I recently had a conference call with Emmy Award-winning film maker Jonathan Stack and some of his colleagues. While we're still in talks about how we could work together, I was able to secure a free DVD out of the conversation His documentary titled "The Farm: 10 Down" is a revisit inside the lives of inmates in Angola prison located in Louisiana. A previous documentary, "The Farm: Angola, USA" was made ten years earlier with the same inmates. Angola is a unique prison in...

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Thank you to everyone who wrote in about resume section bugs, suggestions and so on. We're working on finishing that section up now, and we'll be sure to mark these types of section as beta in the future when we're redoing or starting them.

The resume section for inmates is completely free, and we have already had some moderate success with it. Hopefully the improvements will get more people using it. We're getting a lot more soon to be released inmates than we are employers at the...

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A busy blogger is an oxymoron, unless of course, you're getting paid to blog. I started this blog with every intention of keeping you guys better informed as to what we have going on. I will try to do better.

As many of you know, we have recently filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections from barring inmates from using our website (and ones like it) to seek pen-pals, legal aid and employment. A date for court has not yet been set, but I will keep you guys posted....

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We are proud to announce a new social networking tool, which allows soon-to-be-released inmates to seek employment through WriteAPrisoner.com. It's called Back to Work, and it is a résumé service for inmates. There is no charge to list inmates or respond to them. It is 100% paid for by WriteAPrisoner.com. If you know an inmate in the United States being released within the year who needs work, please stop by: www.writeaprisoner.com/back-to-work and post a free résumé for them.

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I just received an email about a story that came out yesterday in the UK. I don't even remember giving this interview, though I'm sure they didn't make it up: http://www.loughboroughecho.net/view...3871-21069562/

This whole thing with the press has grown very tiresome. Richard Ramirez? C'mon. Yes, there is a very small portion of people who seek out inmates of notoriety for romance. We don't know those people, and they don't know...

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