“Hunger Strike Follow Up: Sanctions,” recorded on September 28, 2026.
If there is always a response to be expected by Virginia DOC staff, it is brazen lawlessness and disregard for the safety of its captives. There is no shortage of reports in my decade of exposing the Virginia DOC’s corruption, and my hunger strike was no different. Actually, there was more than the usual bravado on this point as the entire administration of Hainesville happily put their names and signatures on paperwork that not only was, in and of itself, fraudulent, but contained admissions of criminal acts and human rights violations along with other lesser acts, all with an intent to inflict inflict physical and psychological harm. Here, we will expose these acts of cruelty that serve no purpose other than the harm of the Virginia DOC is built upon. The first harm inflicted was the use of solitary confinement. To begin with, this is a practice that has been repeatedly shown to cause only suffering while doing nothing to correct behaviors. It is as barbaric as the rest of Virginia’s history of destruction and human suffering. It is also limited by law, and that law is one that the Virginia DOC is regularly caught violating. In my case it was inflicted for eight days beyond the 14-day maximum. Now, to be fair, that is a joke compared to the months I spent in solitary at the New River Valley Regional Jail, my first six months of illegal captivity, and it is equally a joke compared to the years that way too many Virginia captives are forced to endure to this day.
In the case of my hunger strike, the Virginia DOC justified this violation of law by saying, “policy” and “special circumstances,” two of Hitler’s favorite borrows from Virginia as justifications to the “legality” of his holocaust. Next on the list was the use of 24/7 lights, which lasted for 22 days. This is not only illegal, but it is a recognized form of torture and a serious human rights violation. Any first or second year psychology student would know this. So, it is an especially heinous act, given that two psychologists from Hainesville prison also signed off on it, and that the order for such an abuse came from the chief of mental health in Richmond. This should come as no surprise, and any research into Virginia’s history and the history of its DOC will expose horrors that go far beyond anti-American or anti-human. The harm caused by 24/7 light is well documented. Doing such a thing to a person with a 40-year mental health history and a traumatic brain injury is reprehensible and should be a hangable offense.
I was also put into a dry cell. This is where the water is turned off in the cell, so you cannot brush your teeth or flush the toilet. Truly, this is what monitoring health is all about. To drink water, a necessity during 30 days without food, staff were made to bring me an eight-ounce bag of water every hour. The level of planning or abject stupidity such a policy requires is legitimately awe-inspiring in the sense that this is literally how you destroy nations and empires from within. Some cursory research into the history of human rights abuses would elucidate. They took away books, pens, and paper. Clearly, this was to create a scenario of boring me to death but I have an excellent imagination. They clearly did not expect as much — generally, comes with mental health issues. I am also of a reasonable intelligence and creativity, so quietly entertaining myself was a simple task.
This is less the point than what sort of depravity goes into the minds of those obviously dangerous people. Licenses should be suspended and harsh warnings issued. I was held incommunicado, as many of you know. No mail was allowed in or out. No phone calls. Again, this did not have the desired effect because it was anticipated. Torture and harm are the only play in their book. I had sent out mail, made phone calls, and told the important people, such as all of you, what was going on before I told the Virginia DOC; whom I only told to irritate them, which it did and will continue to do so for some time, because of the amount of material it’s given me to report on. All of which goes beyond, or ties directly into, the extensive list of wrongdoing by the Virginia DOC. Next on the list was taking away my blanket and pillow from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Because the climate control was set so low, about 64 degrees, they had to give them back at night, at least the blanket, to prevent my being too cold. I believe that this pretend act of humanity was too late by this point. Also, does such protocol, as it was too often referred to, strike anyone as ridiculously juvenile and childish? It really is the sort of silly behavior one would expect from a five-year-old, as opposed to the chief of mental health for a government institution that proclaims to be of some value to society. That the local subordinates to said chief of mental health went along with this is also telling. Honestly, I can barely keep a straight face when I say Chief of Mental Health.
Mrs. Fink can totally, totally be pictured having her food spit on when they go out to eat. I know it’s wrong, but I admit that it makes me smile in that same sort of way that I do when a bully steps in dog crap right after feeling a moment of power at the expense of others, and then it’s just gone. Their face screams dejection by the multiverse. Yeah, it’s wrong, but funny nonetheless. Finally, and along the same juvenile nonsense was denying me the right to shave. By the time they actually hit me with this sanction, my beard was no longer itchy. Besides, how absolutely foolish can you be, Virginia? If you are from Virginia, leave as soon as you are able. If you are not from Virginia, stay away. Do not bring your businesses here. And under [no] circumstances, should you bring or send your family here. If your children aren’t forced to miss school or breathe the mold in the schools, they could end up shot simply because Virginians can’t find better targets than the schools. It just isn’t worth it, folks. As for the sanctions, they speak for themselves, and they also make Governor Spamberger’s little visit to Washington D.C. a few weeks ago to speak about civil rights appear to be a scripted show because Virginia has no civil rights to speak of, or justice along with the truth, and both have been outlawed.
Once again, I’m David Annarelli, political prisoner, wrongfully convicted. You can find me at Substack.com at David Annarelli, on Instagram at david-annarelli, and Google me for tons more. Thank you very much.
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