Spotted in today's Newsday: my letter to the editor about prison reform. While some of my words were eclipsed or altered, I'm grateful for being given the space to share the importance of treating all people as human beings and worthy of respect, support, and...
Melissa Bee
NEWS: FCC Approves Modified Phone Rate Caps to Bring Financial Relief for Prisonersâ Families
PRESS RELEASE Human Rights Defense Center For Immediate Release August 4, 2016 FCC Approves Modified Phone Rate Caps to Bring Financial Relief for Prisonersâ Families Washington, D.C. â Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted modified rate caps for...
Letters From Prison: Welfare Check Please
Here is a touching letter from an inmate in Texas who is worried about a fellow inmate he met during transit - which means he likely spent a week or less with him. #InmatesAreHuman
Update: Yvette Louisell
We blogged about Yvette last August, and are can now report that she has been approved for work-release. Des Moines Register story here, see text below. For the first time in almost 28 years, convicted murderer Yvette Louisell soon will live outside the walls of...
AI Quarterly E-Newsletter: Summer 2016
Hot off the presses, the AI Newsletter Summer 2016. This publication was created for you - family members, friends, and advocates of prisoners. In each issue you will find useful resources for and from inmates; artwork, stories, and recommendations from both adopters...
Inmate Art: Muse of the Builder
This piece is from our friend J.E. Forbes in Pennsylvania.
Calling All Angels: Stamps, please!
We are working night and day on a few projects - one of which is catching up with a significant backlog of mail. We owe several hundred replies which must go out through regular USPS mail, and that means .... we need stamps. Lots of stamps. This is an easy and...
Our loved one, their ward
Please share this story widely, this family needs answers. On February 27, 2016, I received a devastating phone call from my mom. My mom is almost 74 and was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer about a year ago.  It has been a tough road for her.  I could hear my...
AI Quarterly E-Newsletter: Spring 2016
AI Newsletter Spring 2016 Page one is shown below, click the link above for the PDF file with clickable links.
Donation: Handmade Afghan for AI
We received this handmade afghan from our friend Charles Farrar, an innocent man serving a 145-to-life sentence, based on lies told by the alleged victim (his step-daughter), who has since recanted her story (over thirteen years ago). See the full story here. Charles...