These ads are primarily from prisoners. Please take the time to select an ad (or more than one) and write to a prisoner. Make sure to use the address exactly as given here, including ID number, or mail will not get through.
This is intended as a page for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer prisoners, but not all people with ads here may identify as such, and no assumptions are to be made.
Although
some people have apprehensions about doing so, I have written to
prisoners for years and have never had any problems; rather, I have
had very rewarding correspondences. -- Larry-bob.
Scroll to the bottom or click for additional prisoner resources.
Black and Pink is a website for queers supporting queer folks in prison. It includes a penpal section as a blog and other resources.
Friends4Lifers is totally free to both prisoners and penpals to use, and features prisoners from all over the world. The website's address is http://www.friends4lifers.com
R.F.D. magazine has a "Prison Pages" section where they
print writing by prisoners. They need writing and art.
You can order R.F.D.
by sending
$7.75 to RFD, Box 68, Liberty TN 37095
There is a special subscription rate for prisoners of $10 per year.
Penpal ads of 30 words or less can be submitted to
RFD Brothers Behind Bars, Box 68, Liberty TN 37095 for one time only printing.
Non-prisoners can request a copy of the pen pal listing (which is not published
in full in the magazine itself.)
California Prison Focus publishes a newsletter. They have a website at www.prisons.org. Subscriptions are $20 a year general, $5 a year for prisoners, free to California SHU prisoners. Send $1 or equivalent in stamps for sample copy. Prison Focus, 2940 16th St., Room 100, San Francisco, CA 94103.
There's a listserve now for
folks in existing or in-formation QUISP (Queers United
In Support of Prisoners) chapters around the
continent/planet to network/exchange ideas/info.
QUISP-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Prison Activist Resource Center is a good source for general progressive and radical information on prisons.