At least 12,000,000 people in America have one or more loved ones who're imprisoned. At least a quarter million people in Pennsylvania, (2 in every 100 citizens) have family or friend in prison and almost everyone knows someone who's a prisoner. Imprisonment is Pennsylvania's only growing industry. Almost all prisoners have someone to call family. Typically, when a person first goes to prison, he or she may get an occasional letter and, perhaps a few visits. Sadly, after a year, two years, tops, the prisoner is pretty much abandoned. It's very rare, indeed for a prisoner to get many visits after she/he has been in prison for any length of time. Family contact by letter, phone and visits is very important to prisoners. It gives them hope and something to look forward to. We urge the families of all prisoners to visit whenever you can. Over the past decade the rabid conservatives have made prison life progressively more tragic and difficult both for prisoners and for their loved ones. Conservatives are haters and destroyers. The present repressive prison administration is openly hostile to prisoners' families. They want to exploit the families, gouge money from them, deprive them of basic rights and humiliate them. We strongly support and urge the adoption of a liberal, family- preserving conjugal visiting policy. Prisoners and their spouses need the same things that all normal married persons need. To survive, marriage needs intimacy. Conservatives lust only for money and domination. In this department are gathered a few articles helpful to prisoners' families, about keeping in touch and about visiting the prisons. Family and Visiting Menu Prisoners' Families Locations of All Pennsylvania State Prisoners Locations of Pennsylvania State Prisons With Maps Locations of Pennsylvania County Jails Family Support Resources Volunteers Wanted: University Study of the Drug "Scanner" Government Money May Be Available to Prisoners A Normal Marital Sexual Life Is Essential 3 of Every 100 Persons You Know are Prisoners Visiting Prisoners Healthy Families Need Conjugal Visiting Turn Loose the Hounds! Visitor Assaulted by Prison Dog Scientific Study Proved the Prison Drug "Ion Scanner" Is Unreliable Caution! The Water Can Give You False Drug Positives A 30 Mile Bicycle Ride Just to Visit a Prisoner Prison Has New Racket to Discourage Visits and Cheat Visitors A Visit to Death Row Hounds Hound Prison Visitors Intrusive Searching of Prison Visitors Visitor Was Sexually Assaulted by a Prison Guard Camp Hill Prison Visitor Harassed A Caution to Woman Visiting Frackville Prison Leering Smithfield Prison Guard Intruded Into Visits What Happened When a Visitor Bared Her Breasts Trouble With a Camp Hill Prison Visiting Sergeant My Visit to"Frackville Prison on the Seventh Car Search: Bullying Administration, Bullying Guards Avoiding False Positives on the Drug "Scanner" Help Us Fight the Defective Drug "Scanner" The Drug Scanning Gadget in Federal Prison Bogus Drug "Scanner" Discourages Legitimate Visits An Official Alibi Excusing the Dope Sniffer Prison Drug Smuggling the Real Story The Horny Suit: Extremism In Prison Fashion Comminicating With Prisoners Reducing the Huge Burden of Your Prison Phone Calls Prison Email Racket Gouges the Public T-Netix Prison Phone Racket Disconnects Calls for Their Profit So Verizon Won't Refund Your Money Lazy Clerk Flushed Your Mail Mail Rules Infringe Free Speech Naked Pictures Excite the Prison Administration Letters and Attractive Mail Helps Prisoners' Morale Why We Shouldn't Use the Breast Cancer Postage Stamp Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "An ugly baby is a very nasty object and the prettiest is frightful when undressed" Queen Victoria (1819-1901) You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the Main Menu. GO to our site's Search Engine Send us Your Comments or Input.