Build a Roadmap Home—One Document at a Time Reentry doesn’t start at the gate. It starts now. Whether your loved one is months or even years from release, preparing early can make the transition smoother, safer, and more successful. One of the best tools you can create from the outside is a Reentry Binder—a personalized roadmap that helps your loved one step into freedom with clarity, resources, and support.

Affirmations and Tips for Loving Out Loud—Even When Others Don’t Understand There’s a unique kind of courage it takes to love someone who’s incarcerated. Not just because of the distance or the challenges—but because of the judgment. You’ve probably heard it all: “You could do better.”“Why would you waste your life?”“It’s not a real relationship.” Whether it comes from family, coworkers, or strangers on the internet, the stigma around prison relationships can feel heavy.

HB 1506 would eliminate the cost of all communication services for incarcerated individuals in state and county facilities, and relieve that financial burden on families.

Understanding the Impact and Being a Safe Space From the Outside Prison changes people—and not always in the ways that outsiders assume. Your loved one may not talk about it much, but the daily stress, isolation, hypervigilance, and emotional suppression inside those walls can leave real, lasting scars. This is trauma. And healing from it takes time, care, and often, support from someone they trust.

How to Refocus on You While Loving Someone Inside When someone you love is incarcerated, it’s easy to feel like your life is on pause. You wait for calls. You wait for letters. You wait for visits. And somewhere along the way, your needs, your dreams, your routines start to fade into the background. But here’s the truth no one says out loud enough:

Let’s be real. Loving someone who’s incarcerated means you’re doing everything. You’re the partner, the advocate, the emotional support, the policy researcher, the encourager, the financial provider, and the one keeping it all together. Sometimes it feels like no one understands just how much you’re carrying. That’s where ChatGPT comes in. It won’t fix everything, but it can help you get some of that weight off your shoulders.

Eleven years into my prison sentence, I finally got sick from chow hall food.

An Open Letter to the Ones Who Are Loving Through the Walls What no one tells you is how quiet your life can become.How birthdays feel strange. How holidays split in two. How you celebrate victories by yourself and carry the hard days alone. What no one tells you is that loving someone in prison means learning to make peace with grief that never really ends—it just softens.

There’s something powerful about putting words to the life you want to build—especially when you're separated by prison walls. For couples navigating incarceration, the future can feel uncertain, fragmented by policies, timelines, and distance. But one way to reclaim a sense of control and connection is by creating a shared vision letter. This isn’t just a love letter. It’s not a list of goals or a daydream.

There’s a kind of helplessness that creeps in when someone you love is incarcerated and the system around them seems built to resist change. You watch policies stall, bills fail, and reforms take years to materialize. It is easy to believe that nothing you do will make a difference. But here is the truth: voices matter. And handwritten or thoughtfully crafted letters to lawmakers still carry weight.

When you're in a relationship with someone who is incarcerated, life doesn’t pause—but your emotional needs can sometimes get buried under the weight of holding everything together. Between managing daily responsibilities, staying connected to your partner, and navigating the complex emotions that come with distance, it’s easy to forget that youdeserve care, too. That’s why building a monthly self-care kit—what I like to call a "Resilience Box"—can be one of the most healing things you do for yourself.

Having a loved one incarcerated is an emotional rollercoaster for both partners. Feelings of anger, grief, shame, and loneliness are common for prison wives and it’s crucial to find healthy outlets…

Maintaining a deep connection with your partner during incarceration can be challenging, but shared journaling offers a creative way to bridge the distance. This 30-day guided journal project is de…

It is no secret that incarceration takes a toll on mental health. But what is often overlooked is the emotional weight carried by those on the outside—partners, parents, siblings, and children—who …

Loving someone who is incarcerated turns you into a caregiver, whether or not you ever meant to become one. You’re the steady voice on the other end of the phone. The advocate writing emails and letters. The person holding the home together, raising kids alone, managing finances, showing up for visits, sending commissary, researching legal support. You’re navigating grief, hope, and bureaucracy—often in the same hour.