OURSELVES, OUR AGENCY ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND VALUED RESOURCE IN THIS WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME AND HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By Wililiam Thorpe

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The Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee (VAPAC) was birthed on the simple premise, that for every single imprisoned person in Virginia there exist at least to a factor of 10 persons who have a direct, immediate and intimate concern of the treatment and well-being, the conditions and circumstances of Virginia's imprisonment scheme imposes on the Prisoner. As such, the first and preeminent identified circumstance is that of the malfeasance and above-the-lawism of the Virginia Prison Official, to which the response, resolution and expectation, is the commonsense of holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable. Because, it isn't that we envision a Prison Condition where the Prison Official is a paragon of virtue, on the contrary we anticipate criminality by the Prison Official, because the Prison Official is relatively human. But what we defacto stand for is a dynamic mechanism of holding the Virginia Prison official accountable. So the work of VAPAC is a synthesizing presence, where The People, whether Family, Ally and Friend of the Virginia Prisoner, will value that their very own individual experiences are not isolated nor alienated deductions, but correct instinctive insights into that which is done in their name, as People of the Commonwealth by the same People they voted for to exercise, sagacity and judiciousness. Still, (and now I say this as a Prisoner under Virginia's Jurisdiction, despite being held in exile in the Texas prison system) the fact is our Families, Allies and Friends who conscientiously and fastidiously speak and advocate for US, still do so within our imaginative bounds. What I mean is, Virginia's Government in its form of the Justice Infrastructure and its Virginia Department of Corrections, isn't concerned with its effected Injustices, because even among free members of Virginia Society, harm and Injustices to the socio-person are not only anticipated, expected but accepted as part of that crass "cost benefit analysis". What I'm saying is besides the existence of process for the harmed to seek redress, the very idea of harm and Injustice from the actions of Virginia's Government are downplayed and minimized in all sorts of ways that say it loud and clear that the socio-person should not only expect harm and Injustice from Government, but, and when it does occur its no big deal. This work isn't about getting all into that analysis of those Social Contract terms, despite the fact that its existence is felt, like the gravitational effects of a yet to be discovered lurking Star. So the imaginative bounds of seeking redress of the criminality of the Virginia Prison official by the Virginia Prisoner are defined by the dictates of Law chuted in a narrow and designed to be relatively impotent, manner in it's ability to defacto achieve accountability. However despite the fact that the free Virginia socio-person is also defined by law, albeit in a more expansive manner. So considering the capabilities contemporary technology avails to the average Family, Ally and Friend of the Virginia prisoner, the work of structuring and organizing the obligatory Speech which is the mechanism of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, shouldn't be limited to the typical. But just as VAPAC premised its structure on the factor of 10 of concerned, persons of the character and nature of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which unit self is imaginative, not as a novel construct but recourse.

The work, and I should rather say, our work of Prison Reform anticipates that Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner focus on this simple truism, that holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, begins and ends with the organized nature of Speech. I do need to emphasize and stress this with how I speak on Speech. Speech to make a long story short, is the organized, concerted and committed activity of The People asserting a specific and necessary point of view, that is organic, responsible and determinative of the Progress of their existence. At times, this point of view will be in accord with pre-existing acceptances and understanding within Virginia Society, because it furthers the interest of whoever is in the status quo. At others, especially when it concerns holding accountable activities of Virginia Government expressed by the Prison Official, the Peoples point of view will not only be in diametric opposition to the status quo's narrative, but it will take on a confrontational one, not because the People, Family, Ally and Friends standing on the Speech of holding the Virginia Prison official accountable are in a confrontational stance, but the stylized archaic and idealistic formulations of governance is yet to mature to that practical recognition [even though such has always been apparent] and acceptance that interrogation of the Accountability-Function of the Constituted Aspirations of the People by the People isn't a zero sum game where a status quo loses "something", just because the People are arrayed in rank and file on the order that "equality under Law and its Process" isn't mere aspiration, but a material fact, as the all so material realization of the "Business of Human Existence". So the point is, there isn't any other aspect of Society and the Social Contract that lays bare every single contradiction and antagonism of Virginia's business of human existence, than the imprisonment scheme. Because even as all Virginians are approximate creations of Virginia law, the Virginia Prisoner is its defacto creation, as such is the most lawful. Now I don't have to go all into every single analytic minutia of the correctness of how the Virginia prisoner is the most lawful of Virginia's classes, save to state that if it rings odd it is so, because in order for Virginia's Government as governance to apply its regime of dehumanizing the prisoner, it has to not merely violate its own established laws, but negate and contradict its very existence. Which brings us full circle to our work of demanding the affirmation of the Accountability-Function. The last thing Virginia Politicians, specifically Republicans want to be concerned with is the Intellectual-liberalism consequence of their approach towards oversight of the Virginia Prison official. Which reveals their actual relationship with the Law, despite their adroitness at deceiving those susceptible for the usual reasons, that they are its defenders. We know that the only aspects of law they defend are those vestiges and remnants of its feudal and antebellum task master, that furthers the opportunity of whatever interest they presume, which is what births our reform work in opposition. Reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is that comprehensive acknowledgement and its operative requirement that THE PEOPLE are fully involved with the direction the underlying philosophy embraces, based on the unconditional refutation of dehumanization as any sort of self styled penological construct. Our obligation is simple and straightforward we refute with each and every opportunity the status quo narrative that is wretchedly mired in the philosophy of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, exposing it in all its guise.

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