“Everybody on death row needs someone at their side.”—Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ
A person confined to death row often spends up to 23 hours each day alone in a small cell—for years and sometimes decades.
Letters can bring a ray of hope to the darkness of death row.
For those on the outside, learning to know just one prisoner can dispel some of the misconceptions and fears about prisons and the people locked away inside of them.
Are you interested in learning more?
Listen to the “Voices of Death Row Project” podcast.
Will you write to someone on death row?
DRSP News
Reasons to oppose the death penalty
Why write to someone on death row?
Fahrenheit 451 comes to Florida death row
Prisoners, Pen Pals, and Positive Activism
Poems from Each Side of the Glass
Report from the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference
Prisons kick chaplains out of execution chamber
Updates from DRSP Director Rachel Gross and a pen pal’s poem
Report on Christmas card project
Interview with Florida death row prisoner Fahiym Abdul Ghaniy
Washington state abolishes death penalty; invitation to send holiday cards
Important information for those writing to prisoners in PA; the death penalty in the media