Comments on: Meet an Inmate http://www.fixpert.com/random/meet-an-inmate/ the bike lane of the internet, a blog about track bikes, fixed gear bicycles, comics, illustration, random acts of awesomeness! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: c http://www.fixpert.com/random/meet-an-inmate/#comment-2736 c Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:12:57 +0000 http://www.fixpert.com/random/meet-an-inmate/#comment-2736 seems fine to me - "make an inmate smile" - is a tagline that touches me. for instance - http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/ladies/esther-9831.htm esther seems nice. we knew an esther in san diego, she ran the Royberto's burrito shop that we used to play nba jam at. she had the cool shell toe adidas too. liek you said, not everyone in jail is a evil or dangerous person. and even if they are, maybe some people are looking to meet evil and dangerous people. so that seems fine too. i'd write more comments here, but i just noticed that esther will be released on 1/21/07 - so i gotta get my letter out to her real fast. what's the url of your potential pen pal? seems fine to me - “make an inmate smile” - is a tagline that touches me.

for instance -

http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/ladies/esther-9831.htm

esther seems nice. we knew an esther in san diego, she ran the Royberto’s burrito shop that we used to play nba jam at. she had the cool shell toe adidas too. liek you said, not everyone in jail is a evil or dangerous person. and even if they are, maybe some people are looking to meet evil and dangerous people. so that seems fine too.

i’d write more comments here, but i just noticed that esther will be released on 1/21/07 - so i gotta get my letter out to her real fast.

what’s the url of your potential pen pal?

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.fixpert.com/random/meet-an-inmate/#comment-2077 Tim McCormack Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:22:37 +0000 http://www.fixpert.com/random/meet-an-inmate/#comment-2077 Wow, that seems sketchy for <em>so</em> many reasons. (And, like you, I understand that people go to jail under many, diverse circumstances -- a number are even innocent!) 1) There's kind of a mismatch between the phrases "attractive" and "penpal" -- I can't quite tell if they're looking for conversational partners or something more along the lines of life partners. 2) I seem to recall hearing many stories about gullible women devoted to scary male felons (why is does it never seem to be the other way around?), claiming "He's really kind and loving!" after the guy went to jail for mass murder or something. (Okay, this is a bit exaggerated, but you get my point.) 3) I didn't catch onto the inmate-exploitation angle you brought up, but that's an important one. The folks in prison are already exploited in so many ways, mostly by the state or corporation running the facility. Then I visited the site. It seems to be your run-of-the-mill e-cottage industry site, complete with a couple of animated GIFs. (Site was made in FrontPage, to no one's surprise.) Down at the bottom I see "Meet-An-Inmate.Com is Ranked Number One", according prisonpenpaldirectory.com. Is this a little-known subculture, people who seek out inmates to become penpals? That's one thing, but the dating twist kind of throws me off. I dunno. Wow, that seems sketchy for so many reasons. (And, like you, I understand that people go to jail under many, diverse circumstances — a number are even innocent!)

1) There’s kind of a mismatch between the phrases “attractive” and “penpal” — I can’t quite tell if they’re looking for conversational partners or something more along the lines of life partners.

2) I seem to recall hearing many stories about gullible women devoted to scary male felons (why is does it never seem to be the other way around?), claiming “He’s really kind and loving!” after the guy went to jail for mass murder or something. (Okay, this is a bit exaggerated, but you get my point.)

3) I didn’t catch onto the inmate-exploitation angle you brought up, but that’s an important one. The folks in prison are already exploited in so many ways, mostly by the state or corporation running the facility.

Then I visited the site. It seems to be your run-of-the-mill e-cottage industry site, complete with a couple of animated GIFs. (Site was made in FrontPage, to no one’s surprise.) Down at the bottom I see “Meet-An-Inmate.Com is Ranked Number One”, according prisonpenpaldirectory.com. Is this a little-known subculture, people who seek out inmates to become penpals? That’s one thing, but the dating twist kind of throws me off.

I dunno.

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