expectations and anticipations that the new Parole Board would be, "generous in offering release to deserving men and women in prison". Well it isn't that a Prisoner isn't ever ready for release, but when the character of "parole" has been completely disconnected and perverted from its purpose by the politics of scapegoatism, whether as a calculated and deliberate gambit or as a natural understandable human stirring of vindictiveness. Parole isn't perceived as a "generous" dispensation, which would require a farcical mental framing between the Prisoner and the affirmative letter of its grant. Which is the fundamental dishonesty at the heart of the parole narrative as it currently exist. Which for example causes travesties as the unanimous approval of Virginia's newly minted Parole Bill HB 1030 sponsored by Republican Wilt and is now Virginia law Codified at Va. Code 53.1-151.1, to emerge in bright Sun Light. We see the dishonesty and its farcical application, when the new Parole Board uses its existence as excuse and apology for not granting Parole, on the spurious assertion that its full implementation is required, when come on People the Law itself clearly and unequivocally states that, "nothing [in the law] shall prohibit the Board from making its final determination on whether or not to grant discretionary parole.....", meaning besides it's ex post facto harmful effects, the Parole Board can reject its pronouncements as not even worthy of the spectacle of its legislature unanimity. But none of this is the point, which is: Prison Reform means and requires a defiant interrogation and scrutiny of what is reform? Because if we accept Reform as a boon, a dispensation from what? when everything about Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme reeks with the stench of its chattel enslavement utility as genesis. Because what currently exist is a systematic corruption, that still is yet to redeem itself from its inability to confront itself. Pastor Yoder gives us insight when he says, "My understanding after talking with others with the same concerns is that the Board is getting themselves set up with a process for making the best possible decisions while receiving a lot of new information to train themselves as NONE OF THEM HAVE EVER DONE THIS BEFORE". [all caps my emphasis]. This acceptance by Pastor Yoder makes my point, that due to the betrayal of the original purpose and character of Parole, we can forget that Jurys that convict and impose all sorts of sentences HAVE ALSO NEVER DONE SUCH BEFORE.

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 ANTI-PAROLE THOUGHT AND ITS PROPONENTS ARE THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY FRAUDULENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

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Parole as some intellectually honest Judges have noted is part of the sanction of the imprisonment and its scheme. This fact is borne out, evidenced by the legal fights during the adjudication process over disclosure of whether or not the convicted will be eligible for Parole, Pardons, Clemency or Commutation. Now the history of Parole along with Pardons e.t.c appearing as aspect of terms of a Social Contract, for example the Commonwealth of Virginias', is as all other values, processes and applications of a Social Contract, based on: to what extent does it further by stabilizing, the progressive development of the business of human existence. In other words if human existence is a realization of economy, then all the cogs and wheels detailing and defining it, must be understood within its context, especially that of the Justice Infrastructure. What I'm saying is clearly understood and observed in the fact that as soon as a Political-Economy becomes unsustainable, which is easily seen in the emergence of fundamental social dysfunction, the next thing we see is a robust practice of suppression and repression by State Organized-Violence, and its exploitation of "scapegoatism", as Political tactic. The Commonwealth of Virginia isn't any different. In the 1990's Virginia Republicans who at that time held the reins of Virginia's Government, when confronted with social dysfunction reacted with, as one of many responses, the abolishment of parole for Virginians convicted and imprisoned post 1995.In other words the frazzled and at their wits end of the affordability crisis Virginia Wife and Mother, was supposed to find solace, in the fact, that the exploding interest rates on their various credit obligations was assuaged and mitigated by the abolishment of Parole. When regardless of to what extent she might have welcomed the fact that Virginia prisoners were subjected to that proverbial "tightening of the screws", she still retained that presence of mind to know that the typical and average Virginia prisoner had nothing to do with any of the degrading quality of her life and its crisis. So what then were the political gains of the scapegoat politics of abolishing parole along with the entire narrative surrounding it?. The political gains were simple, it furthered that one and only goal of a status quo, that of "Control". Under the gambit rubric by introducing distortions and fraudulent thinking among the People, to the extent that it would enfeeble any honest debate surrounding, not just the Parole question, but the expected and anticipated comprehensive critique of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which we have seen. Parole as aspect of a imprisonment scheme, has only one function, and that is to be granted. Parole, doesn't exist as a ad hoc means or mechanism of extending imprisonment. Imprisonment can be said to perform as definitions of "Motion", by our ancients, the imprisonment will exist to its determination unless acted upon by any number of forces, which Parole, is one. So by definition Parole exist to be granted, given or provided. This existence of Parole begins to be conditioned, qualified or "corrupted", by factors and suppositions that are at odds with its dictatorship of intent, which again is to provide release from imprisonment. Now let me say this, there isn't a singular mind and emotion that recognizes every single human condition and is subsequently able to respond in a comprehensive accord. In other words, no one has all of the answers. The business of human existence, experienced as the human condition, is that of encountering, learning, cognition and approximate resolution.

What the remaining process of Parole in Virginia teaches is the mechanics of it's usurpation and subornation, by undemocratic and illiberal reactionary forces in Virginia. Another lesson the anti-Parole stance allows is, even though we, on the side of Virginia Prison reform, are aware that deceptiveness is the motive force of it's thought, it allows and permits the Virginia People to begin to see for themselves the depths of its intellectual fraudulence and corrupt character. Because the fundamental purpose of Parole, Pardons e.t.c within a Justice system, is uncomplicatedly clear to the most apathetic socio-person, that not only does it present and preserve that ability for a Society, as Virginia to claim being Civilized. But it is a practical nod and recognition to the fact the "Justice" process and its adjudication outcome is dependent on any number of existing factors, which the availability, would and could have produced a completely different result. So Parole along with the other processes of Pardons, Commutations and Clemencies, exist to state that a Society isn't hubristic that it isn't capable of being intellectually honest to recognize the validity of the critique that the socio-person, doesn't experience the adjudicative Due-Process of Law, equally with the necessary resources to comprehensively access it and command its equitable attention and professionalism. It is commonly stated that there isn't a single aspect of Society or a Social Contract that isn't a critique-portal of its whole and the Speech of the anti-Parole folks in the Commonwealth of Virginia, again proves it. Because when Virginia Republicans under the titular leadership of Governor George Allen of the Macaca racist slur infamy, with the collaboration of Virginia's Corporate Media and the complicity of silence from Virginia's status quo or legacy Institutions, abolished Parole in 1995 they knew what they were doing. But as insidious as the abolishment was, it complied with Virginia's Legislative Process. Where the intellectual fraud of the anti-Parole proponent since, stands naked, is in the intellectual distortion they resort to in attacking the remaining Parole process available for eligible Virginia Prisoners. Which is this: they disingenuously and pathetically indulge in the insults of redefining, words, they present unscrupulous framing of the dictatorship of intent, which simply is Parole exist to release the Prisoner from imprisonment. So, when we see the imposition of an idealistic scheme as the work of a parole board, what we instantly recognize is, this process is extra-judicial and ad hoc. Because even though Virginia's Parole Board is a creation of legislative action, its process is ambiguously arbitrary and "legally" capricious. At this point in this work, I want to excerpt the assertions of a Virginian who is dedicated to reforming Virginia's prisons and holding the Virginia prison official accountable. [Pastor Harvey Yoder a Mennonite and Co-Founder of the VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION, whose advocacy work for the Virginia Prisoner, I highly respect].Recently wrote in his newsletter HARDTIME VIRGINIA SUMMER 2026 Vol. II No.2, under the Header WHAT'S UP WITH THE NEW PAROLE BOARD? and I excerpt "Most of us were hopeful that the newly appointed Parole Board sworn in in March would be more generous in offering release to deserving men and women in prison. [He continues] "While this may seem puzzling, my understanding after talking with others with the same concerns is that the Board is getting themselves set up with a process for making the best possible decision while receiving a lot of new information to train themselves, as none of them have ever done this before".He makes my point.

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

WE CANNOT EQUIVOCATE IN OUR SPEECH AND POSITION ON REFORM OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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Equivocation on the position of reform of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme, also includes this. The argument advanced by some that certain critiques of the Virginia Politician ally of the Virginia Prison Official, is harsh and therefore counterproductive. This specific argument isn't limited to the work of Prison Reform in Virginia but is historically typical of any type of reform Speech, meaning activity, of any System. So, the fact that it appears within the context of Virginia Prison Reform only attest to the potency of the ongoing Speech or activity of holding the Virginia Prison Official Accountable. However, there is another aspect of equivocation, not that it is intentional, but the results or consequences are the same nonetheless and it is also to a degree another bane of reform, irrespective of context. I want to focus a bit on this aspect, because it undermines and enables division of unity among the People. Again this disunity isn't intentional, still the result and consequence are disastrous. I BEGIN: The Virginia Prisoner exist as a created entity of Virginia Law, not as classes but as class. Whatever classification and category appears as designation, isn't for the purpose of treatment but control. What I mean is the Virginia Prisoner is created as objective of a controlling intent. Let me say this, the mechanism of the transformation of the Virginia Socio-person into the Virginia Prisoner, is "control", besides the fact that activity ensured the intensification of control as in imprisonment, the existence of the dictatorship of intent, as dynamic of Virginia's Social Contract is the driver. What this means is the intention of controlling, perceives the transformed previous socio-person into Prisoner, as having been forever "Identified". So whether the descriptive "violent or nonviolent" is ascribed contextually to a Virginia Prisoner, it has nothing to do and isn't an operative of the one and only qualifier of subject within the human condition and its business of human existence, which is, what is the manner and level of contribution towards the progressive Development of the business of human existence. I am using the descriptive, violent and nonviolent, because it is the most casual means of disunity among the People. I'm using "People", not as a category of Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner, but all of the People including reactionaries and the basic garden variety misanthrope, because the reactionary and misanthrope exist not as a function of objective "thought", but its lack. Because what logic of defense of being in opposition to the social positive work of ensuring subordination of the Virginia Prison official as function of Virginia governance, to the Accountability-Function Supremacy of the People, can be asserted as, in pursuit of and towards the progressive Development of the business of human existence? Other than to simply exist within that idealistic realm of fraudulent thought. Yet we encounter numbers of us pushing for reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, saying, the nonviolent prisoner should be rehabilitated at the expense of the "violent" and regardless of the intent of the argument being presented, what happens is the controlling dictatorship of intent simply welcomes the disunity and exploits it, not in the affirmation of the accountability-function, but as a co-opting gambit. So what we have to come to terms with, within the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia Prison official accountable, is formulation and application of recognition and treatment of the Virginia Prisoner, must firstly acknowledge the 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

LETS START WITH THIS By William Thorpe

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So, on the issue and question of Reform of Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme, despite the answer being Accountability and Transparency, the work is how do we achieve it. There are a lot of hearts and minds in Virginia along with other voices around the Nation and in some cases Internationally, directing energy and effort towards its realization. So recently during the announcement by Governor Abigail Spanberger of her newly formed, Community Council on Corrections, she framed the existence of the Virginia Prisoner, as "LIVING", in Virginia prisons. Now "living", under the Imprisonment context has moral obligations of the Commonwealth on a couple of aspects, (1) recognition and (2) treatment. So Governor Abigail Spanberger cannot recognize that the Virginia prisoner is living in a Virginia prison cell and then turn a blind eye to treatment by the Virginia prison official. Now this recognition is a step. But what I want to focus on is this: The reason the Virginia prisoner's current condition is existence, notwithstanding Governor Spanberger's declaration of "living", is because of the regime of dehumanization historically meted and practiced by the Virginia prison official as professional philosophy on the highly prized operative of "lack of transparency", of the condition of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme. Towards this lack of transparency, which in itself is as much an objective as the professional behavior and philosophy of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, the Virginia Prison Official enjoys the cover, support, defense and protection of reactionary Political allies and the Editorializing of Virginia's Corporate Media, who simply exploit instead of ameliorating and resolving. Despite their reactionary work, they don't have a monopoly on the formulation of the narrative of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme, that demands reform. Such ownership of narrative is on the side of Reform, meaning bringing transparency and accountability to the habits and culture of the Virginia prison official. So considering that the majority of the offensive and violative professional behavior of the Virginia prison official occurs in the abject conditions of Solitary Confinement. We say to Governor Spanberger's Council on Corrections, for starters, establish the availability of means (we leave it up to your getting input from Virginia prisoners) for all Prisoners held in longterm Solitary Confinement at all of the major Solitary Confinement housing, to weekly state that they received, the basics of outside exercise, showers, meals (provided according to Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedure and The Food Service Manual).Secondly, the Council should require explanations of every single aspect of the management and Operation of Virginia's Solitary Confinement regime and any other Imprisonment condition, regardless of label that is categorically, Solitary Confinement, along with opportunity to propose actual revision. If we are serious about Prison Reform, holding the Prison Official Accountable along with Transparency of the Professional behavior, then, the People of Virginia, as Supreme Power and authority cannot, continue accepting and maintaining that convention of idealistic pro forma oversight by allies 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

Lying about recidivism didn't start with Spanberger it is part of the foundation of VADOC

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 SUMMARY OF THE POST

Title: Is The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) Counting Dead and Terminally Ill Released Prisoners In Its Claims of Low Recidivism? Author: William Thorpe

1. Context: Virginia Abolished Parole in 1995

Thorpe begins by explaining that parole was abolished in 1995 , leaving only two groups eligible for release:

• People imprisoned before 1995 (geriatric or legacy parole)

• People imprisoned after 1995 with sentences short enough to finish within 27 years

2. Why VADOC’s “Low Recidivism” Claim Is Misleading

Thorpe argues that VADOC’s recidivism numbers are structurally distorted because:

• Post‑1995 prisoners serve extremely long sentences, so very few have been released and had the chance to “recidivate” at all. This makes the pool too small to measure meaningfully.

• Harold Clarke has acknowledged that prisoners are staying longer, which further shrinks the recidivism pool.

Thus, the only group large enough to measure recidivism is pre‑1995 prisoners — but that group is now elderly, infirm, or dead.

3. The Core Accusation: VADOC Is Counting the Dead

Thorpe states plainly that:

• Many pre‑1995 prisoners released on geriatric or legacy parole die within two years of release.

• Dead prisoners, terminally ill prisoners, and severely disabled prisoners cannot return to prison, so including them in recidivism calculations artificially lowers the rate.

• Therefore, VADOC’s “low recidivism” claim is deceptive, insidious, and distorted.

4. Author’s Closing

Thorpe signs off from solitary confinement in Texas, noting Virginia exiled him there.

 ANALYSIS — WHAT THIS POST IS REALLY DOING

A. Thorpe is exposing a statistical trick

The post argues that VADOC’s recidivism numbers are not just misleading — they are structurally impossible to interpret honestly because:

• The post‑1995 population is still incarcerated.

• The pre‑1995 population is dying.

This means VADOC is effectively saying: “Look how few people return to prison — because they’re dead.”

This is the heart of the indictment.

B. It’s a critique of political culture, not just math

Thorpe frames recidivism manipulation as part of Virginia’s political culture of concealment, where institutions protect themselves by:

• Using numbers that sound good but hide structural harm

• Presenting “success” metrics that rely on the deaths of elderly prisoners

• Avoiding transparency about who is actually counted

This aligns with VAPAC’s broader theme: Virginia’s institutions normalize deception to maintain legitimacy.

C. It challenges Governor Spanberger’s public claims

Although written in 2022, the argument directly undermines the Governor’s current narrative that recidivism is “at the lowest.” Thorpe’s logic shows that such claims are:

• Not evidence of successful rehabilitation

• Not evidence of safer prisons

• Not evidence of humane policy

They are evidence of statistical manipulation enabled by the abolition of parole.

D. It reframes the moral question

Thorpe’s deeper point: If the state’s “success” depends on counting dead people as “non‑recidivists,” then the metric itself is morally bankrupt.

VADOC’s recidivism numbers are not low because people are thriving after release — they’re low because Virginia abolished parole and the people who qualify for release are elderly, terminally ill, or dying. Counting the dead as “success stories” is not reform. It’s statistical fraud.

By vapac

 

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARE ABOUT PRISONERS AND VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME. BUT IF YOU HAVE EXPECTATIONS OF A "PROCESS", WHICH IS, RULE OF LAW, THEN YOU SHOULD CARE THAT THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL VIOLATES IT MATTER OF FACTLY, SHAMELESSLY By William Thorpe

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In April 2025 I shed light on an incident, which a part of the title was, THE EGREGIOUS CASE OF BURKE v. STANLEY YOUNG 2024 VA. App. LEXIS 550. A Virginia State case, presented by Mr. Conrad Burke, then a Prisoner held at Virginia's Pocahontas State Correctional Center. Look People these examples of incidents would be meaningless, if the State of Virginia wasn't accusing, charging, convicting and imprisoning People for violating Laws, which the State then turns right around and violates those same Laws, in worst ways during its scheme of the imprisonment and imprisoning People. Then to compound it or clothe it in aggravating circumstances. We The People, (including Prisoners, especially Prisoners) in whose name every single construct and term of Virginia's Social Contract, is contextually formulated on are hectored at and lectured to, explicitly and implicitly by every last one of Virginia's Social Contractual Institutions, who exist in abject betrayal of advancing that one and only function, that of developing the business of human existence, by compromising it on a smorgasbord of cravenness. From elected Politicians as Legislators, to embody Virginia governance, to its Religious, Academia, Labor-Business antagonism, through its Media, Arts and Entertainment Speech, with the inanity of "don't do the crime, if you can't do the time" as response to the basic and fundamental ask of holding the Virginia Prison Official Accountable for crimes done as "professional" behavior. Before I continue, I have to point this out, the Commonwealth of Virginia for better or worse, lays claim, to a specific political speech, which is constituted as a Commonwealth or Popular Sovereignty, meaning the People are the Supreme Power. When we say "the People", this isn't the sort of politics where the very next question is who and what are the People as in the subset this or subset that sophistry, of the reactionary Antonin Scalia, presenting itself as materialist jurisprudence, when we clearly see it's Crow feet of supremacist presumptions with its decaying hang nails and bunions. The People, despite and besides, that due to systemic ignorance's isn't grasped as such, is there full of the energy of limitless potential, which we perceive not in its legatee affirmative but in every single last gimmick and gambit unleashed by the Organized-Violence of reaction towards its subjugation and suppression. So we encounter it as the above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official, when under law is what permits and allows the prison official's presumptions, that professional existence is carte blanche to violate. Its under the declared Constituted aspirations of the Commonwealth and its process that we experience the depths of its violation in its scapegoating of the Virginia Prisoner, where we see it again as antagonism of, if soil or the Earth was "blessed" to have been shaped, formed, manipulated and breathed into to "be" Man, yet it is subsequently cursed and without cause, because of a series of events, which if we are to accept the narrative, absolutely and unconditionally was preordained and foreseen. As in the Virginia Prisoner is defacto a creation of Virginia law, as such the most lawful of Virginia's Speech, yet it's also with the Prisoner we experience Virginia's Speech violative of its own law at its comprehensive worst. Which this example, clearly shows, HOLLEY v. COMBS 134 F 4th 142.

Holley v. Combs, isn't an outlier. As a matter of fact we won't even have a Holley v. Combs at 134 F4th 142, if three Judges of the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, specifically, Judges GREGORY, WYNN and HEYTENS, hadn't applied the correct and appropriate jurisprudence, which Judge WYNN wrote the Opinion and stated, "These allegations [by Holley] paint a picture of deliberate retaliation against Holley for complaining about his conditions of confinement. Further, according to Holley, these punishments were not isolated occurrences. He alleges a pattern of retaliatory treatment against Prisoners deemed to be disruptive. Holley cites news reports that include claims that officers assaulted Prisoners...". Judge Wynn also cites, [Kevin Rashid] JOHNSON v. WARNER 200 F. App'x 270, 271 (4th Cir 2006) (Per curiam) (vacating denial of in Forma pauperis status where a prisoner alleged " a number of assaults by prison guards". I BEGIN: What Mr. Garfield William Holley, exposes and unequivocally challenges with his Holley v. Combs case against the depravity of Koncentration Kamp Wallens Ridge State Prison Officials, is, for example: this continuum of window dressing performative prison reform Speech, again presented in the notion by Governor Abigail Spanberger, that a simple advisory and suggestive entity as her recently created GOVERNOR'S COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL ON CORRECTIONS, can even dare speak to on its face, without any comprehensive scrutiny and interrogation of the Virginia prison official's mindset, the very operational philosophy of Virginia's Department of Corrections that can only come from the bully pulpit of a Virginia Governor, as actual Accountability-Function of governance. Mr. Holley's case not only indicts the petty-tyranny of the savagery and barbarism of the Virginia prison official, in his case at Koncentration Kamp Wallens Ridges. But it ensuingly exposes, the entire incident as a cultural habit, which I have been consistently and laboriously critiquing its systemic existence. Because, in order for Mr. Holley to proceed in any Court, whether Federal or State, he had to have went through the administrative process of satisfying the Federal and State of Virginia Grievance procedure, which is no small feat. After surmounting that hurdle and let's not lose sight of the horrendous acts he said that Wallens Ridge prison official subjected him to, which no one in the entire Virginia Department of Corrections saw fit according to their sworn oath to uphold Law, that these claims by a Prisoner must be investigated. Then, when Mr. Holley made it to U.S. Federal Courts, those initial Judges, again dismissed his claims on the typical moves by the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, who defends Virginia prison officials accused of crimes, malfeasances and wrong doing, in the name of the People of Virginia who rarely are told by Virginia corporate media that their tax money is being spent defending Virginia prison officials who are accused of behaving as Mr. Holley claimed. Let's focus a bit on Virginia's corporate or mainstream media and the way it handles what it means to inform, educate and give insight to the Virginia socio-person for the purpose of determining whether its elected leaders are behaving appropriately according to the privilege, responsibility and obligation the electoral activity has accorded them. In one word Virginia mainstream media editorializes its function, when the issues receiving the coverage are of a specific formulation typifying a demographic existing under a particular sort of dynamic within Virginia's Social Contract. Issues of Virginia's Imprisonment scheme are the low hanging fruit of coverage. Which case as Mr. Holley's, attest to.

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

IF GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER TRULY THINKS THAT THE NEEDED REFORM OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME IS HER NEWLY CREATED COUNCIL ON CORRECTIONS, THEN SHE SHOULD PUSH TO MAKE IT AN ELECTED STRUCTURE By William Thorpe

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Once again, I'll say it, the issue of Reform of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Prison System, is simple, its ACCOUNTABILITY and TRANSPARENCY. Which are the Keystones of all that is the Social Contract and Society. The more we get away from this simple fact, with the various nuances, clarifications, qualifications, conditions with all as filters, the more the inherent and intrinsic corruption of all materializations become objective unto itself, necessitating another gloss of the veneer of, nuances, clarifications, qualifications, conditions all as filters. Accountability, is a simple fidelity to the dictatorship of intention. What I mean is this, the one and only approximate truth of the Human Condition, is the business of human existence. From breathing air, drinking water, the intake of sources of energy, responding to the environment according to what is necessary and required and mastering the environment based on the ability of interrogation, in order to be optimally equipped to perform that instinct of survival. Nothing I have just stated is insight, nor am I being facetious, with its rudimentary simplicity or even snarky. All I'm doing is reminding us, that the "business" of existence, is the basis of it all with Accountability riding shotgun and whether we are able to perform this "business" to the best of our abilities depends on our approximate grasp and understanding of Accountability, where the operative and factor of Transparency, is also a formulary of Accountability or the Accountability-Function. Which brings us to the Commonwealth of Virginia, its Justice Infrastructure and Imprisonment Scheme, which no one will dare dispute that, that inherent and intrinsic corruption of all materializations viz Systems has from inception been its objective. Even post the Civil War, which we can characterize as presenting a clean slate or canvas, for a more redemptive, constructive and practical development of the business of human existence upon irrefutable facts of a being structured Social Contract, Virginia's Status Quo embodied by the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1871, couldn't restrain that inherent corruption, with this declaration in the case, RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA.790 and I paraphrase, that the imprisoned Virginian is nothing more than a slave of the State, with nothing more than what the law out of its kindness accords him. Note that this logic was issued in 1871, on the heels and wake of the perdition also brought into existence by the word and construct "Slave", encapsulated in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. In other words the embodied corruption of Virginia's Social Contract pre Civil War, was so crystalized and incorrigibly ingrained in the minds and hearts of those Virginia Jurist, that they just couldn't let go of the malevolence presented by the word and construct "slave", that despite the apocalyptic carnage of the Civil War, they, just like the Biblical cast out Legion had to find a herd of swine to occupy, which then was the Virginia Prisoner. What this instructs despite the fact that since 1871, the RUFFFIN case has been cited 44 times and the 4th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Virginia cases has on a number of occasions found opprobrium with the Commonwealth of Virginia for daring to resurrect the reprehensibleness of RUFFIN as defense in a number of cases, which show systemic corruption.

So, Governor Abigail Spanberger recently announced the formation of an entity, GOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL ON CORRECTIONS, she presumes as response to what she characterized as "longstanding" issues within the Virginia Department of Corrections or as I correctly describe, Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme. In other words the Council is her Virginia Prison Reform, synthesis. As I stated in the title to this work, well if that is what she thinks, then she should push for it to be an Elected entity, directly responsible to the Supreme Power, in the Commonwealth of Virginia Aka, THE PEOPLE. Because the longstanding issues she spoke of are not contradictions and antagonisms because of the lack of a Council whose existence will reflect the vagaries, whims and caprices of one individual, irrespective of Office and Title and that few with access. Now despite the fact that I strongly disagreed with her selection and choice of JOSEPH WALTERS as Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections and I wanted to see what one of our Virginia Women, our Sistahs would have done in the position, notwithstanding being ground breaking and historical. Still if the Accountability-Function of governance, isn't dependent on personality, but instead Process of Law and the educative instructive of Transparency as the "All Seeing Eye" of THE PEOPLE, then beyond other idealistic, superficiality and short of egregious disqualification, then personality is subordinated. As I started this work with, reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is simple because its all about Accountability and Transparency and there isn't a logic or the most malleable, insidious and manipulative sophistry that can defend asserting its conditionality, nor do I have to be Nietzschean, impart this to Governor Abigail Spanberger, when in that most basic and fundamental manner possible, that of a relatively realized full all around human, she not only understands it as a socio-person, but also professionally. So the point is simple all she as Governor have to do is exercise authority in pursuit of Reform and let the reactionaries emerge howling. Virginia for reasons, I'm unfamiliar with has a structure, that is viably practical of the Accountability-Function, when you think about it, is materially actually close to the People, than other systems, which is the Governorship is a one 4-Year term and done, which then allows a Governor to actually implement what in their and Party's world view develops that business of human existence, which the People can either give a thumbs up to by electing to continue the direction or repudiate it by electing a contrary and opposing world view. This dynamic isn't present in systems where the Governor is seeking reelection, as such the potential exercise of authority assumes and deteriorates into the objectification and crystallization of that ever present inherent and intrinsic systemic corruption, a performative theatrical spectacle of "values" as the People are yoked to a speculative narrative of "tradition" at the expense of what the Society and Social Contract clearly recognizes as hunger for progress. Virginia recently witnessed this, with Terry McAuliffe's Democratic world-view, given the thumbs up by The People seeking its continuation in the election of Ralph Northam who held comparative Democratic world-views. So yes Governor Spanberger has opportunity, to even if what Prison Reform at this juncture in the Commonwealth is emerging as, fertile space for the repudiation and refutation of "talking points", that have their genesis in the dictatorship of intent from the 1600's, she should Speak it. Because it provides the millions of Virginians who accept the practicality of Prisons, but are anti it's dehumanization it's work.

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