The Black And White Of Holding The Virginia Prison Official Accountable Is Politics By William Thorpe

Okay, Virginia Code Section 53.1-30 (A) allows any member of Virginia's General Assembly, including the Governor access to any of Virginia's Prisons. There isn't any excuse why Delegates and Senators of The People of Virginia rarely exercise the right. Considering the fact that even under a rock, isn't Rip Van Winkle removed enough to be oblivious that what is being done by Prison Officials of The Virginia Department Of Corrections in the name of The People has nothing to do with a primary function of preparing The Virginia Prisoner for social reentry. Virginia Code Section 18.2-10 specifies punishment for convictions of felonies in The Commonwealth of Virginia which are imprisonment and fines. Virginia Code Section 53.1-1through 53.1-267 gives a generalized idea of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. I have given the basic laws dealing with Virginia's prison and imprisonment scheme, but the laws are not the basis, the foundation of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure of which the prison system is function. The basis however is The Politics. The Politics is what stops and inhibits The Peoples Representatives or Virginia Politician from going to Virginia's Prisons i.e Red Onion, Wallens Ridge, Sussex I State Prisons, even if its a Photo Op, as President Barack Obama's with his visit to a Federal prisoner at a Federal Prison during his push for reduction of drug sentences and focus on solitary confinement, to take seriously the fact that the "above the law" behavior of the prison official is a rot on Virginia's Social Contract. I have listed Va .Code 18.2-10, the punishment for felony convictions law to highlight that the sentence and fine is the punishment. Everything else and I mean everything else the prisoner experiences as condition of the imprisonment is based on ideas and speculations of what The Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections thinks and feels will serve the ruling political masters interest. So to hold the prison official accountable requires the narrative of political reform. Political reform isn't necessarily about Republican or Democratic critique, but its about an accounting of relations within Virginia's Social Contract that indicts reaction and its anti-reform insentience. Classic Virginia politics has nauseatingly exploited the Justice Infrastructure at the expense of remedying its aggravating circumstances, while pursuing the unoriginal scapegoating of the prisoner, as diversion from its true subject or focus of its political energies, which is maintaining an iron grip on the mass demographic from whom the Virginia prisoner is born. My position is, this is known and clearly understood by those who perennially seek votes from the prisoner's family and the victims of crime and their families. The reality nonetheless is the exploited demographic of that political same ole same ole has to come to terms with their complicity and accept not as petty criticism but the realization that every relationship or point of interaction had with the social contract provides opportunity to assert and attest that the requisite politics is specifically an understanding of its common interest. The law is politics, its extension or expression. The civil rights act of 1871 was passed to stop Klan terror of Black people yet it wasn't enforced till 1961 in Monroe v. Pape 365 US 167, appx 90 years after its passage because the politics in 1961 permitted it.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit

To The Attorney General Of The Commonwealth Of Virginia Jason Miyares Is Unhinged By William Thorpe

 

No one likes the rule breaker. Virginia's prison cages are full of those who summarily responded to personal violations (which is their sovereign right) but as members of the social contract, such right is transferred and surrendered to the collective as laws of the Commonwealth. No one likes the thief, even as Jesus Christ ascribed value to "the thief in the night" (Matthew 24:43-44). I begin with this, let me add one more anecdote, the Nations founding Fathers, specifically, the 56, who signed the Declaration of Independence with oath, ["And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor"]. beginning with John Hancock to Georgia's, George Walton. All, of em, every last one were petty crass criminals, traitors from the vantage and position of Great Britain, who they rebelled against and there is nothing more fundamental a crime than the relativity of treason which is what the 56 declarators of the Nations Independence committed, but to quote James Clavell in SHOGUN, "there is no excuse for rebellion.....there's one if you win" [pp.1147] and the 56 signers of The Declaration of Independence won. As such exist eternally as historic paragons of virtue, totems of quintessential self-determination. These anecdotes stand as reminder and basis of why Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the prison system requires reform as the sunflower follows the arc of the Sun. Because reactionaries as Jason Miyares in his role as attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for whatever reason would rather we forget and gloss over the fact, deviance and criminality or rule breaking are organic facts of the dialectic of the human condition. A couple of days ago, Jason Miyares sent the entire Virginia General Assembly a polical tract in pursuit of the typical tough on crime scapegoating of the Virginia prisoner. To excerpt some of what attorney general Jason Miyares sent, "Recent history of Earned Sentence Credit Legislation prior to 2020, as then set forth in Code sec.53.1-202.3,The Commonwealth maintained as part of its sentence credit system a longstanding truth-in-sentencing rule whereby all inmates sentenced to serve on felonies would serve at least 85% of their sentences......Although the sentence credit system, as amended excludes many violent felonies. It alarmingly permits inmates to earn the enhanced earned sentence credits......"(Jason Miyares) Notwithstanding the disinformation of Jason Miyares, tract. What I want to focus on is, what social contract dynamic is animating Jason Miyares? Because for example there are real reasons, why the likes of William Wilberforce, Frederick Douglas to name a couple opposed chattel slavery or why Cesare Beccaria critiqued crime and punishment. There are reasons why participant administrators in the modern American prison experiment as Robert W. Dumond write it's exposé or why prison jurisprudence is a mockery of The United States Constitution and Virginia law. Virginia's scheme of awarding "good time" or credits applicable to a prison sentence are affirmative recognition by the people, yes the Commonwealth that even Solomonic wisdom factors in the nuance of causality. But the Miyares of Virginia would rather dictate to the Mother of the convicted and in extension the victim of crime what is Justice at the expense of its distortion.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit

A Careful Study Of 34 USCS 30309 And 108 P.L.79, 117 Stat. 972 Detailing The, Prison Rape Elimination Act Of 2003 Is Astonishing By William Thorpe

Conventional wisdom, opines that Politicians, law and policy makers are apathetic and even deaf to the commonsensical and practical observations delivered by Prison Reformist, that the typical treatment meted out to the American Prisoner and the conditions of the imprisonment, which is akin to the activity of the colloquial "snake oil" salesman is counter intuitive and self defeatist on all levels of the American Prison experiment. So when one encounters, analysis and unambiguous declarations in this milieu, reminiscent of the futility and reaction of the 19th century's "Know-Nothings", it must be acknowledged. Because it presents us with that axiom, the"genie is out of the bottle" and no amount of sophistry can deny the fact, ignorance as defense doesn't exist anymore. Which is exactly what the 108th U.S. Congress revealed with their work on The Prison Rape Elimination Act. Because all one has to do is replace the word "rape" in the Act with any circumstance of prison that is systemic and a DeFacto condition and the findings and conclusions hold true and factual. So the only question is why are, Prison Officials allowed to run prisons as they do when law makers and policy makers are firmly grounded in the knowledge that the operations and current management of prisons are Sisyphean in their singular focus on aggravating and worsening the circumstances of the imprisoned? And as a matter of fact, it is fraudulent and a betrayal of the public's trust that the prison official are for example taking control of a 18 yr. old sentenced to prison on account of a conviction of drug dealing and treating the 18yr. old in that manner, which Philosophers as Cesare Beccaria (1739-1794) criticized 259 years ago. Now as this relates to Virginia law makers and politicians, all I ask is they reread and study 34 USCS 30309, the findings, replace the word "rape" with for example the Virginia prison officials habit of sicing dogs on Virginia prisoners, or starving prisoners then lying about it, denying prisoners outside exercise, then lying about it, refusing to process prisoner complaints, then lying about it, employing a pro forma rubber stamp for what should be a honest process of prisoner release from solitary confinement. In other words terrorizing the prisoner. Or how about we scrutinize the Virginia lawmakers behavior in passing laws concerning the imprisoned that render the ex prisoner socially dysfunctional all along scapegoating the resulting and inevitable pitfalls. In other words the realization of Article 1 of The Constitution of Virginia is that proverbial, cutting off the nose to spite the face. Because thats exactly what the unwillingness of all of Virginia's Institutions, from its law schools, churches and places of religion, to all sectors of the Social Contract to face up to the fact, that something is seriously awry in a society when the dominant and major outlay and expense of its productivity is for confining humans in cages. In 1965, Lord Chancellor Gardiner of the British House of Lords, had this to say to his bewigged brethren, over the state practice of killing people. It is apt for this work."When we abolished the punishment for treason that you should be hanged, and then cut down while still alive,and then disemboweled while still alive and then quartered, we did not abolished the punishment because we sympathized with traitors, but because we took the view that it was a punishment no longer consistent with our self respect ",

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit

You Gotta Be Kidding Me, Virginia Republicans Again, Allow The Virginia Department Of Corrections Veto Over Oversight ? When Will Virginians Wise Up To This Fox Guarding The Hen House Politics ? By William Thorpe

Virginia Republicans are well aware that The Commonwealth Of Virginia (taxpayers) reportedly pays out $2 million yearly to private attorneys, on top of whatever settlement levied against the State in lawsuits brought against The Virginia Department Of Corrections. Because Sen. Dave Marsden, D-Fairfax, highlighted it during the recent legislative fight to get The Virginia Department Of Corrections in compliance with and to abide by laws all Virginians are subject to. The Republican Party, Nationally and Locally, (Virginia) has created a cottage industry of polemicizing against governmental spending it disagrees with and abhors as wasteful. And there isn't a Virginia taxpayer (save for the beneficiaries) who would disagree that doling out $2 million yearly to lawyers on top of settlement penalties due to unlawful and extra-judicial behavior by prison officials isn't wasteful, when all the prison official has to do is stop breaking the law. Nonetheless Republicans have consistently enabled and principally supported the prison officials presumptuous above the law activities and practically accorded The Virginia Department Of Corrections veto powers over efforts to subject it to actual and legitimate oversight. During this 2024 Virginia General Assembly Legislative session, again Democrats worked to establish Department Of Corrections specific oversight mechanisms, regardless of how much teeth it would have, it was an unassailable assertion. Sen. Dave Marsden, sponsor of The Virginia Prison Ombudsman-Oversight proposal said, [as reported by Graham Moomaw on 2/13/24] "I think what it will do is cut down on the $2 million we pay every year for outside counsel with the attorney general's office to settle lawsuits". Marsden told the committee. "I think a lot of these can be short-stopped by an ombudsman" . In opposition to the bill/proposal, The Virginia Department Of Corrections Legislative liaison Jerry Fitz, declared how The Department sees itself as an above the law entity, not subject to oversight by the Virginia voter and taxpayer (who by the way not only gives it its authority but funds it) with, "the costs of implementing a more robust oversight system would be unknown", and that ombudsman oversight, "would create another layer of government". Then The Virginia House Appropriations Committee with Republicans in the majority voted straight party line to agree with VADOC that it'd be onerous and a burden for it to comply with the law. I mean seriously, an agency tasked with confining those convicted of breaking laws claiming it should be allowed to break the law, because complying with it "would create... another layer of government" and "the costs of [compliance] would be unknown"? And the peoples representatives, politicians voted for to maintain social integrity under law, agreeing with a state agency that being watchful of its activities is at odds and will impede its functioning? And politicians tasked with the responsibility of ensuring oversight of all of Virginia government outsources the privilege to the subject? At the expense of that laboriously gleaned realization, absolute power corrupts absolutely? Hasn't VADOC taught us that enough?

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit

Virginia It's Time To Exercise Your Referendum Rights Under Article 1 Section 2 Of The Constitution Of Virginia, To Put A Stop To Suicides, Forced Starvations At The State's Concentration Camps, By William Thorpe

The Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled in Williams v. Legere 77 Va. App. 422, "A referendum is an exercise by the voters of their traditional right through direct legislation to override the views of their elected representatives as to what serves the public interest". There isn't a more clear cut and divergent speech of what The People want from that declared in the confines of Virginia's General Assembly by the elected representatives, than on the issue of Virginia's prisons specifically and the justice infrastructure generally. (and when I say The People, I include Prisoners, those confined within the State and those its exported out of State under interstate compact and those released, but disenfranchised). Our ancients cogently and wisely have instructed that when the issue is, one encompassing, the fundamental authority of the State, it's assertion and exercise of police powers or 'organized violence', there cannot be a specific indictment but a general one.What this means is a distaste to act as if causality isn't within the historic confines of Social Contract. As an aside, the habit to ignore causality, is an inexorable operative of impunity. Not to get all into a history lesson. Prior to the civil war, 1861, the Nations prisons had a different character from the post war one that emerged, particularly after passage of The 13th amend.and it's nationalization of slavery. Pre civil war Black people weren't imprisoned and if they were, it was negligible, because the majority were chattel enslaved. It defeated the purpose of the enslavement to imprison an enslaved. But post defeat of the Confederacy and passage of the 13th amend. that purportedly outlawed slavery, prisons across the Nation saw an explosion of black prisoners, because imprisonment meant a return to what slavery meant, which was free unpaid work and the Nation needed free unpaid labor. On this character transformation of the American prisons, impunity and its above the law tendencies recreated the organic conditions of slavery which currently exist as the barbarity of prison. As it concerns Virginia, Republicans have revealed themselves to be nothing more than neo-confedrates, pining for Robert E. Lee coming down Monument Ave. so their idea of prison is just as their world view, reactionary with the requsite impunity of the prison official. Democrats on the other hand relatively and idealistically recognize that for the integrity of the Social Contract and it's maintenance as declared in Article 1 section 1, of The Constitution of Virginia a semblance of equality under law, as applied to the prison system and justice infrastructure is required. Nonetheless prisoners are politically scapegoated for access to speculative power, as such the social condition that births and creates them is maligned and exploited, thus imposing, subjecting and treating the "free" Virginian existing in those conditions just as if they were imprisoned. So this recognition for a referendum to finally bring accountability to the maladministration of The Virginia Department Of Corrections is for Virginians who understand and accept that equality under law and accountability of the prison official are a symbiosis of the self-interest necessary if they are not to be constantly and repeatedly exploited by the law and order, tough on crime machinations that breed the environment of deviance.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit