Prison Letters Project
Write a Letter
The Prison Letters Project seeks to highlight and spread awareness of claims of injustice by people who are, or have been, incarcerated and their loved ones—including claims of wrongful conviction, excessive sentences, and other wrongs in the handling of criminal cases. We hope that shining a light on individual cases may help to attract the attention of advocates, journalists, lawyers, and the general public.
About the Process
The Prison Letters Project does not provide legal representation. We can’t give legal advice about your case. Completing this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Any information you provide on this form or documents you send us—including anything that could be seen as incriminating, or in any other way unfavorable to you—is not protected from disclosure by attorney-client privilege. We welcome letters from people who have pending charges, but due to your ongoing cases we will not publish your information in the online database. Instead, we will do our best to refer you to advocates in your area that may be able to assist you.
If you give us permission to publish information you send us online, we will only use your initials to identify you. Please be aware that—in some cases—this may be enough for readers to learn your identity. Any such information and documents may be shared with third-parties or the public.
How to Send the Forms
You can send us this form at: Prison Letters Project, c/o Emily Bazelon, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
Our email address is prisonlettersproject@yale.edu.
If you are incarcerated at a facility that allows the use of JPay, you can reach us at the username prisonlettersproject@yale.edu. You can also reach us at prisonlettersproject@yale.edu on GTL and CorrLinks.
If the cost of copying or mailing material presents a hardship, let us know and we can reimburse you up to $15. Please write to us if this is the case—we will reimburse you for the amount you pay for copying and postage, or provide you the funds you need if you do not have enough.