Prisoners of love web site offers captive dates
- Some of America’s most desirable felons are lining up to send you love letters, poems and even proposals of marriage.
The idea for www.hotprisonpals.com came from New York pop artist Sam Wagner, who began writing to a friend in jail several years ago. The prisoner then asked Wagner to write to his cellmate who had stopped receiving letters from his family.
Tommy DeWayne Cox, #182460
Draper Correctional Facility
Fountain 4000, Atmore AL 36015
Requests for letters from lonely prisoners kept coming, until Wagner was sending a monthly letter to more than 100 inmates. With no access to the Internet, letters are often the only contact U.S. prisoners have with the outside world.
Go to original by Rosalind Russell, Reuters.
