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Oregon Voters: Congressman Peter DeFazio on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
In response to a letter we sent to Congressman DeFazio in Oregon, we received the following: Dear Ms. Brown: Thank you for contacting me about mandatory minimum sentencing. We are in complete agreement on this issue. You will be pleased to know that I have...
Update: Website Fundraiser – 7 days left
Inmate Fundraiser Update: We have seven days to make a payment of $750.00 to our dream web-design team. Prisoners, whose average earnings are $35 a month, have donated $350 in a single week. After we unexpectedly lost funding for our new website, inmates rallied to...
Adopt an Inmate Needs Your Help
There’s good news and bad news … Many of you are aware of our website re-design which is underway. We were lucky enough to find a talented design team that is both excited about the project, and supportive of our cause – so much so that they have adopted an inmate. On...
Fall 2016 Quarterly E-Newsletter
Click on the image to open the PDF. Enter your email in the sidebar to the right and receive each new issue in your email. This publication was created for you – family members, friends, and advocates of prisoners. In each issue you will find useful resources for and...
Review of Night by Elie Wiesel
It's not very often I can say that I'm sorry I missed the contemporaneous contributions to humanity by any particular human being. The recent passing of Elie Wiesel has left me feeling that loss. The vivid portrayal of Mr. Wiesel's Second World War atrocities were...
Review of Mr. Smith Goes to Prison by Senator Jeff Smith
What a book! This indepth, candid memoir depicts a prominent man's epic fall from being a young hot shot politician with a sky's-the-limit career staring him in the face to a convicted felon serving hard time in a federal...