False Charges and Manufacturing Crimes: A Virginia Model. Today is December 30, 2025. I have previously reported about the Virginia Department of Corrections staff issuing false charges, most often as a form of retaliation. It is just one of the myriad abuses allowed, unchecked and encouraged. And [while] the Virginia DOC scrambles to manufacture any sort of positive image, it continues to fail at its goals and purposes. As a means of manufacturing that cover, a positive image as well as giving the illusion of controlling the flow of drugs through its staff mules, the Virginia DOC has, for several months now, waged a campaign against legal over the counter drugs such as Tylenol, Zyrtec and the like; another bait and switch routine born of failure and desperation, costing 1.5 billion tax dollars per year.
The Virginia DOC is dangerously overcrowded. The Virginia DOC has lied to the public claiming that it is understaffed. Likewise, as illicit drugs easily find their way through the gates and staff pockets, false charges such as 86.1-122a, “possession of unauthorized or unprescribed drugs,” help to pad the numbers, especially when drugs sold over the counter are strangely treated as if they require a prescription. They do not, but the Virginia DOC make up their own rules, the majority of which are widely illegitimate, and moreover, prove that the Virginia DOC is not about justice or restoration or any sort of truth. Every supermarket and even gas station convenience store sells Tylenol and other similar pain relief, non narcotic and non addictive. A 10 year old child could pick these up with little question. The Virginia DOC, superseding the FDA and other far more knowledgeable institutions, has decided on its own to take such bizarre steps.
There is no justification for such nonsense, and no doubt that were the Virginia DOC to be asked, they would give some lame, provably false statements such as the safety and security of our blah, blah, blah, where safety clearly does not exist and “security” has become the cheap euphemism shield that they hide behind. Perhaps the Virginia DOC needs a good old fashioned data leak. $1.5 billion annually, 27% of the entire state budget, so that your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers can be harassed and targeted over Tylenol. This charge is nothing right, and can really make life difficult for the victim. Yet again, we see the Virginia DOC is not keeping Virginians safe. In fact, the Virginia DOC and a majority of its staff represent real and immediate threats to Virginians across the state, not only through illegal activities such as these, that I report regularly, but through the enormous base of resources, most of which never make it to the overpopulated prisons captive populations.
The better majority of Virginia citizens know the Virginia DOC is a serious problem and a threat. They know it serves no legitimate purpose beyond a cover for corruption, and they know exactly how it needs to be dealt with. That includes more than just a few politicians who seem to lack the courage to do what must be done. Manufacturing criminals over Tylenol and other legal non prescription drugs is not on the to do list. My name is David Annarelli. davidannarelli.wordpress.com. Contributing writer at prisonjournalism.org and you can check me out by googling my name. Thank you very much. Happy holidays.
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