com.. Please contact FFUP if you are interested in helping. : swansol@mwt.net
A WEBSITE OF FORUM OF UNDERSTANDING PRISONS (FFUP)
listing of blogs and prisoners featured in them
NATIONAL BILL(click here to find out how)
by Mansa Lutalo Iyapo
:a blog telling how it is to be newly released in this society
by DaRen Morris
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
elligible for parole yet denied
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
and innocent
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
within- a little of
everything
listing prisoners featured
ex-prisoners
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.
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.
tells much about what we do
Latest FFUP Newsletters
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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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.