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
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