Prison Letters Project

Letters Database

With the permission and participation of incarcerated people who write to us, we are logging their letters into a public database.

T.Y. writing from California

“I am an innocent man who has been on death row since my wrongful conviction in 2006.”

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J.S. writing from Ohio

“The video camera evidence and knife in the photograph[ic] evidence all disappeared and/or [were] purposely not collected. Something happened to all of the evidence in my favor. It was either altered, destroyed[,] not collected and/or purposely lost.”

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Disclaimer

Information appearing in the database reflects our understanding of letter-writers' situations and legal claims based on our correspondence with them, and may not be complete and comprehensive.

If you are interested in learning more about a particular person's case or connecting with them, please write us at prisonlettersproject@yale.edu

Connect with and support the letter-writers!

The Prison Letters Project hopes for and welcomes interest from people who want to learn more about these stories.


If you would like to be connected to a particular letter-writer for the purpose of providing representation, writing about their story, offering other support, or simply learning more about their case, please reach out to us using this form.

Alternatively, you can write to us at:
Prison Letters Project, c/o Emily Bazelon, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511.