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PLEASE...WRITE THE INMATES!

"You know - I can take the cardboard food, I can take being locked up and treated like a dog sometimes by the COs; I can take the rain leaking through the ceiling on my head, but till you started writing to me - I was the loneliest soul in the world and that was the hardest thing of all to take. Now - the leaking ceiling isn't so bad, the cardboard food tastes a little better, and I get to see the look on the CO's face when he hands me my mail and he sees SOMEBODY out there cares about me."

NOTE: The DOC will enforce this totally unconstitutional and unnecessary ban forbidding websites like mine from putting ads soliciting penpals for prisoners onsite and force me to comply under threat of DRs and confinement for the prisoners. Therefore, I am not posting penfriend ads, but the people on this site and myself would hope that you will feel free to write anyone named. That is why we've included addresses.

Most prisoner stories on this site has the DoC number (6 digits after the name). Florida does move prisoners around A LOT so you should always double check the DOC site for the current prison and address of anyone you want to write.

Contact from the outside is many times the only thing that  stops some guards from taking illegal actions. All research says it is healthy for a prisoner's rehabilitation to stay in contact with concerned people on the outside. And prisoners who can look forward to outside contact are easier for the officers to handle. It's called a Reward System, which Florida has failed to be concerned about. So everybody benefits if a prisoner maintains contact with outside family and friends - except bad guards.

If you see a story that you want to know more about; if you want to help prevent a guard from using unnecessary and excessive force;  if you want to raise the spirits or encourage a prisoner in his recovery;  or if you just want professionalism from those paid with public money to be the keepers of people in prison, by all means, Feel Free - Adopt a Prisoner.

WRITING TO DEATH ROW

I advise you to use simple common sense
when you make your decision to write to prisoners:

1.  Don't send money you can't afford to give away. 
2.  Don't send money to a prisoner any faster than you would to any free world stranger.
3.  If you are concerned by these sorts of things, double check any needy story from a prisoner just as you would in the free world.
4.  Don't talk sex with a prisoner if you don't want to. 
5.  Rent a PO Box if you are uncomfortable with a prisoner having your address.

Unnecessary Proposal Becomes Illegal Rule!

You are much more in charge than the prisoner. 
Take your own responsibility. 
It's what is expected of a free adult citizen!

About Innocence

Statistics of Innocence in Florida

SUSPECTED CASES OF INNOCENT PEOPLE
Living In Florida Prisons

More than two and a half million Americans now live in prison. Two and a half million people whose families are being punished as if they, too, had committed a crime. About 70% of the inmates are non-violent; about a quarter of them were mentally ill when they were sent to prison; over 65% of them are offenders of the prohibition laws; anywhere from an estimated 1% to as high as 25% are innocent of their charges, and only about 3% of them are repeatedly vicious.

All, from the least to the greatest, even the innocents and the peaceful pot smokers snagged in s very unbalanced system are treated as a subhuman species who have done something unforgivable to people who demand forgiveness for themselves; ignored by people who say "inmates deserve anything they get"; and mistreated by those paid and sworn to keep them safely and rehabilitate them.

Least we forget, as we ignore what the inmate suffers, we are also ignoring what is happening to those serving as their keepers and to the hearts of society. In many ways, everyone on this side of the cell doors are becoming just as 'criminal' as those we deem less fitting than ourselves! If we do not force prison workers to be accountable under law, we are condoning lawlessness, which makes our prisons a hypocritical separation of the wheat and the chaff.

If you want to be safer on the street, make sure the system is really pursuing rehabilitation and CORRECTION. Rather prisoners are released in worse shape than they went in or not, you are the one who pays. You may as well demand your money's worth.

CONTACTS IN FLORIDA
AGENCIES AND OFFICES WHOSE JOB IT IS TO INVESTIGATE ABUSE

RESOURCES ONLINE

NOTE:

This 'inside/outside the walls' project is a gamble, one that cannot be avoided: Either those who just don't know will be appalled and help make prisons the healing place they need to be for our own public safety; or, as the errant guards warn them, these inmates will be ignored or automatically labeled liars. "Who they gonna believe?" smugly asks the errant guard: "You or Me?" If our faith in our fellowman is misplaced, the unchecked guard retaliation could be unbearable for many of them.

The changes have already started: With 2 million people being mass warehoused in United State's prisons, there's too many people comparing notes. Already very few people are still denying the problems inside are immensely real: They just aren't sure yet how to fix the mess we've ignored for so long.

I have great faith in the goodness of man and know that real healing can only come when the painful truth emerges.

Contact Kay Lee

Realizing Enlightenment and Visualizing Professionalism!