The Massachusetts Department of Corrections significantly restricts incarcerated people's access to the mail, photocopying all incoming mail and discarding originals. The stated reason is to keep drugs from entering prisons, but we know:

Guards bring drugs into prisons

Not letters

Not books

Not drawings

Not photos

Not cards

Guards bring drugs into prison and incarcerated people suffer.

All proceeds will go to Abolitionist Mail Project. AMP forms genuine human connection across prison walls through pen-pal friendships. The relationships we form are part of ending the PIC: Prison is intentionally isolating and we hear daily from people asking for a pen-pal. Being a pen-pal allows people who have never been touched by incarceration to see how the system really functions by supporting and becoming friends with someone living it. And anyone who has already been touched by incarceration knows the importance of outside connections for safety and literal sanity.