The Portland Mercury

Female Prisoner Pen Pal of the Week!

NOTE: The Mercury is not responsible for you getting too emotionally attached to your prison pen pal. You’re an adult, and you need to start acting like one. Also—be nice! These gals are in prison, ...
WVTF

Pen pals in prison

Virginia’s Department of Corrections is the most expensive agency in the state – cost taxpayers more than $1.5 billion a year, but few people know what goes on behind prison walls. To change that, a ...
FOX5 Las Vegas

Las Vegas woman starts prison pen pal program to inspire incarcerated women

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Over the last three months, letters from dozens of women at Jean Conservation Camp have been arriving to Rachel Richardson and her group of pen pals, creating connections that ...
Independent Florida Alligator

‘A window to the outside’: 3 death row pen pals reflect on their relationships with inmates

Florida’s death row inmates spend 23 hours a day in their 6-by-9 foot cells, passing time by watching TV on prison-issued devices, reading books or magazines, studying their case files or writing ...
The Portland Mercury

Be a Female Prisoner Pen Pal!

NOTE: The Mercury is not responsible for you getting too emotionally attached to your prison pen pal. You’re an adult, and you need to start acting like one. Also—be nice! These gals are in prison, ...