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Advice For Friends And Family Of Inmates Episodes

Sept. 9, 2024

Daniel Dean Morris: Incarcerated Author and Father

Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, you'll see and hear people asserting that all inmates are scum, that inmates deserve to rot and die in prison. Big Steve disagrees, reasoning that with 2.3 million incarcerated men and women in America, it's impossible to put them all into a tiny little box …

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Aug. 12, 2024

Thinking About Visiting Your Pen Pal?

Here's a fairly common scenario: you meet an amazing pen pal, you exchange letters and emails, talk on the phone, and make a genuine connection. But you want something more. You want to see them in person, hug them, hear their laugh, or even eat a meal together. It's time to think about filling …

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April 2, 2024

No Mail for You: How Mail Scanning Policies are Destroying Inmates an…

Prisons in over 15 states no longer deliver physical mail. Birthday cards, letters, and family photos now all must get scanned and uploaded to an inmate's tablet. Those without a tablet can pay for a printed color copy of the mail. The process is slow and flawed; mail often can take months to arriv…

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