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Announcement: Hiatus From New Requests
IMPORTANT NOTICE We receive over 1,000 pieces of mail each month, and are currently overwhelmed with requests from inmates and their families. Everything we do is accomplished only with the help of volunteers, small donations, and money from our own pockets. As of...
BOP Implements New Correspondence Restrictions
Received via Corrlinks (the email system for BOP [Federal] inmates) today from our friend Mickey: Gosh, It's so great to be out of the Hole after 35 days! It feels super weird to me after being locked in a 12' x 8' cell for over a month with the window...
Houston Chronicle Quotes AI About Heat in Texas Prisons
Help is on the way for vulnerable Texas prison inmates suffering through summer heat By Gabrielle Banks Updated 7:00 pm, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 Relief may be in sight for hundreds of heat-sensitive inmates at the Pack Unit northwest of Houston. State officials on...
Dandy Lying
My brother lives in an old farm house in Ohio with this great front yard of plush green grass that in the heart of the season is carpeted with the most beautiful and brightest yellow dandelions youâve ever seen. I remember when my son was about 5 and he commented,...
Poetry From Prison: In a Moment by Michael Fisher
Stand Still. Each day we must strive to combat the currents we dive beneath, breathing through entropy in which our souls atrophy. Tides of compromise, competing desires through all ills repeating, please born of the iron bounds of loving debts as hounds harrying us...
The Four Agreements â Part Two of a Five Part Series
Weâre excited to offer the second in Eric Burnhamâs five-part series based on "The Four Agreements," by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. In the book, Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient...