I CHALLENGE GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER TO CORRECT THIS FRAUD AND DISINGENUOUS DEED BY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS By William Thorpe

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Every single Politician of every persuasion across the Nation claims to keep a keen eye out for fraud and wasteful spending. This work isn't critique one way or the other, but the fraud and disingenuous claim is factual and not opinion. The Commonwealth of Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison along with its Sister Kamp Wallens Ridge State Prison have perpetrated a fraud on the People of the Commonwealth, beginning in 2011,with a specific program that presented itself under all the typical language exploited by State Organized Violence when it is committing fraud and being disingenuous. This program commencing in 2011 oriented itself around SOLITARY CONFINEMENT as a specific and particular unto itself type of imprisonment of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Solitary Confinement in Virginia or in the general imprisonment context isn't, novel. The creation of The Penitentiary itself in the Nation was an exploitation of solitary confinement and the subsequent criticism by the Supreme Court of The United States, in the case IN RE MEDLEY 134 U.S.160 that, and I paraphrase that it was an infamous condition, that drove its imprisoned victims insane. So when the Virginia Department of Corrections decided it would go all out and in on a Solitary Confinement regime at its major Koncentration Kamps in 2011 it was well aware of the conventional definitive and accepted consensus on its type and nature of imprisonment, yet it went on ahead and implemented it as a comprehensive condition of imprisonment in Virginia and that is also the fundamental and primary definition of fraud. [see Black's Law: Fraud, 1.A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment. Fraud is usually a tort, but in some cases (esp. when the conduct is willful) it may be a crime].When Virginia Department Prison Officials and Executives decided to implement a comprehensive Solitary Confinement regime disingenuously titled SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM, they were well aware that it was anything but and whatever logic were presented to Representatives of the Virginia People at the General Assembly were patently misrepresentations and disinformation towards the implementation. The fraudulent applications of the Virginia Prison Official doesn't in anyway form or manner absolve Virginia oversight Legislators from responsibility and tacit complity, from the harm wrought on the various demographics and classes of People of the Commonwealth by the fraud of the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, which besides the human cost, which the Supreme Court of The U.S identified in its March 3, 1890 IN RE MEDLEY ruling and findings, the STEP DOWN PROGRAM has been a prima facie example of wasteful spending, as in how the State is having to defend it in Court. 

Let's take a step back, to understand how we got to this place that Virginia Government Officials in the form of Prison Officials foisted fraud and disingenuous narratives on the People of Virginia. So during the tenure of Ed Murray as Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, from 1986--1994, Virginia Officials realized that new prisons would be needed, as such Director Murray laid the ground work for what became Virginia's building spree of Prisons, particularly SUSSEX I and II, then RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS. The building of the Prisons occurred under the Republican Administration of the racist Governor George Allen of Macaca infamy, which as preposterous and weird as it sounds, later claimed that Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison was his "monument".But that's an aside from the issue of fraud and disingenuous narratives. So prior to the construction of the aforementioned prisons, Virginia had an early entry into the SUPER- MAX Prison business way back in 1977 with a Prison called MECKLENBURG TREATMENT CENTER, then later changed to CORRECTIONAL CENTER. The TREATMENT CENTER moniker was a result of the then prevailing speculations and assumptions that Prisoners designated and described by the Commonwealth of Virginia via The Department of Corrections as "trouble-makers" or "worst of the worst" would be "treated" under Solitary Confinement conditions, not unlike its resurrected familiar at RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS in 2011 under fraudulent and disingenuous narratives as SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. It was as if detaining an imprisoned Virginian under SOLITARY CONFINEMENT conditions was like giving someone Tylenol or Advil, because they had a headache. This is what was being done in the name of the People of Virginia in 1977 and again was resurrected in 2011 by Virginia Department of Corrections apparatchiks. The thing is just as Virginia Department of Corrections apparatchiks are now wasting Virginia taxpayer money in Court Room after Court Room fighting claims by Virginia Prisoners that the Solitary Confinement regime of the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN is everything that is wrong with the Human Condition, so where Prisoners detained in MECKLENBURG'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PHASE PROGRAM then also fighting the same comparative Program, [see BROWN v. LANDON], even to the point of Prisoners then taking over Buildings, holding Prison Officials hostage in 1984 to draw attention to the savagery and barbarity of MECKLENBURG'S imprisonment condition. Which resulted not only in the PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime being discontinued, but the Virginia Legislature demanding a comprehensive study of what could have gone so catastrophically wrong with MECKLENBURG. The task fell to Virginia's legislative Investigative arm, the JLARC (JOINT LEGISLATIVE AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMISSION), who submitted their findings in a Report in 1985,which among many conclusions, determined that Virginia should never ever again, place and congregate all of the so-called "worst of the worst" prisoners at one Prison. But in 1998 Governor George Allen of Macaca infamy, I guess seeing tributes to himself as RAMESES II and his Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp "monument", along with the then Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Ron Angelone, who I can only describe as another Rudy Guliani saw fit to ignore the JLARC's advisement and made a Public Relations spectacle of not only promoting the notion of a Virginia "worst of the worst" ( who it turned out most were old scores being settled, vindictively) prisoner being confined at Red Onion State Prison and its other sisters, but the Virginia public was told that these Prisons would be called "STATE PRISONS", in anticipation of the Koncentration Kamp heritage.

As I stated earlier, the practice of detaining Prisoners in Solitary Confinement is a General one. The Virginia Department of Corrections has always used it, notwithstanding whether it's specific and comprehensive as in MECKLENBURG'S PHASE PROGRAM or RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. Regardless of how its packaged along with euphemistic moniker, it is basically the same beast, a type of imprisonment and confinement that quickly disintegrates into every single base expression of that axiom and maxim, "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Because you have a situation where the prison officials tasked with the organized violence of its circumstance, having the proximity of absolute power during specific interactions with the prisoner, whether its allowing the prisoner showers, outside exercise, meal serving and all the various opportunities i.e strip search procedures, the prison official has to deny and deprive the prisoner a duty, by lying that the prisoner failed to comply with whatever cockamamie instruction command or directive. Are intrinsically realizing and recognizing its corrupting impact on them, yet are, according to the labor dynamic of the business of human existence, subordinate to its performance to receive a pay check and its much more easier and opportunistic (and God or the Devil has nothing to do with it, but is the same sort of initial human behavior displayed by the prisoner resulting in criminal adjudication as cause for the initial imprisonment, which makes the case for accountability of the Virginia prison official) for them to transfer the impotence of their existence onto the Prisoners going through the harm of solitary confinement, in all sorts of base ways, than challenge their supervisors on the character of the ask. Which then poses another question for Society and the Social Contract, where you have socio-persons employed in a job that is corrupting by all metrics, induced into cowardice, evidenced in the inability to question the ethics and overarching morality of the job, and are overtly and implicitly influenced and instructed by their superiors and peer pressure to indulge and engage in the corrupt and criminal behavior, of dehumanizing the Prisoner, because regardless, it is still illegal and against Virginia law for the Prison Official to violate the existence of the Virginia prisoner, considering that the Virginia prisoner is the very embodiment of Virginia law, because it created him. And we see this clearly in the Solitary Confinement type of imprisonment. The character of the fraud and disingenuous narrative foisted on the People of Virginia by Virginia Department of Corrections bureaucrats in 2011, which Governor Abigail Spanberger can summarily correct, is this, regardless of reason and logic of incentive, the SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime of THE STEP DOWN PROGRAM at RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS is premised on a fabrication. Red Onion State Prison opened in 1998 with the Operational model of a General Population, general Solitary Confinement which was relatively indeterminate,(but it wasn't a specific type of imprisonment as THE STEP DOWN PROGRAM of 2011,whose ambition was to keep certain Prisoners in its type of imprisonment in perpetuity), then there was an in between type of housing for prisoners who were not given the full movement of General Population prisoners, yet were not subject to the deprivations of the solitary confined. The detention of these three classes of Prisoners were what Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons opened with in 1998 and 1999 respectively. So, between 1998 and 1999, nothing changed and I emphasize that materially nothing changed from the opening of those two Koncentration Kamps, to the 2011 implementation of SOLITARY CONFINEMENT as a specific unto itself Virginia imprisonment scheme, but a money-making gambit.

The 2011 resurrection at Koncentration Kamps Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons of the reprobate and indefensible MECKLENBURG style PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime under its new moniker SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM, was Fraud on the People of Virginia upon a disingenuous narrative and Governor Abigail Spanberger has authority to summarily correct it. Along with a comprehensive investigation by Virginia's General Assembly into the entire creation genealogy of the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. What the People of Virginia can do if the Governor and the General Assembly are unwilling to act is make this a Central issue on all fronts, by harnessing and applying their ingenuity, creativity and tactical industriousness. Now let me say this, historically a lot of egregious deeds have been done in the name of the People of Virginia. The egregiousness of the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, within modern times is without equal and comparison and instead of having me a Prisoner one of its initial first three Prisoners at Red Onion subjected to its regime speak to you about it. I'd rather you the Virginia People get everything about it using your position as the "Supreme Power", because Virginia is politically a COMMONWEALTH, meaning that "We The People" actually is the People and not a conditional and relative privilege, to learn why those Prison bureaucrats and apparatchiks thought they really could again get away with another fraud on We The People. As I've stated previously Virginia had a general practice of solitary confinement, under which the prisoner was reviewed every 90 days for possible release even though release wasn't certain at Red Onion. So for example let's use my situation as example. I was placed in solitary confinement in 1996 after a hostage incident at Virginia's Nottoway Correctional Center, this detention was the historical general solitary confinement sort, which was still Solitary Confinement without end, but it didn't present itself as an unto itself Virginia imprisonment. Even though I was sent to Mecklenburg prison, which once upon a time had a unto itself Solitary Confinement regime, but by 1996 had long since discontinued it as the savage and barbarous PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime. Then when Red Onion opened in 1998 I was one of the first to open its A-Building, where I was tossed naked in A-301.So from 1996 through 2011 I was detained under the general solitary confinement regime. If prison officials wanted to release me from solitary confinement they could have, because process already existed. Nothing had changed in my circumstance since the Nottoway incident of 1996 which had been adjudicated in court and I was given an additional 30 year sentence. So when those responsible for the fraudulent STEP DOWN PROGRAM decided to implement it and decided that even though nothing had changed in my circumstance since my initial placement in solitary confinement in 1996 that my presence and existence under this being constructed unto itself type of Virginia imprisonment that would be Solitary Confinement in perpetuity was necessary only makes a mockery of the very same law they exploited in structuring the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. Which the People of Virginia have been spending millions of Dollars, defending the fraud in Court and paying out hundreds of thousands of Dollars in settlements to Prisoners who have successfully sued the State because of the actions of those corrupt Virginia Prison Officials and their disingenuous narrative which their complicit allies in Virginia's General Assembly allowed to stand in creating the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, at the expense and in compromise of oversight, entailing transparency and the Accountability-Function of governance, which the People anticipate is done.

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