Imagine saying sorry, changing your behavior through insight, and living each day being a better person, but no one ever hears you? These inmates would like you to see the progress they have made and publicly say sorry without re-victimizing anyone further.
WELCOME TO THE AMENDS PROJECT
The incarcerated person is invited to participate
Please cut and past the following information and have the incarcerated person send it back with their signature on it. Once received, we will directly contact the person making their amends public through mail.
Contract for the Amends Project to own and publish information received from the participating person.
1. The person making amends signs a release form giving all rights to TheAmendsProject.org, LLC, for information sent on their behalf, refered to as they/them
2. They send a list of programs they have participated in that have made changes to behavior
3. They share art and poetry
4. They send submissions of insight with their remorse and understanding *slight editing may occur
5. They give their correspondence from their own commissary
6. All published work becomes property of TheAmendsProject.org, LLC as sole owner
7. After sending in sufficient documentation, published work will be available online and the incarcerated person will receive a certificate of participation and have a letter sent to place in their permanent file
8. Victimization is not tolerated and will not be published
9. Each item received is translated and put into a word document, then it published
10. To participate and become published, please send your inmate the SIGNATURE FOR RELEASE with THE BELOW information to:
The Amends Project, LLC TheAmendsProject.org@gmail.com
Incarcerated person's legal name__________________________________________________
Inmate ID #____________________________________________________________________
Location:______________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
Date of Birth: ____/_______/________________________
Signature for authority and all rights to be released to The AmendsProject, LLC _______________________________________
Donations made toward The Amends Project, LLC will go toward administrative costs and then be given to an at-risk-youth program to help those in need and put them on the right track.
Upon publication, a letter will be sent to the inmate for their records. We will work with what the incarcerated person gives us. We will transcribe the handwritten stories, statements, poems, amends programs, and lessons learned, or what is sent. Family pictures are prohibited. We will scan group pictures, art, and self drawn portraits and publish to TheAmendsProject.org in by the designated Inmate number and legal name.
We look forward to your participation and input. Feel free to share the webpage with loved ones but let them know it is a work in progress. Thank you for your participation, we are enthusiastic this will impact your life in the most positive ways.
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
― Angela Davis
"Inmates, Prisoners, Felons" , There are better alternatives—alternatives that center a person's humanity first and foremost. These include “person who was convicted of a crime,” “person who is incarcerated,” “person convicted of a felony,” and “person seeking lawful status.” These words and phrases matter. The people using this platform are "people".