Prison Inmates Seeking Penpals

Inmate Penpals want to Reconnect with Society

Satisfying an inmate’s need to reconnect with friendsfamilyand society at large plays a huge role in their rehabilitation. Responding to an inmate penpal request helps lift a prisoner’s spirit and improve their overall mindset. Browse the inmate penpal profiles and see if you can help make someone’s day in prison a bit more bearable.

Prisons are not country clubs and the average prison does not serve simply as a vacation spot for criminals. In factlife inside is difficult and dangerous. Prison inmates’ isolation from society might make us sleep better at nightbut the truth is that our justice system and sentencing laws need major reform. The First Step Act of 2018 is the most significant criminal justice reform legislation in years. The new legislation aims to ease very punitive prison sentences at the federal levelbut it only affects the federal inmates which is a small but significant fraction of the US jail and prison population of over two million.

Your Letter can Encourage an Inmate

Being a penpal to someone in prison can change perspectives and ease suffering. Many prison inmates never used a smartphonetabletor computer yet today’s digital society cannot function without them. Most prisoners will be released into a foreign digital worlda world that has changed by leaps and bounds in the years they spent ‘inside’and the prison system does little to prepare them for that. Would you help a prison penpal understand the new world we live in?

Life without friendsin society at largecan be lonely but in prison it can be unbearable. You can bring some dignity to an inmate’s life behind bars when they hear their name at “mail call”. A letterbe it from familyfriendsor new penpalsreinforces inmate’s connection with the outside world and restores their sense of self-worth.

He who opens a school doorcloses a prison. – Victor Hugo

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