We provide an educational opportunity for prisoners to engage with world events and key political, cultural, and philosophical questions from a unique revolutionary perspective, including discussions of morality, religion, science, and the arts.
"While incarcerated, enclosed by gloomy, gray concrete walls, we received literature from the PRLF that was truly a light in the darkness.” Read the entire letter here.
"On behalf of all of us here in Corcoran SHU, Thank you P.R.L.F.” Read more here.
Note: People located anywhere can volunteer to type letters.
There are many ways you can get involved.
Transcribe scanned handwritten prisoners’ letters to accurate electronic files for PRLF to share with the world;
Share prisoners’ letters from PRLF.org with your friends and organizations you’re in, and via social media;
Help us challenge censorship by prison authorities – contact us if you’re an attorney, paralegal or law student or have legal skills;
If you or your friends are artistic, video-record a reading of a prisoner’s letter for PRLF’s YouTube channel;
Donate money. Ask your friends, family and others to donate money and be part of sending revolutionary literature to prisoners;
If you’re in the Chicago area and want to help send PRLF’s newsletters to prisoners, contact us;
If you have specific ideas about how you can help, such as social media experience, outreach and publicity, etc., contact us.
Check us out here and on our Facebook page, and get in touch!
The voices of these revolutionary-minded and other prisoners need to be heard by those in every section of society – by those who live in extremely difficult life circumstances, and are, or are not, caught up in “the life”; by those with very high levels of formal education and conditions of life, and everyone in between. Many of the letters that prisoners send to PRLF demonstrate how they’re transforming the way they see the world and their role in it in radically new ways. A significant number explicitly reject revenge and “an eye for an eye,” and seek the emancipation of all humanity. As one supporter asked, "If prisoners can change, what else can change?"
To learn more about our current volunteer opportunities, please fill out this form:
Our work is a critical resource for prisoners. If you're unable to volunteer your time and effort, but are moved to support prisoners seeing beyond the prison walls, please donate today. Every dollar you contribute is one more chance for a prisoner to connect with the life-changing ideas and analyses in the literature we send them.