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Prisoners seeking pen pals

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisoners seeking pen pals By KRISTIN TILLOTSON, Minneapolis Star Tribune April 26, 2010 Prisoner-correspondence websites serve as eHarmonies for the incarcerated - and sometimes just friendly contact with the outside world. In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter, Matthew Esler is an old-fashioned pen pal. Over the past decade, he's corresponded via snail mail with dozens of people, mostly women, from around the world. Esler, 31, is no anti-technology Luddite. He just doesn't have much choice. Serving the tail end of a 21-year sentence for a murder committed when he was 14, he lives in Faribault's state prison, where inmates don't have access to the Internet. Esler is one of thousands of convicts trying to expand their options for communicating with the outside world through prisoner pen-pal websites...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).