SO WHAT IS VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM ACTIVISM NOW THAT A NEW DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR IS COMING IN By William Thorpe

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Let me begin by saying, that there are those who profess and claim to want prison reform in Virginia in all aspects, then they turn right around and undermine its efforts. Whether the sabotage is conscious or not is besides the point, because the results are the same. Undermining the efforts and work of wrangling a system to respect its own formulations, which is reform, has myriad expressions and variegated forms and again it makes no difference if it is conscious and diabolical or due to the consequences of ignorance, the results are the same regardless of immediacy, because impunity and its contradictions confronts only one objective, its resolve and excise. The work of being anti the mess of Virginia's Social Contract, as it is currently exposed in the hapless circumstance of its Prison System, is as historic as the existence of Virginia, firstly as an entity of commercial investment and speculation, then the subsequent exploitation. At each turn the dynamic of reform or to distill it to its irreducible function, the realization that, recognizing that terms and relations of the Social Contract is a human person with dictatorial agency objectified as terms of approximate value exchange, has as a ever present Caduceus, Siamese twin like been there. To what extent this recognition of the human person has been perfected isn't a reflection of its value, hell how many Virginians died during the Civil War in its opposition, yet here we are in the Virginia of the 21st Century, with gleaming tombstones marking the then and now of Lee's surrender on April 9,1865 at Appomattox to Grant and this, see this case: VA. STATE CONF. NAACP v. CNTY.SCH.BD.OF SHENANDOAH CNTY., 2025 U.S.DIST.LEXIS 11726 exists as a damn continuum of one of the worst slaughter of human beings ever under a banner that some humans were less, which is the exact and identical philosophy pursued by the Virginia Department of Corrections in its practice of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner and maintained in its incorrigible opposition to reform, a practical mockery of those lives lost compelling and dictating Lee's surrender, a mockery that is nothing less than a dehumanization which isn't irony in its manifestation against the Virginia prisoner, but defiant speech of incorrigibility. I've developed the point of what this moment of Governor Abigail Spanberger's Administration presents, with firstly, prison reform in Virginia isn't apart from or besides that confrontation with certain fundamental facts that either educate and enlighten or engulf us in that bliss of ignorance which regardless of which denies that dehumanizing narrative of the Virginia Department of Corrections in its pursuit of its self-interest. Secondly, Dehumanization isn't a unilateral existence, it requires and is a reflection of a relationship The issue isn't complicity, tacit cooperation or compulsion but how is it opposed. The state, condition and circumstance of the Virginia prisoner isn't simply and only confined to the concertina and fenced enclosures of Virginia's prisons, but it extends or I should accurately and correctly put it as a symbiotic existence with all that is Virginia. What I'm saying is, let's take for example the neglect and deprivation of medical care to the prisoner, despite the fact that the prisoner is directly harmed by the deprivation and neglect, what do you think is happening to the medical and health care professional who is now corrupted due to their violation of their Hippocratic Oath and doesn't the ensuing corruption taint and makes toxic the healthcare professional as a social person.

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

WE DON'T KNOW HOW CONSCIENTIOUS GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER WILL BE ON ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION, BUT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SIMPLY CANNOT CONTINUE BEING ABOVE LAW By William Thorpe

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Virginia Prisoners have been shipped out to other State Prison Systems, away from Family all because the current Executive-Directorate of the Virginia Department of Corrections could do so. Of course they'll assert all sorts of squaring the circle reasons and logic, but if every circumstance were interrogated on its merits, the People of Virginia will recognize that the only logic is the dictatorship of they, the Virginia Prison Official can so they did. We currently have members on Virginia's Parole Board who expressly have stated, publicly, unequivocally that they would never agree to the parole of certain prisoners, which, would not only be a disqualifier and grounds for their removal off the Board and termination of employment, but cause for legal action of defrauding the People of The Commonwealth of Virginia and failing to administer fairly the laws of Virginia, were we in a honest Social Contract environment, but we are not. We have a culture and tradition maintained by the Virginia Prison Official that perceives the Virginia Prisoner and in extension the social environment of origin as "at odds with", as such is less than, therefore warranting treatment of the enemy combatant and if this isn't explicit it is tacitly accepted as objective of Virginia's Social Contract narrative. We see this in the manner, Virginia's corporate media treats and presents all and any exposé of misdeeds of the Virginia Prison official, either by minimizing or being dismissive. We see concurrently and in congruence, the brazen compromise and at the expense of, whatever honesty was imbued in that Social Contract pursuit of making whole "harm" suffered by "the people", due to the selectivity of what is accepted and understood within the accountability-function parameters as "harm", with the systemic, down played and ignored, while the particular and specific, hyped and sensationalized, despite the fact both the systemic and specific result in "harm". So we see The Commonwealth of Virginia appropriating more treasure and the corruption of labor to dehumanize the people as function of its Justice Infrastructure, including the prison system, than it does to fund their education, health care and job training. Whether Governor Abigail Spanberger can actually rouse Virginia's accountability-function from its Rip Van Winkle slumber is besides the point but what is required of her is what tone will she set? Will she in no uncertain terms convey it to the Virginia Prison Official that the Virginia Prisoner is not an experiment, or a public safety word salad mission statement, or any of those euphemistic buzz cliches deployed and exploited as professional behavior and its sham philosophy as cover and camouflage for that one and only impunity and its above-the-lawism culture and tradition habit of the Virginia Prison official. Yes, Virginia already has the necessary mechanics of accountability-function, what is lacking is its application and practice of "equality under law".

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

THE INAUGURAL: 2026 VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM SENTINEL RECOGNITION By William Thorpe

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Back in the early 1980's as I was growing up in Virginia's hell holes, namely, THE WALL aka 500 Spring St. aka THE VIRGINIA STATE PENITENTIARY, STATE FARM aka POWHATAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER and DA 'BURG aka MECKLENBURG CORRECTIONAL CENTER, with a considerable amount of time in the Solitary Confinement cages of each Prison, we had a Woman MARIE DEANS who has passed, may her existence forever be immortalized, whose work was pure fire, in ensuring that the Virginia Prison Official understood that as much as they plyed in sadism and immunity, they were accountable because she was the ever watchful eye holding and drawing the line. In plain speak she was a SENTINEL and it's in her immortality that I recognize these 3 (three) resolute Virginia Women who are continuing what our Women, our Sistahs have forever done, BE ALERT and WATCH even when we haven't respected, recognized and acknowledged their tireless efforts. Well its my intention to change that (and I trust others will come on board and help in firmly establishing, the SENTINEL RECOGNITION as a defacto celebration showing that where the Virginia Prison Official and allies would dehumanize, we the Virginia Prisoner affirm Humanness and that one and only truth, which is the ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION anchoring us all).So with this INAUGURAL: 2026 VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM SENTINEL RECOGNITION, I shout out NICOLE DEYO of BENDING THE BARS. Nicole as all others who Sentinel like hold the Virginia Prison official to account, do so tirelessly and ceaselessly not because they are anti-Justice, but what they are anti and resolutely stand against and oppose is savagery, barbarism and dehumanization done under law by a system that claims the qualification of Law, while cravenly spitting in its face as a tool and medium of reducing demographics of The People to less than. So she gets this 2026 VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM SENTINEL RECOGNITION Shout Out. Our next recipient is APRIL WRIGHT of UNITING PRISONERS RELATIVES ORGANIZING AGAINST REPRESSION (UPROAR) April exemplifies the classic Virginia Mother whose son is imprisoned by the Commonwealth of Virginia and naturally and commonsensically doesn't have to like the fact her child is behind bars, but as a Virginia citizen, a participant in its Social Contract, she understands that the primary function of government is the Fair Administration of the Law, as such she doesn't (and no one should expect her to) have to like the law and its application to her Son, But this is where that supposed and expected Fair Administration of Law as it relates to her Son's imprisonment circumstance and conditions has been flipped, distorted and turned upside down. Because just as April exemplifies and represents the classic Mother whose son is caught up in the justice system, she also embodies that norm of it's insufferable injustice and experience that the average Virginia Mother lives with due to the savagery and barbarism her son has been subjected to by the Virginia Prison official. Her resolute perseverance demands this 2026 VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM SENTINEL RECOGNITION. Last but not least is MARVA AUSTIN of THE PRISONERS RIGHTS CLINC. Marva speaks for us the Virginia Prisoner on the fraud and vindictive farce of what's left of Virginia's Parole process, because SENTINEL like, she recognizes, its seizure and perversion by reactionaries. She gets this Shout Out.

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

THERE ARE A LOT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED IN THIS WORK OF HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By William Thorpe

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First of all, it is more than "speaking truth to power" as the idealistic refrain goes and my saying this isn't implication that I'm diminishing its utility. But what I'm saying is the formulation, "speaking truth to power", which in any context automatically entails a concession of agency, when agency is understood as that ability to apply or put into practice that which would naturally negate the necessity of the formulation and what I also mean by agency is the role that when we, even as subjects are exhibiting what in effect, fact and practice is "agency" by pushing back, which is what the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable is, against the status quo narrative, for example the narrative that insidiously assumes that the Virginia prison official occupies a privileged professional and social position, as such is above law, which for it to exist, means we are its objects deprived of agency or to put it bluntly we are dehumanized according to its structures and purpose of subordination as defined by its constructed suppositions, that we lack and are incapable of "interests", or in clear speech we are less than, without any specific or general claims to the functional realization of our full humanness as anticipated by Virginia's Social Contract and its terms, which then naturally and consequently means we are at its mercy, without any recognizable will and capacity to present an equal counter narrative. We see this on all fronts of our treatment and relationships with the functions of the State of Virginia, irrespective of our social state and condition of being Free or Imprisoned. Now this capacity to present a counter narrative on our terms as firstly, opposition to violations of terms of the Social Contract and definitions and secondly, that reset and reminder that contrary to any immature presumptions and pursuits of supremacy as revealed as that beyond reproach insinuations resulting in a tolerance of the impunity of for example and for purposes of this work, the Virginia Prison Official as a personification of that dictatorship narrative of subordination. What we take for granted and it isn't that we are incapable of its recognition, but for a universe of reasons that this work is not the place for its scrutiny and analysis, we over look its significance while responding to its existence even as we over look it. What I'm hammering at is the fact that the question of the Virginia prison official's behavior is squarely a political one as such what we have to come to terms with is, its as all other political questions meaning," in whose interests". Who benefits from the misbehavior of the Virginia prison official, what agenda is pursued and satisfied by the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner, in what form and manner is the exploitation of the various characterizations of Virginia's imprisonment scheme done and how is it done and maintained, these are just some of the questions we must confront and then resolve. The first thing we must and have to come to terms with is no one faction in Virginia society and the Social Contract lattice has a monopoly on answers, notwithstanding and despite the fact that we do take for granted that certain factions do and this recognition and our ability to then reclaim the narrative in its context that running a foul of law isn't endemic to a demographic, but is symptomatic of sets of relations that we all as Humans have something to say to, is part of the work.

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

SO WHAT DOES, MERRY CHRISTMAS vs HAPPY HOLIDAYS HAVE TO DO WITH HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE, COME TO FIND OUT A LOT By William Thorpe

Man there are so many word flips I could've titled this work with, each making the same point: which is when a Society is fast approaching its Super Nova moment, the first things to go are the fissures, which, when healthy, fulfill and satisfy the social physics of contraction and expansion and are held and kept in place by the counter balancing equilibrium of the center must hold gravity of competing interests and that accompanying inherent accountability-function necessary and a must for survival. But when that socio physics of contraction and expansion or its more recognizable presence as Contradictions and Antagonisms, treats its necessary for survival and existence accountability-function as a nuisance and impediment, what we encounter are that proverbial fiddling as Rome burns expressed as an inordinate expenditure of energies on the production of for example, a sophistry cataloguing electoral activity and its accountability-function on the terms of if one says Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays, a par none existence of Social inanities, insidiously serving the function and purpose of distracting and working double time at distorting the fact that the accountability-function or rule of law, its due process and fair administration, necessary and a requisite for the survival and existence of the people as THE BUSINESS OF BEING HUMAN is pursued and realized, has been tossed aside, because its much easier to enslave than to exercise the prescience and mental acuity of recognizing and its value, that when all in the boat are rowing in the same direction and not out of the lash of the whip and its inducing idealistic fear, but of the cognition and understanding that "we are all in the boat together, equal under the consequence of rocking it", which for that ingenious and economic purpose, of freeing up brain space for other realizations, we have embodied as the ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION. So what Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays have to do with holding the Virginia prison official accountable, is everything, because it reveals to what extent, as the People we are cognizant of the fact that when we all are subordinate to and subject to a norm of accountability, each according to terms of equality of process, whether we are able to pursue maximally, to the constructive realization of our existence and person hood, isn't dependent on the dictatorial presumptions and its antagonisms of whether you greeted and recognized your fellow human in Society, which for purposes of this work, the Commonwealth of Virginia, with Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays.

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