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Letters From Prison: Not Right at All
The letter below is from a Texas prisoner. TDCJ does not pay any of their prisoners for work, so the only way they can purchase items from commissary is if someone on the outside is able to put money on their books. TDCJ provides minimal hygiene items to indigent...
Postage Campaign – Please Donate and Share
We're needing some help with postage! Since our recent listing in the PARC (Prison Activist Resource Center) Directory, the mail has just exploded and we have well over 300 on our waiting list. We are getting prisoners adopted every day, but the backlog is...
Letters From Prison: A Hard Life
I am 33 years old. I have no family but a brother who is also in prison. I have really had a hard life. I was kidnapped from my grandma by my mom, physically and sexually abused, forced to live and stay in closets, from hotel to hotel, for four months. I was tied down...
Letters From Prison: Love Cures People
Written by a recently-adopted prisoner in Texas Love cures people - both the ones who receive it, and the ones who give it - Karl Menninger If I know what love is, it's because of you - Herman Hesse I came into this place (prison) broken, bruised, feeling alone, with...
Letters From Prison: Art and Short Stories
Sketch and letter from a Florida inmate I was wrongfully incarcerated and am waiting for the documentation that proves my innocence. I had a brain aneurysm from stress, resulting in spastic paralysis, and have had 40% recovery. I've self-educated myself. I do not do...
Letters From Prison: Please Adopt Me, Someone
This is the first post in an ongoing series, "Letters From Prison." These are real letters, from real human beings. Please read and share widely, so the outside world will know the truth about what really happens inside of a prison. Brace yourself for this first one....