Who WOULD write an inmate?
Well I never intended NOT to come back and respond to those that took the time to reply to my inital message.
Let's see, who WOULD? Well based on my little research I did before I started my site, ALOT! In fact one of the first sites I came across has over 40,000 unique visits per month. At $3.00 and address of net profit...YOU do the math if only 1% actually purchase only ONE address.
To be honest, yeah I actually fel for writing a few inmates just for the hell of it. I wanted to see what it was all about. I am the type of person to go all the way to solve my curiosity. I got a PO Box and went to writing. It was interesting to say the least. Plus, I have had my times when I was young where I was going to city jail every weekend for teenage mischief. LOL.
So though I am pretty sane, I make good salary a year (Paid $450 recently to upgrade my computer from a 300MHz all-in-one board to a 2.4 GHz screamin' machine, thank you) and was brought up by my family with good morals and what have you... I actually started liking one of the girls I wrote. Then I began visitng her every other weekend when I didn't have my son. Next thing you know we cared very much for each other.
I am happy to say that she was released a little while back and she and I are now happily together. Imagine that?!
1. If you feel unsafe giving your address to a convicted felon...I don't blame you...I didn't.
2. Are you so easily duped that you KNOW they will scam you if you write?
3. True email makes it easy for YOU to get a penpal, but I think a service such as mine is supposed to be helping those locked up get penpals. It kinda the whole helping others thing, maybe you've seen it happen before???
True the attorney babble was a bit of an exageration, but you caught my drift. You get what you pay for and sometimes that is 3 years of served time for something small. Not that these people did no crime, but maybe not something you would feel was all that bad if maybe someone close to you found themselves in the same position.
True MD proabably is ALOT more lenient than Texas.
Because there is already a site to write inmates in MD I guess I should give up? That would be kinda like "OH there already IS a website to get PORN on....SHEESH well then forget MY idea I better think of another type of site to make that offers something other than nudity."
I would have to agree with punishment not being as much as it should, but I almost would bet you talking about the crimes you see on TV NEWS where someone outright kills someone and gets 3 years or some football start gets probation for killing somone in a hit and run, but didn't stop cause they had cocaine all in the car (happened here in Dallas not too long ago).
BUT, I am more refferring to small crimes that didn't exactly cause some sort of major damage to someone else's person or property. We'll use my own mistakes as an example. I was 20 y/o and still alittle stupid. I stole a car stereo out of a car. Yes stupid and yes I know how it feels cause I have had it happen to me even before I did it myself. Anyways, I was in the US Army at the time and their law books say maximum sentence 12 years! For stealing a car stereo, yes. That would be an excessive sentence for what I did. BUT I am fairly educated and intelligent and I worked out a deal with my attorney and served 3 months of a 6 month sentence in a Military Correctional Facility and I went on with my life. Others have not been as lucky as I.
SO, if writing inmates isn't your thin I understand. Not everyone is as adventurous as I. No problem I understand and empathize. I agree with alot of the things you guys....um, ladies are saying. I just happen to have some other things I'd like to interject into them.
By they way, some responses have been kinda like flames about how stupid it is and such, so I know that those of you who would agree don't ever go to one of those heavily passed around sites that has dancing gerbils or some other funny or ridiculous subject matter, right? You probably also don't watch the Jerry Springer Show because it is just SO absurd. Point being I got to have a great discussion with you guys about the subject and yes I have gotten about 10 unique visits to my site just from the initial message.
Everyone is cool in my book, take care. Reply back...I know I will.
