Pen Friends Wanted
Imagine that you have to spend 23 hours of the day in a cell that is just app. 60 sq. ft. Your entire belongings fit into a few cardboard boxes and it's your only diversion getting food shoved through an opening in the door three times a day. Food often almost uneatable.
The isolation is unbearable. Death row inmates are housed in cells that were designed as isolations cells. Actually this isolation cells were meant to house inmates for disciplinary reasons for not more than three months. All study reveals that a longer isolation in such a cell causes severe mental defects. Death row inmates spend the remainder of their lives - often many years - in these cells.
Can you imagine how important contact to the outer world in such inhumane surroundings is? Pen friends bring diversion to the life of the death row inmate by their letters. They are the contact to the outer world. They show the inmate that he/she is not forgotten and not buried alive.
Would you like to write to an inmate, please fill our form "Pen Friend Request":
Pen Friend Request
Drawing Michael G., TX
