Human Writes

11 Jun 2015 | by Mandy Lawrence

Mandy Lawrence writes about her experience of being a penfriend with a prisoner on death row

'...a letter can be scribbled whilst waiting at a train station or in half an hour before bed!' | Photo: Daria Nepriakhina / flickr CC.

For most of my life I knew little about prisons and penal systems though I was, for a long time, an activist with Amnesty International. As a new attendee at Meeting for Worship I became aware of Friends’ long-standing concern in this area and made a vague enquiry about Human Writes after seeing an advert for the organisation in the Friend. Within a few months I had a penfriend on death row.

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