A new program to help connect inmates to those who want to encourage them, called Adopt and Inmate, is underway.
Nearly a dozen dogs have been through a unique training program that works to help shelter dogs, along with inmates at the Allen Gamble Correctional Center. In the “Pen Pals” program, dogs stay with ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Prison officials and victim advocates are warning Internet users to stay away from Web sites encouraging correspondence with prison inmates. One of the latest trends in ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The state Department of Corrections said Tuesday it will ban inmates from soliciting pen-pals over the Internet after discovering that some offenders used the relationships ...
RALEIGH, N.C. It began with an inmate pen-pal program. It blossomed into poetry. It led to a marriage. James Lewis Morgan and the former Tracy Cope are husband and wife. She, formerly of ...
A Welsh cameraman is set to come face-to-face with a death row inmate he has been corresponding with for more than two ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal court has upheld an Indiana Department of Correction policy that prohibits prisoners from advertising for pen-pals.Indiana prison inmates had filed a class action suit ...