Photo by Michal Czyz on Unsplash She-EO, Melissa Schmitt was interviewed by Fern Ridge Community Radio (KOCF) to talk abut Adopt an Inmate, our mission, and some of the issues that people in prison face every day. Adopt An Inmate · KOCF Interview w/Melissa Schmitt...
My name is [redacted], I am 28 years old, I am a father of three, I’m from Odessa Texas and I am currently serving a sentence that I believe I do not deserve. This is my story. On August 15, 2018, after I was picked up from a friend's house, he was taking me back to...
We get letters sometimes which break our heart. This one came in through our contact page which we assume must have been posted by a friend. It has been edited for clarity. Besides a cry for help, this is a cautionary tale. Never let the police search your vehicle or...
VENETA, Ore. - Jan. 20, 2021 - PRLog -- For almost four years, Adopt An Inmate operated a website made possible by the donations of Washington State inmates seeking to help other inmates across the United States. Today it launches a major update and revamp of its...
This letter from death row came to us through a third party. It's an interesting letter and after reading it one gets a clearer picture than the one the media represented while Brandon Daniel's case was ongoing. It shouldn't need to be said that the police officer who...
Hello, We wanted to reach out to all of our subscribers and adopters to wish you well and to talk about the impact of Sars-cov-2, also known as Covid-19. As you already are aware, our whole nation has been temporarily converted into a virtual prison. Some of us have...
Texas prisons are not cool 'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone We're setting fire to our insides for fun - Daughter - Youth Texas prisons are not cool in the summertime. The first year I spent in a Texas prison was in 2015 and I began my stay...
Mary Ann MgGivern writes in the National Catholic Reporter: [...]I was on the elevator with one of the governor's aides, who said, "Oh, yes, the governor is committed to addressing mandatory minimums." I said, "For violent crimes?" He said, "Oh, not violent crimes,...
In Finland, they've reduced homelessness by 35% because they attacked the problem radically. They tried a little bit of mercy. From the Daily Mall: “We decided to make the housing unconditional,” says Kaakinen. “To say, look, you don’t need to solve your problems...
If you are the type of person who doesn’t dwell on dreary details, you rarely consider prison unless it is to wish that an infamous cretin be sent there. Until I came to prison, I hardly thought anything of it. Bad people are stored in prisons until they achieve the...
