Archive for December, 2019

Please Send a Holiday Card to a Prisoner

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Anyone who knows a prisoner knows how important it is to them to receive mail, especially at this time of year. Many prisoners receive no outside support at all.

I don’t care if you send a Christmas card, a holiday card, or whatever. Neither will they.

Here is a list of prisoners who’d be delighted to get a card:

https://bobchatelle.net/please-write-to-a-prisoner

Unfortunately, New Hampshire prisoners are not allowed to receive greeting cards of any sort, picture postcards, or any typewritten or printed material. Only handwritten letters on stock paper are permitted.

-Bob Chatelle

Pushed Out and Locked in

Sunday, December 1st, 2019

“I sat in the prison medical unit across from Richard,* bound to his wheelchair, supplemental oxygen supply at the ready, almost three years to the day after he was granted compassionate release. We went over the list again. Relatives: public housing. Nursing home: too close to a school. Apartment: too much money; not wheelchair accessible. We would continue to do this for years.”

Read the article by Allison Frankel in The Yale Law Journal.

H/T Dr. Leonore Tiefer.