About Email a Detainee

Email a Detainee has the following goals.

• To help friends and family members communicate more easily and frequently with detainees
• To help to make life more bearable for detainees and reduce self-harm and suicide through increased communication
• To help detainees prepare for life after their release through partnerships with the employment agency, social services, housing associations and more

Communication is a major factor in prison life and the lack of it can have horrendous consequences. Email a Detainee offers a quick and efficient alternative method of communication between families, friends and anyone else who has an interest in the welfare of prisoners meaning prisoners can receive more frequent and varied communication.

There are currently 18 million users of the internet and this figure is growing at an alarming rate - isn't it about time the information revolution was used to transform prison