Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee: NORTH CAROLINA PRISON OFFICIALS SHACKLED A FEMALE PRISONER WHO WAS HAVING A BABY, THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, WHICH VIRGINIA IS UNDER ITS JURISDICTION---SAID NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT AND WE COMMEND THEM By William Thorpe

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

NORTH CAROLINA PRISON OFFICIALS SHACKLED A FEMALE PRISONER WHO WAS HAVING A BABY, THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, WHICH VIRGINIA IS UNDER ITS JURISDICTION---SAID NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT AND WE COMMEND THEM By William Thorpe


When People in whose authority Systems viz LAW exist and function do the right thing we acknowledge, recognize and even commend them and we have one of those moments in the case: EDWARDS v. WITHERSPOON 2026 U.S APP. LEXIS 27847.Our work is on Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has authority over to what extent its circumstances are relatively lawful. The imprisonment scheme of the State of North Carolina, is also under 4th Circuit jurisdiction, so situations in North Carolina are on legal equal footing as Virginia. But besides the jurisdictional relevance, the fact that the professional determinations of a prison official can be expressed in shackling a pregnant Prisoner in labor, underscores, the Speech of our Virginia work. Secondly the work of the Judges in the EDWARDS case, specifically Judges DIAZ, GREGORY and BENJAMIN (who wrote the Opinion) as it stands should be recognized, for providing analysis that is accessible to us all. I BEGIN: The EDWARDS case, not only is it analytically revelatory, but it also indicts. For starters, the case is about a pregnant prisoner having a baby, it also deals with Opioid use and flabbergasting prison bureaucracy as embodied in the Administration of Dehumanization, evidenced in the summary treatment of a female human in labor. It also indicts the hypocrisy of certain noisy Establishment Institutions, of their typical presence and intrusions into all sorts of Social issues by their absence, as nothing more than crass opportunity. We don't find the various Church and "faith" based Groups and Organizations exploiting the Amicus Curiae system with their dictatorial suppositions, which is odd. Because one would think, supporting a Woman who happens to be imprisoned and is being subjected to State practiced dehumanization, its opposition qualifies for Evangelical critique and opprobrium. Yet the critique is not so surprisingly absent. I will let the suspect Organizations speak for themselves without prompt from our work. What I will however say is, certain things are apparent. The suspect Organizations who typically are present in the Amici environment, having everything to say on all sorts of irrelevances, besides pathetic hypocrisy, clearly haven't resolved the honesty of practice of certain of their unambiguous basic tenets and quite frankly that isn't a sin, that's essentially the human condition, the honesty of resolving contradictions. Another thing the EDWARDS case also does, is allow certain "thought" to, firstly expose their existence, then stutter their way into that proverbial, what, "the cat got your tongue?". Because it confronts the sophistry presented in works as: REVISITING THE CRITIQUE OF THOSE WHO UPHELD THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT IN THE 1840's AND 50's--58 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 290 by PETER KARSTEN. Because if we are to accept the defense of Qualified Immunity, which is nothing more than a perpetual end run, which is practically what PETER KARSTEN ask of us in his REVISITING... THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT work, which we also encounter in the DISSENT in LEWIS v. CARABALLO 98 F.4th 521, where a 15 year old boy, CAMERON LEWIS was getting his brain bashed in by a Maryland State Trooper and the Maryland Officer raised as defense, that there wasn't any law that said an Officer cannot bash a human being's brain in under the logic of the arrest process. Now PETER KARSTEN in his FUGITIVE SLAVE work didn't couch, it in QUALIFIED IMMUNITY terms yet it is.

By William Thorpe

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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