Coming up with encouraging words for someone in jail can be challenging, especially if you're not sure where to begin or it's your first time sending a letter to an inmate. Sometimes, talking with your loved one first is a good step, too. Keep in mind that just by you sending a letter means a lot because just hearing your name at mail call will definitely put a smile on your inmate. Even if ... Continue Reading
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Pennsylvania DOC will allow arts and crafts when children visit parents
Pennsylvania’s state prisons will allow incarcerated parents and their children to do arts and crafts in visiting rooms to make children more comfortable with the experience, Department of Corrections officials said Monday. To continue reading click here ... Continue Reading
Golf helps exonerate wrongly convicted artist
Valentino Dixon’s introduction to golf came when the warden dropped by his 6-by-10 cell at Attica Correctional Facility in New York with a photo of the iconic 12th hole at Augusta National and a simple request. Could Dixon draw the hole with his colored pencils? The warden knew Dixon had the talent. He certainly had the time. To continue reading click here ... Continue Reading
Pennsylvania inmates are getting a new way to receive photo
Pennsylvania's prison system is updating its mail policy--the latest in a long string of security changes. Starting this week, people incarcerated in state prisons can receive photo books--the kind that can be designed and ordered online. They have to be soft-bound and hold 25 pages or fewer, and must be sent to prisons directly from a third-party manufacturer. to read more click here ... Continue Reading
How to Send Your Federal Inmate Emails via Corrlinks
Part 1: About CorrLinks CorrLinks is a privately owned company established through a relationship between a Corrections Agency and ATG, an email-based system that allows inmates who are unfortunately incarcerated in prison to communicate with their friends and families. The company operates the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TRULINCS) which allows friends and families to use the ... Continue Reading
Former inmate, now UMPI student highlights benefits of second chances
Shyquinn Dix is wrapping up his sophomore year of college studies and aiming to prove a lot of people right about the value of second chances and alternatives to incarceration. Dix, a social work major and a point guard on the University of Maine Presque Isle’s basketball team, was featured recently in a CBS TV 60 Minutes episode that highlighted a new Connecticut prison ... Continue Reading
Conditions in Alabama men’s prisons violate Constitution
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama on Wednesday concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Clcik here to continue reading ... Continue Reading
Washington state prisons ban used book donations
A Seattle non-profit group that provides free used books to Washington prisoners said it was recently caught off guard by an abrupt decision to ban those books from getting to prisoners. For decades, the organization has been sending used novels, non-fiction volumes, magazines, and their most-requested books, dictionaries, to inmates across the country. To read more click here ... Continue Reading
Prosecutors move to clear 54,000 marijuana convictions in California
After recreational marijuana was legalized in California, prosecutors in Los Angeles County expected a “tsunami” of petitions from people looking to clear their old criminal records. But the process turned out to be cumbersome and difficult to navigate, so most people didn’t even try. “Frankly, very few people took the legal action required to clear their records,” L.A. County Dist. Atty. ... Continue Reading
