Tuesday, January 23, 2024
It is not only a recurring theme, but it would seem to be the main theme, if not the only theme. People, human beings, are dropping dead while in custody of the Virginia DOC. They are dying. It is strictly due to VaDOC policy, and in most cases it is wholely avoidable. Whether it is a death due to past surgery complications (sepsis) as in the case of Donnie Wayne Perry, being eaten alive by cancer as in the case of Robert Teindolt, or the dozens of overdoses occurring every week at every VaDOC prison (yet another death at Dilwyn this past week, where they average 3-5 OD’s per week), this is the outcome expected.
We are on yet another lockdown at Dilwyn Corruption Center. The usual response to a drug overdose that could not be salvaged into a story of survival. This lockdown will consist of all the usual fun and games; guards in not so fancy uniforms ripping through the personal belongs of 80 people crammed into overcrowded warehouses (literally). Strip searches and X-rays of too thin bed mats and pillows that you couldn’t hide a pad of paper in. Denied exercise, cut off from contact with friends and family, exactly all the things that might influence a person to want to escape from reality by getting high. The VaDOC is not only exacerbating the mental health crisis that lead to addiction and relapses, but it is widely reported and as widely understood and accepted it is VaDOC staff who are responsible for the majority of the drugs brought through the gates.
The VaDOC now intercepts every item mailed to captives, including but not limited to: legal mail, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books and more. VaDOC interception requires all of the above be mailed to a central processing hub (the Central Scrutinizer) where it is x-rayed, processed by dogs, opened by drugs coming in to VaDOC prisons by any measurable amount. Visitations are also highly monitored to the point of being invasive and violating, again changing nothing. All of this is to cover up the VaDOC’s staff being the main problem, aside from continuing archaic, and proven failed, drug policies of all levels of government.
In some buildings at Dilwyn, people will be getting high only a few hours after their building is done being searched. You might be surprised by such a revelation, but not a single captive or staff member at DWCC is the least bit caught off guard. In fact it will not be a surprise if there is an OD or even a death just a few hours after the search ends. Failed policies that are not only archaic, but useless. Environments that have exactly zero to do with corrections and are instead built for human trafficking of captives, lending to a constant state of hopelessness and “why bother” attitudes. Staffed by people who only barely meet the way too low standards set by the VaDOC, who still can not get above staffing requirement numbers.
This is Virginia, where using state documents, it can be clearly shown that police represent a severe threat to civilians in their own homes, where judges are biased and hold investments in the prison industry, and where the prisons kill people daily.
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