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Mutual Gifts
We are so pleased to partner with Ashley Asti. Ashley creates organic custom skin and body oils to honor the skin and soul, with a commitment to ethical creation, sustainability and wellness. She is also one of our adopters. Each month, Ashley Asti donates a...
Winter 2017 Quarterly E-Newsletter
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, recommendations from both adopters and adoptees; and news from the staff. Don’t forget...
Hate Mail: End hateful prison mailroom practices
People hate us. It sounds melodramatic, but it is true nonetheless. We’re hated by each other, by people on the outside, and by people working on the inside. By ‘us,’ I mean incarcerated persons. Offenders, inmates, convicts, prisoners. And there are people who make...
Review of Houses of Healing by Robin Casarjian
Initially when I began reading this book, I thought it was going to give me all the reasons why I needed to change my thinking (as an inmate), yet offer not much in the way of breaking down how I could do it — thankfully I was wrong! Houses of Healing is a remarkable...
We Love Our Volunteers!
This month at AI we’re coordinating with many of our angel volunteers to get holiday greetings out to prisoners all around the country. Thanks to everyone who is helping in this effort, including Jen at Inmates Matter Too (and her volunteers), and many of our...
Urgent: December Fundraiser Update
Thanks to our supporters on both sides of the wall, we are less than $600 away from our goal of $3,000 for our website fundraiser! From the letter above, which included a donation of six stamped envelopes from an Arizona prisoner: “You have taken on an enormous task,...