letters from prison Archives

New Year’s Eve Prison Party!

At WSRU (my gated community), we get one day out of the year to turn up -- on New Year's Eve. Unlike the free world, though, our...

So many people who become incarcerated have no idea that just because we are behind the fences doesn't mean that we have no...

Inmate 1-2-6-6-4-1-7-5 — that's my other "name." The name I'm forced to answer to on a regular basis lest I be found in...

by Melissa Schmitt | Sep 30, 2017 | From the Inside | 0 Comments

Support for people who have been convicted of a crime is not a popular cause - but only because we're not looking at it from the...

I'm still feeling a little down about last week's execution. They killed Mark Asay on the 24th. I had honestly expected him to...

by Rick Fisk | Sep 6, 2017 | Inmate Contributors | 0 Comments

It took several agonizing months of listening to cellmate's stories before I realized that my innocence didn't matter. At...

Do murderers cry? No one has ever asked me. I became one twenty years ago through denial. Sixteen might seem too young to have...

Shake down Go ahead and take it from me Shake down In the middle of the night Shake down I’m sleeping here can’t you see...

"How am I racist? I’m Black!” Racism is something I never gave much thought to for most of my life, I just didn’t ascribe to the...

Some of you may have already seen this in our Spring 2017 Quarterly E-Newsletter - but it deserves it's own post, and we want to...