Prison Adult Learning

07/05/2024

This Page is NOT defunct. Been very busy with innocence and an Assistant Warden carving up my trans friend for calling PREA.

04/17/2023

Did you know prisoners pay to see a nurse?

When we consider the relative cost of medical co-pays to incarcerated people who typically earn 14 to 62 cents per hour, it's clear they can ...

04/11/2023

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/11/17/mail-scanning/

In at least 14 states, people in state prisons are falling victim to a scan: Prisons are replacing physical mail with scanned copies, a policy ...

04/04/2023

How to make a public records Request. States vary by what they'll charge if they have to do more than a brief summary.

Tips to get access to the public records your need for your advocacy work.

03/28/2023

https://flarecord.com/stories/629873027-deputies-found-not-entitled-to-qualified-immunity-in-st-tammany-excessive-force-case

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies are appealing a recent federal court decision that found the deputies are not entitled to qualified immunity in an excessive force lawsuit filed by a Slidell resident.

03/16/2023

This organization has fliers up inside prisons in Florida

Zoom In On A F.R.E.S.H. Conversation with Denise Caffo, Society First, "Behind the Walls of Gated Communities." Society First is a 501C3, your $20 donation ...

02/24/2023

Tell me of a good or even ok prison library anywhere

A volunteer effort is under way to get books into the Los Angeles County Jail, which has no library. Research shows reading helps lower recidivism rates.

02/20/2023

FINALLY. After 6 weeks my visitation form for Wakulla Correctional institution in Florida has been approved so I could send $ for my Trans friend [Starr "married my Gay penpal of 6 years) to buy stuff. She lost 20 pounds because they don't feed you except the legal # of calories, which can be made up of mostly grits. So they need commissary food, which they mostly buy as Ramen a salty but cheap food. [You can trade a blow job for one package) Which, if you can't afford a little electric T pot they eat cold. She [Starr] finally got a razor (she's officially categorized as Trans inside) & "boots" because inside they give you horrible knock-off crocs. And soap. Inside they sq**rt a tablespoon of foul industrial green liquid soap into one of those tiny paper pill "cups."
She first had to deduct a bill for xeroxing legal forms & and the law library doesn't give any legal help even finding a form.
I've sent her the maximum # of books they can have. Which is 4! [After a Bible & Dictionary that leaves 2] I sent an infographics text on finance because the teacher [other prisoners!] Had nothing after 1980, and she's taking a finance class. The teacher thanked me on the phone.
I think I spent a solid 12 hours just trying to get the visitation form processed. Imagine how it is for those who don't bulldog this, God forbid know they're supposed to have them completed in thirty days. Without a visitation form you can't send $.
Couldn't get her new glasses yet and she needs bifocals so she finally got reading glasses. Sending large print books is not easy...had she gotten new glasses they're huge 1980s frames which distort if you need anything other than standard vision and I'm still fighting to buy ones from the crap vision Nurse!
During some shakedown someone stepped on hers, and you can't get a replacement unless a guard registers it. Oh hahaha.
So... one battle down. Next will be months...

02/15/2023

This is a great resource site for tons of other sites.

Sentencing Law and Policy blog provides Information and Commentary about Guidelines and Capital Sentencing

02/01/2023

Article on the gouging of for profit prison calls. Frankly I'm totally confused about funding calls in Florida prisons [not jails] Securus won't give me pricing up front and billed me for a call never made immediately. $20

Phone calls from this Ohio county jail cost eight times as much as calls from any Ohio state prison.