You want to find an in-the-pen pal, you're on your own:
A federal court has upheld an Indiana Department of Correction policy that prohibits prisoners from advertising for pen-pals.
Indiana prison inmates had filed a class action suit against the state challenging the policy, claiming it violated their constitutional right of free speech.
Sorry, pallies. If you're in prison, I don't care a single little bit about your right of free speech.
In my time on editorial pages, there have been few categories of letters I rejected outright. Letters from prisoners seeking pen pals constitute one of those categories. More often than not, they're not really looking for friendship -- just somebody to run one of their pathetic scams on.
