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At launch, it allowed users to send photos and physical print-outs of digital letters to inmates, [10] it later expanded its services to include teleconferencing. [11] The organization received funding from Jack Dorsey , Eric Schmidt , Vinod Khosla , Kevin P. Ryan , Rich Barton , Devin Wenig , and Jack Smith .
Inmates using WriteAPrisoner.com only have access to postal mail. Inmates pay at least $65 per year (with additional options that cost more) to post their profile and photo, which are viewed by the public at no cost. The site encourages writing directly to inmates or sending a first message through its free e-mail forwarding service.
The 2,620-acre site was previously known as the Wayside Honor Rancho, Castaic Honor Farm, or the Wayside Jail (by which it is still sometimes known) and was nicknamed the Wayside Drunk Farm in the 1940s because of the large proportion of inmates serving time for alcohol-related offenses—when first built for prison use in 1938 it was a minimum ...
Image credits: persondude27 #2. Here in Wisconsin, there’s a volunteer organization that trains guide dogs. All guide dogs in this program are housed at a prison an trained by an inmate for a ...
Former musician Nathan Lee started a non-profit called Send Musicians to Prison that has been bringing live music to incarcerated people for 15 years.
Alina Feas is one of nearly 4,000 convicted felons who may be headed back to federal prison after spending the past year in home confinement. According to the New York Times, the Biden ...
Inmates must pay $0.05 per minute for use of this computer system, and they may print messages at a cost of $0.15 per page. [1] Sending a message to someone can cost up to $0.30. [2] As a comparison, in many U.S. federal prisons, inmates wages start at $0.12 per hour. This service is also available in some state prisons, such as those in Iowa. [3]
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