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Been a while!

kirsty_worsty — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:15:55 GMT

Hey you guys!

Sorry i've not blogged for a while, i've been busy with starting a new job, university and home life (of course my man)

Things are very good between us since I visited him last year, my flights are all booked for the 26th August this year as i'm going back out again!! I'm going to try and make it more of a regular thing but try and visit at off peak times when it's cheaper (and colder!) I just can't imagine being with anyone else. We've got a long old time to wait before he gets out.....

Anyway sending my love to you all and hope to hear from you all soon!!!

Love

Kirsty

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Help To Open A Phone Account

Rickyann — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:19:05 GMT

Originally Posted by Rickyann

Hello Please can anyone help me as to how I can open a new phone account for my pen pal to be able to call me ? I have a Skype number with the area code of his location and I have been approved for him to call me and all that is now needed is for me to open an account to add funds so this can go ahead. He has told me that where he is in Phoenix Arizona that the phone provider they use there is ( Securus ) now I have looked into this over and over and the system dose not recognise his facility on this Securus site and Jpay was no help neither and I have also looked on his doc site and I am not having any luck what so ever and getting very frustrated over this as this Securus provider is who he uses for any one wanting to call him and it just wont work for me . Please can anyone help me here???

Not my actual blog

bad_girl_bex — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:57:42 GMT

This is just a link to my actual blog which can be found at:

http://writing2prisoners.blogspot.com/

Coming soon....our first completed questionnaire from one of the guys on the other side of the fence.

Bex

My first reply!

Tristan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:08:02 GMT

I got my first reply today and it's almost embarrassing how I acted. Like a little kid on christmas, seriously! :)
I'm so happy I decided to do this. To hear that you did something good for another person and to get so much back..it's an amazing feeling.
Anyway, I'm gonna write back tomorrow and I thought I should ask for some help.
I've read all the guidelines on this site and a lot in the forums but I wanna be sure I didn't miss any "rule".
So, as I understand it, these things are important:
1. Always write your inmates name and ID-number on all pages included.
2. Always write both your inmates and your own address in the letter ( in case the envelope gets lost?)
3. Don't use stickers and etc. until you know if the inmates prison allow them.

Now, is there anything else I should know or think about before I write? I plan on asking my penpal if he knows any additional rules I should follow but since this is my first real letter I wanted to ask you all before so I don't mess it up.
Please let me know! :)

is anyone else as distant as my penpal and i?

danielleroz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:41:20 GMT

I have been writing to my penpal for 1 year now, we have shared all of our secrets with eachother and we are so alike. Our feelings for eachother are gradually growing more and more with each letter we receive. His release year is 2017 (the year I graduate from university). We would love to be together in the near future when he is released. but the problem is I live in Australia and he is in Texas (that's 8998 miles apart). What are peoples opinions on this? I also converse with his mother via email, and she told me that he always talks about me. My penpal is so down to earth, with a heart of gold, I really believe he is a male version of me! lol, but I would like to know peoples opinions on this. Thanks :)

Corresponding with death row inmates

locuscentric — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:29:56 GMT

Originally Posted by locuscentric

I just met with an inmate on Death Row. As a PsyD clinical psychology student, and religious/spiritual advisor, I am able to get into the prisons through the clergy, in my case Jewish Rabbinical organizations such as what is known as Chabad (pronounced as Habaad). The young and beautiful boy I met found G-d while on death row and was a great source of inspiration. I am not sure if he was Jewish, but he asked to see a Jewish Orthodox Rabbi. Although I am not a Rabbi, it so happened he was amongst the group I was to get to see. He was extremely inspired and without a doubt, inspiring. His crime was hideous, however, it did not match the warm and electric quality of his new found religious enthusiasm. We cannot judge these poor souls. They have already been judged. We as humanity should do our job to love one another in order to spread only love, and allow G-d to do whatever it is His job is. Again, we are not born to judge, but to listen, to heal, to share, and to learn. Life is hard. The world sometimes seems to be mostly a dark and lonely place for many, many people. We will never know why they chose to do the terrible things they did. But we can only help them, now that they have been brought out of their morbid and complex darkness into the light where they may get to know themselves, and have a chance at redeeming at least some part of their goodly and G-dly soul. Everyone in this forum should be proud at helping those who cannot help themselves....carry the torch on and further into every corner of the darkness, until it is no more....~ Sha-Ron K.

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel resulted in a 40 year sentence!

Ms.M — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:14:25 GMT

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel...

Chad Marks - The Case # 12-3788 Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

I think this is a case that might interest many readers and people on legal blogs.
This is a case involving Plea Bargain, Lafler v. Cooper issues, a District Judge changing the facts and making decisions not based on the record.
In a nut shell Chad M. claims that he is serving a fourty year sentence based on his attorneys failure to relay to the government that he instructed his attorney to accept an offer by the Governement that could have resulted in a ten year sentence.
If you think in Lafler v. Cooper the attorney failed his client you need to read the brief filed with the Second Circuit on January 27, 2013 by attorney Jillian S. Harrington in the case of United States v. Marks case # 12-3788. The most shocking thing in that case is District Court Judge Larimers total disregard for the facts in the record that support the fact that his case is a text book example of the ineffective assistance in plea bargains that the Supreme Court ruled on in Lafler and Frye. He was denied any relief based on the Courts disregard for the facts that actually existed in the record. It is a sad day for a Judicial System that holds a title of being the most fair system in the world when we send a 24 year old to prison for 40 years when he instructed his attorney to accept a plea offer that could have resulted in a 10 year sentence, and that as a result of that attorneys failure to do so he ended up with a 40 year prison sentence.
The other thing that is mind boggling and shocking is that in his case the Government felt that a possible 10 year sentence was sufficient punishment for the crime to which he was charged, yet once he exercised his right to trial and was convicted the Government then argued that the crimes to which he was charged and convicted of should earn him a life sentence. When do we fix these things from happening. When does the Government step in and say hey this guy was wronged? This can not always be about winning for federal prosecutors at some point are judicial system has to be about fundamental fairness. This is the Governments way winning at all costs, look at what is happening in North Carolina with the Simmons case. The government did not want to release people they knew were innocent until Brad Heath from the USA TODAY reported on the Governments position of holding people who were innocent. Read the Brief in the Marks case.
I'm hoping to bring some national attention to this case in hopes the Department of Justice will look into the facts of what happened. If you are interested in any way, or if you want to know more about the case please contact me.
Read more on my website

Sending used books to federal prison

lanoo — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:01:33 GMT

Originally Posted by Aurora Borealis

My pp is USP Lewisburg and I found some discussion that used books get rejected in there. So probably that's it. :(

New Member :)

lysslovezzdj — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:17:58 GMT

Hey guys iam new to this website.. My boyfriend and i have been together for 10 months now.. Hes at Alden.. iMiss him more than anything and ill do anything for this kid.. Ive known him for so long and were still young so after this obstacle is over with is when our lives will begin.. Unfortunately he'll probably be incarcerated for our 1 year anniversary :( but imade a promise to him that no matter iam going to be here and that is a promise iwill keep. ilove yu bae so much.. they cant keep the king forever <3 052812

Day 1

Alyssa Vives — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:07:59 GMT

Today is the first day of many. Long sleepless nights ugh i dnt miss it at all. But it just goes to show ya how much yull sacrifice for that one person yu love.. Iam new to this whole blogging thing but ive noticed how crazyy iam going without my boyfriend.. which means i wanna hear and talk to ppl in the same situation as iam in.. hopefully this website will keep me sane while hes gone :'(: :uhh:

ilove yu drjv <3

New Member

Lgomez05 — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:52:46 GMT

Hi Everyone Im New Member of This site. My husband to Be is Housed at Corcoran SHU. This is his last year but we have been experiencing mail delays its so crazy ! He thinks I'm not sending him letters but they are there and till this day he is still and barley getting my letters from last year. Anyone have the same experiences

I've been debating this for a while... HELP

Rafiki — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:27:13 GMT

Hi! :)

So, basically, I'm wondering if it's safe to write to a death row inmate while using your own address? I live in Canada, and the cost of a PO Box is out of my range, given I am a university student. I guess I'm just worried that either the person I write will get out, or my address will be leaked, and I could be possibly put into danger. I'm probably just being paranoid.

Basically, my question is: is it OK to use my own address to write to a DR inmate, given I live in Canada.

Thanks :)

HELP WITH VIOLATION CODES PLEASE!!

LAURIE1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:31:32 GMT

:dunno:

I have found that my penpal has these various offences for his 15 years inside. Can someone please tell me what exactly they mean. much appreciated....

TRf CONT SUB
2ND DEGREE
1ST OFFENCE - DRUG UNSPECIFIED

HOW TO FIND OUT MY PENPALS CRIMINAL HISTORY

LAURIE1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:56:55 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am in the UK and writing to a lovely prisoner. He is a little vague about why he is in prison, so i would like to find out myself. He is in prison in Mississippi, Fed prison. Are there any sites that i can get this info from that is free.

Also ive never written like this to a prisoner before, and his letters are pages and pages long, assuring me he,s not interested in anyone else except me, plus he calls me - overseas. Do you think he is genuine or just a bull s***ter? Thanks ladies :yup:

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

longhair — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:18:45 GMT

Hi all,can anyone help me,please!
I have been trying for ages to get on to the Texas prison talk show on Friday's to call in and send a request to my love.So far no such luck,I found the website but can't even find a link to e-mail my message.My love listens every Friday so I wanted to surprise him.Anyone knows the e-mail address?I'm from the UK,I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks all,have a bless day.