| Email US swansol@mwt.net | Lawyers needed: Our most urgent needs is for two cases whose fundamentals can be read by following this link.(click on this square) URL is daytoday advocacy.blogspot. com.. Please contact FFUP if you are interested in helping. : swansol@mwt.net |
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| HUMAN FACE OF PRISONS A WEBSITE OF FORUM OF UNDERSTANDING PRISONS (FFUP) |
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| New: Contents Page listing of blogs and prisoners featured in them |
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| LINK PAGE : blogs and webs of others in the struggle |
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| STEP ONE: PLEASE SUPPORT second chance for juvenile offenders NATIONAL BILL(click here to find out how) |
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| COMING SOON: LOST? a site map | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Intro to C.F.A.R.M. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| beautiful Prisoner donated thankyou gifts are available for Your donations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PHOTOS, STORIES, ART OF PRISONERS ON EACH PAGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vanguards of Justice, Activist blog by Mansa Lutalo Iyapo |
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| Reentry to Society :a blog telling how it is to be newly released in this society |
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| juveniles waived into adult court | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| STUDY GUIDE FOR URBAN STUDENTS by DaRen Morris |
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| NEW: C-ommunity F-orgiveness A-nd R-econciliation M-ovement STEP ONE: RELEASE THOSE PRISONERS NO LONGER DANGEROUS: why pay 20 to 40 thousand per prisoner per year if they are ready to be good citizens? click here to find out more |
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| old Law Prisoners elligible for parole yet denied |
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| PENPAL PROJECT Please note that ALL the prisoners on our blogs and web are hungry for outside contact. If you read an essay or story by a prisoner, enjoy a work of art or poem, feel free to contact the prisoner creator. Email swansol@mwt.net |
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| SEGHELL segregation and the mentally ill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| wrongly convicted and innocent |
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| Three Penpal Blogs 1)Most Needing of nurturing, easy to write. 2)Latest penpal blog- 3)WHERE WE BEGAN, over 400 prisoners ask for friends ( email us to check for current addresses- this blog is hard to keep up) Many Blogs discuss issues ISSUES discussed: click below- 1.WAR ON THE POOR 2.enfranchise all 3.Racism Wisconsin Style 4).alternatives to mass incarceration plus great national study: UNLOCKING AMERICA- our summary with link to pdf file |
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| Voices from within- a little of everything |
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| contents page listing prisoners featured |
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| VOTING FOR ex-prisoners |
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| New: Mentally ill in prison reach out in response to many letters from mentally ill prisoners we started a blog just for them- And we invite you to write a nurturing note to one of them - for many, their situation is truly horrific and you can tell them they are not abandoned. |
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| To contact a prisoner: 1) write him or her directly, using address on blog or web. You can use our address for your return address if you choose. If you want to use our addressfor your return address,YOU MUST give us your name and complete address so we can forward prisoners mail to you. 2)Email FFUP , give your name address and contact info and we will contact prisoners and get back to you. email: swansol@mwt.net Prisoners do not have email or computers. Note: FFUP no longer has a Post Office Box> email swansol@mwt.net for address. |
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| 2009 (failed)fellowship application by Founder tells much about what we do Latest FFUP Newsletters |
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| Artists on this page and their links: Background "Arising" by Darren Morris above:: Outside recreation by Tommy Silverstein : Artist in perpetual solitary ; three blogs: one with visitor book: ; art work; bid for general population, yoga intro; At left: Tony Merriweather |
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| DONATE using paypal: contact: FFUP by email: swansol@mwt.net Thankyou gifts of donated prisoner art and crafts are available for your donation All money donations go directly to prisoners or to projects that directly help them. We have no paid staff. Donations are tax deductible. We also offer thank you gifts for your donations is the form of donated prisoner arts and crafts. See our web: www.prisonforum.org Where your donations are used We are one of the few organizations that write and advocates for prisoners. It is lonely work and there is little outside support. Here is where you donated money will go: NEW) "Kids to parents in prisons" is in planning stages. Chaperones needed. So are donations are needed and we will be writing a grant. 1) Stamps, postage. FFUP postage- for letters and documents for and to prisoners is a main FFUP expense . We also buy embossed enveopes for prisoners at a whopping DOC rate 62cents apiece. 2) release clothes, although we buy from thrift shops , mailing and buying is a big expense 3) hygiene and personal health supplies like washclothes, towels and deodorant for prisoners from canteen 4) Books, especially to help those in segregation without tv or radio endure. The WI DOC Does not allow used books into the system even from Books to Prisons programs. 5) Books and materials, postage, for mentoring program This is a prisoner tot prisoner program where reading , writing , math, and other subjects are tutored. 6) typewriter supplies, paper 7) We have bought typewriters for prisoners for whom writing is a way to keep sane. We also buy art supplies when we can. Time donations to FFUP needed: Web help, brainstorming, letter writing; You name it. |
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| contact us: FFUP c/o 29631 wild rose drive; blue river, wi 53518; swansol@mwt.net; Forum for understanding prisons (FFUP) is a 501c3 non profit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||