about us
Abolitionist Mail Project was created in fall 2024 by a group of friends and comrades on both sides of the wall. AMP's mission is to connect people incarcerated in Massachusetts and people on the outside. We believe all incarceration is wrong. And we believe until everyone is free, we must form genuine relationships between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people. These relationships help break down walls and build a new world.
As pen-pals, we reach across and beyond walls, with incarcerated people offering a window into their lives under the PIC, and outside people offering support and advocacy. Shared friendship and a healthy human relationships can be transformative. In addition to these ongoing connections, people on the outside send dozens of birthday cards every month to incarcerated people, helping to show them that they are remembered. Around the winter holidays we coordinate the mailing of hundreds of winter cards. We are trying out reading groups that pair an incarcerated reader with people on the outside to read and discuss short works in many genres. Do you have ideas for how we can connect people across and beyond walls? Tell us!
There are more than 6,000 state-sentenced people in prisons in Massachusetts prisons. 8,300 people are in county jails and so-called houses of correction, with hundreds more in federal detention at FMC Devens and thousands incarcerated by ICE. In addition, thousands more do not live in a prison or jail setting but are involuntarily confined in locked psychiatric hospitals or on GPS ankle shackle in their homes. To paraphrase Fannie Lou Hamer, none of us are free until all in Massachusetts are free.
You can sign an incarcerated person up for a pen-pal with their permission using the form here.
As pen-pals, we reach across and beyond walls, with incarcerated people offering a window into their lives under the PIC, and outside people offering support and advocacy. Shared friendship and a healthy human relationships can be transformative. In addition to these ongoing connections, people on the outside send dozens of birthday cards every month to incarcerated people, helping to show them that they are remembered. Around the winter holidays we coordinate the mailing of hundreds of winter cards. We are trying out reading groups that pair an incarcerated reader with people on the outside to read and discuss short works in many genres. Do you have ideas for how we can connect people across and beyond walls? Tell us!
There are more than 6,000 state-sentenced people in prisons in Massachusetts prisons. 8,300 people are in county jails and so-called houses of correction, with hundreds more in federal detention at FMC Devens and thousands incarcerated by ICE. In addition, thousands more do not live in a prison or jail setting but are involuntarily confined in locked psychiatric hospitals or on GPS ankle shackle in their homes. To paraphrase Fannie Lou Hamer, none of us are free until all in Massachusetts are free.
You can sign an incarcerated person up for a pen-pal with their permission using the form here.
