One of the best ways to get involved in abolitionist work is to write letters to prisoners. Survived and Punished and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners offer these helpful guides for writing letters to incarcerated people.
Letter writing provides safety as well as emotional support for those imprisoned. It also lets advocates on the outside develop lasting friendships with incarcerated people.
Looking for someone to write to? Some possibilities:
- Black and Pink matches pen pals to LGBTQ prisoners
- the Death Row Support Project offers opportunities to write to prisoners on death row
- you can become a pen pal volunteer writing to immigrants in detention with Freedom for Immigrants
- Contact us and we will try to put you in touch with someone