Adopt an Inmate is partnering with LinKo to offer practical, self-paced reentry resources for work, AI, learning, and life after incarceration — including a free AI guide and low-cost job readiness and practical toolkits.
While serving a life sentence in Oregon, Dr. Eric Burnham earned his PhD and transformed decades of study, reflection, and lived experience into three books addressing addiction, trauma, emotional intelligence, and healthier relationships. As he approaches a parole hearing this September, we are proud to share the work he has created to help others heal and grow.
After more than a decade of connecting incarcerated individuals with volunteers, Adopt an Inmate is expanding its focus on educational partnerships, mentorship, and community engagement through our growing Letters From Prison: In the Classroom initiative. Learn about the next chapter of our work and how educators, students, and community partners can get involved.
Sometimes we have to step back from talking about the work in order to do the work. We’re back with updates on a North Carolina field visit, new volunteer opportunities, exciting educational partnerships, the Blueprint app, Bee-Fest, and what’s coming next at Adopt an Inmate.
Thirteen years into his sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Troy reflects on the good, the bad, and the urgent need for change — from building others up as a life coach to confronting the daily harm of an unforgiving system.
States say good time credits reward rehabilitation, but many incarcerated people never see the time they’ve earned. This post exposes how vague policies and quiet reclassifications keep people inside longer than they should be.
Matt, formerly incarcerated in New York, reflects on the power of reading, the failures of prison grievance systems, and his hope for a more restorative approach to justice.
Six quick facts about Adopt an Inmate — what we do, why we exist, and how we’re powered by people, not profit.
This series shares reflections directly from people in prison — what gives them hope, what causes harm, and what they believe...
We Have to Know the System, To Change the System We hear it all the time: "Vote! Get involved! Pay attention!" But most of us...