Adopt an Inmate Launches Website

AUSTIN, Texas - July 6, 2015 - PRLog -- The idea for Adopt an Inmate came during an unexpected stay in a Texas county jail, when family members struggled to navigate the system in order to advocate for their loved one, and saw first-hand what all inmates face during incarceration. What began by delivering messages from inmates to their families who could not afford phone calls, grew into a larger effort to "adopt" indigent and forgotten inmates who have no support.

As a family we found it unnecessarily difficult to get answers, and it is our goal to relieve that burden from adopters, so they can get right to the business of adopting. Our website http://www.adoptaninmate.org will be a comprehensive, thorough, and accurate source of information for every jail and prison system in the U.S., as well as relevant books, articles, audio and video - every tool needed to advocate for inmates in one place.

Roughly half of the 2.2+ million people in U.S. prisons are indigent. Adopt an Inmate seeks to remind the world and those caught in the grip of the justice system that both accused and adjudicated are human, to provide relief, comfort, and hope to those facing judgement, and to help those sentenced emerge from prison whole, knowing they are part of a larger family that loves and cares for them. Ultimately, Adopt an Inmate would seek to change prison itself from an arbitrary system of cruelty and punishment to one which internally recognizes the humanity of its charges and treats them accordingly such that recidivism is rare, rather than a feature of our current system’s design.

"When people know the real stories of real people, they will recognize that our incarceration mania is a real problem." -- Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black.

About Adopt an Inmate

Adopt an Inmate is a nonprofit organization that seeks to create extended family for inmates, by providing a platform for inmates to tell their stories, and for adopters to quickly and easily access the necessary information needed to provide this much needed support.

Be an angel, adopt an inmate.