Welcome to WriteAPrisoner.com! We are an organization whose primary goal is to help inmates receive letters from pen pals. Inmates have been turning to us in the tens of thousands since the year 2000 to find friendship. We post their personal profiles, photos and contact information on WriteAPrisoner.com. You, the viewer, can then select which prisoners you would like to correspond with. You will find a broad range of prison pen pals on WriteAPrisoner.com. We host profiles for inmates on death row, in maximum-security prisons, county jails, international prisons and more.

People from all walks of life choose to correspond with prison pen pals. We have former judges, men and women in the U.S. military who are stationed overseas, attorneys, pen pals of every religious affiliation, many estranged family members using the site to get back in contact with family members in prison, people from every country, and a very broad and diverse range of people in general who have chosen to write to a prisoner. Pen pals even have the option of emailing their first message along with a photo to the men and women prisoners featured on WriteAPrisoner.com. We then print and send these emails twice monthly to the prison pen pals. We also host profiles for inmates who are simply looking for legal help with their case. Breakthroughs in science and technology have made it possible for innocent people to be freed from prison, but first someone must take an interest in their cases. The legal profiles posted on our site describe the unique circumstances surrounding each case. Legal profiles appeal to attorneys, law students and legal experts in general.

While the vast majority of our time is spent helping inmates find new friends via our prison pen pal profiles, we provide many other resources geared toward helping inmates, their families, and the Departments of Corrections. We provide a forum where people just like you post and respond to current prison-related topics. We created a Books Behind Bars program, which helps under-funded prisons receive much needed educational materials. We provide a comprehensive Prison Resource Directory with links to many helpful organizations. You can visit our Prison Videos section to see news and documentaries on prison life. Our Back to Work section allows family, friends and Departments of Corrections officials an outlet to post inmate résumés free of charge. We provide printable games and resources that can be tailored around an individual inmate’s needs or interests. WriteAPrisoner.com also donates a portion of its proceeds from the prisoner pen pal profiles to our latest endeavor, the Children Impacted by Crime Scholarship Funds. Because the inmates pay for their profiles to be posted on our site, they are indirectly contributing to these worthy causes. Our programs do not cost taxpayers one cent. In fact, by reducing recidivism, we can reduce our need to build more costly prisons. Now there’s a cause worth supporting!

You will find that WriteAPrisoner.com has become the catalyst on the Internet for all prison-related issues. We’re dedicated to crossing party lines to help bring forth legislation and change that will help educate, train, reform and ultimately reduce our inmate population. With the help of the thousands of people who visit this site daily – people like you – we have seen many prisoners turn their lives around.

We understand that the nature of this website may seem strange to some. We are not disregarding the fact that people are sent to prison as a form of punishment for the crimes that they committed. That being said, they are also sent there for correction and rehabilitation. Approximately 90 percent of them will be released someday. We help provide a means for those wanting to change in order to be prepared for their ultimate release. We at WriteAPrisoner.com feel that we have an opportunity, even an obligation, to help facilitate positive change in the prison system today. You have shown us this is possible, through letter-writing campaigns, voting, and other advocacy efforts.

Almost every inmate in prison today will be returning to society at some point. If you will invest some of your time and compassion, together we can help insure that not only will many of them return to us as productive members of society, but they will not return to the prison system again and again and again, as has become the trend in recent years. Together we will reduce recidivism.