 Ja, willkommen zurück im CBS-Kanal. Ich mache es ganz kurz. Es geht weiter mit fünf Leuten, die werden über das Thema Mail-to-Jail reden. Next Talk will be in English, so Mail-to-Jail is the subject of the next talk. And yeah, welcome in the stream. Hi, mute yourself, as I just said. I'm McFly, as you probably know this topic is always close to my heart, because with Mailways we always have stands trying to motivate people to send mail to jail. This doesn't work properly this time with the virtual conference, so we decided to give a talk about this. Yeah, I have with me Squidget, who will start out doing introduction, and then Stefan from the Germans, Ryan and Barrett, giving you an idea why it is important to support people that are sitting in jail and why it is so valuable in jail to get all of those mails. With this, we have some slides that don't work. Do you see my slides? Yes. So, Squidget. Hello. This is going to be a real quick talk about sending mail to prisoners. Sending mail to prisoners is one of the easiest and most concrete ways that you can support people who are in prison. One of the biggest reasons that you want to send mail to people in prison is that there's a lot of downtime in prison. Sending mail is one of the ways that you can fill that time in prison. If prison is not forgotten, keeps and studies have actually shown that people who are better connected to those on the outside have a better outcome once they are released. This is a really great way to just keep people connected. It also does a really great job of just letting people know what's going on in the outside world. A lot of times, news is kind of hard to come by when you're in prison. So, when you write somebody, when you tell them about things that are going on in the outside world, that's really important to them. Sending mail, again, that's one more reason why it's just really important and really good to send mail to prisoners. Prisons often have really, really niche rules about how you send mail. There are general rules that you do want to follow. The first thing, don't talk about anything illegal. You don't want to say anything that you're not going to say. You don't want to say anything illegal. You don't want to say anything that you're not going to say in front of a judge, a jury, police or prosecutors. All mail that is sent to prisons is screened. It's screened in the mail room before it is given to the prisoner that you are sending it to. So, obviously, be smart. Don't talk about anything illegal that you do. In that same vein, some prisoners also have specific topics that they can and can't talk about. Sometimes prisoners can't talk about things related to their case. They can't talk about things that, if they're a part of a group case, some prisoners can't talk about their co-defendants and things like that. So, you really do want to check about what they can and can't talk about, because even if they're not talking about it, if you send something to them that is prohibited, they can get in trouble for it. The other thing that you want to do is, as the slide says, include a return address in the body of your letter as well as on the loop. Some prisons will not accept letters if there is not a return address on the envelope itself. But if you want an answer back, you're going to want to include a return address on the letter as well, because sometimes envelopes just don't get to the person you're writing to. So, just somewhere on the letter, you're going to want to include your return address. The other thing, don't include anything in your letter unless otherwise directed. That means no blank paper, no stamps, no money of any kind. In a lot of places, especially in the federal system, these are not allowed. There are ways that you can help prisoners obtain these things, mostly by putting money into their commissariat county due to buy these things separately. In some places, you can include these things, but most places, especially in the federal system, you are not allowed to include these things. They will not reach the prisoner, so don't send them. And finally, you're going to want to be very patient when waiting for a return letter. Sometimes mail gets held, sometimes prisoners just don't have the money to buy things like paper, stamps, pens, envelopes, things like that. So, just don't have the resources to buy these things from the commissariat. So, you're just going to want to be patient and don't get mad if a prisoner doesn't write back. They just might not have the money. So, and then we get more into the little niche rules of writing to a prisoner in the federal system. The federal system started rolling out very, very specific rules of how you can write to a prisoner. And these rules are horrible. They are draconian, and as always, especially in prison, the cruelty is the point. These rules include things like, you are going to want to write on white paper only and send it in a white envelope only. The blind notebook paper is fine. But any colored paper, any off-white paper, that is not allowed. Your letter will be rejected. You're going to want to write in blue or black ink only. Any colored pencils, any markers, any crayons, those are not allowed. They will cause your letter to be rejected. Greeting cards and postcards were previously allowed. They're not anymore. You're not going to want to send them. Do not affix anything to your paper or to the envelopes. That means no stickers, no glitter, nothing. Even a return address label that is a sticker, a sense of any kind on your paper. That means scented markers, scented pens. Don't spray your letters with perfume. None of that will cause your letter. Jeremy Hammond, somebody who I've done prison support for. Somebody actually had a very strong sense of spices on their letter because they were using it. They were writing it when they were cooking. That actually caused the letter to be rejected. But sometimes, even if you follow all of the rules, your letter will still be rejected. I included these two tweets because sometimes it just all comes down to who's in the mailroom on a certain day. Jeremy was sent the exact same book at two different prisons. One prison accepted it, one prison rejected it. Why? Who knows? Jeremy has had dozens, if not hundreds of letters and books rejected for various reasons. In 2016, he was allowed to both get and read Huxer, whistleblower spy by Ibiela Coleman at FCI Manchester, which is a medium security prison. But in 2018 at FCI Milan, which is curiously enough a low security prison, that same book was rejected and he was not allowed to receive it. So again, mail restrictions are often precarious and subject to honestly who's in the mailroom on any particular day. Again, and some other things that you can do to help prisoners books another great way to help them. Oftentimes books must be sent directly from a publisher or distributor, such as Amazon.com. I know we all hate that, but unfortunately it is oftentimes the only way that books are allowed to be sent. Sending money to a prisoner allows them to purchase things like pen, paper stamps so that they can write right back to you. But it also allows them to purchase phone time, purchase computer time so they can again another way to touch with friends and loved ones. Putting money on a prisoner's books in the federal system easiest way using Western Union. If they're in the state system, there are so many ways that different state or county prisons put money on prisoners books. You're honestly, if someone's in the state system, you're just going to have to look up how their particular prison does it because there are just so many ways. Jay Pay is a big one. It's honestly just down to what prison a particular person is in. So that is a quick rundown of how to write a prisoner. Okay, next we have, thank you. Next we have Stefan, who will do this in German. And I guess the translation team will have to swap this around in die Artikel, in the final download. So Stefan, you've been in, du bist 1988, hast du für 68 Tage quasi für den CDC im Knast gesessen? Ja, ich war geladen zu einer Sicherheitskonferenz als Eröffnungsredner und wurde dann gleich am Flughafen weg verhaftet und dann nach zwei Tagen in diese typischen französischen Gläsern in Polizeizellen haben die mich dann erst mal für 68 Tage weggepackt. Ja, also aus meiner Erfahrung Knastpost äußerst wichtig. Ich hatte den riesigen Vorteil, dass sich halt einer der Ersten war in Europa, die neben Hackhaar-Geschichten weggesperrt wurden und auch ein großes Medien-Echo und damit strengen, habe ich also dreimal am Tag Post bekommen in Frankreich. Morgen kam halt die Zeitung an. Das Tollste war einmal ein Päckchen von Playboy selber mit einem ganzen Haufen Playboy-Magazine drin, die ich dann natürlich im ganzen Trakt verteilen konnte. Überhaupt alles am Zeitung konnte ich verteilen und das hat mir das Leben sehr erleichtert, weil ja, niemand legt sich mit jemandem an, der den halben Trakt halt mit Zeitungen versorgt. Aber das für mich wichtigste waren Briefe von Leuten, die selber schon mal in die Knast waren oder eine ähnliche Erfahrung gemacht haben, weil da merkt man halt, es ist auch draußen Leute, die das verstehen. Viele reagieren halt hektisch und panisch, wenn dann jemand mal weggesperrt wird und in Knast läuft die Zeit halt anders. Du rechnest nicht in Stunden und Minuten, sondern eher in Tagen, Wochen und Monaten. Es ist also so eine Entschleunigung dabei. Und dadurch gibt es natürlich auch Missverständnisse, die sich so mit der Zeit aufbauen. Ich habe bei mir dann sechs Monate nach der Knastzeit gedauert, bis ich dann auch wieder mich geerdet hatte sozusagen. Aber die Post hat mir sehr viel geholfen. Ich habe auch all diese ganzen Briefe noch, die ich damals gekriegt habe. Es ist also so ein dicker Start, ich habe den nur in meinem Archiv jetzt nicht gefunden. Es hat mir sehr geholfen. Und selbst wenn das 33 Jahre her ist, an dieser Stelle doch mal ein Dank an alle, die damals mir was geschickt haben. Danke schön, Stefan. Und für das letzte, wir werden wieder zurück in Englisch, unless Ypank hat eine Frage da. Dann bitte einfach drücken. Okay, dann ... Das System ist kinder annoying. Okay, dann mache ich den nächsten Stopp, und dann werde ich zurück in den System und auf den nächsten Stopp gehen. So, ja. Hier geht es. Hallo. Danke für das Gespräch. Ich habe vier Jahre in den Fed seit 2012 bis 2016 verabschiedet. Es ist immer wieder so, dass es immer wieder so geht. So, natürlich, wie ich meine, hat die Regulierungen in den US die Rules differen, die Verzüge der Regeln differen, die zwischen New York und Texas haben Versicherungen mit điềugüthen. Die Rules und Regulierungen sind oft abgeworfen. Was die Klinik oder eine Spissgabe ist für die, die in Ordnung sind, flighten. Das ist wahnsinnig das Widerste in amerikanischen Lebens, das ist aufgrund des Danachgames. Es ist ein guter Punkt, für ein Prisoner, für viele Gründe zu haben, aber besonders wenn es um die Kommunikation geht, die Initiation der Kommunikation für den Prisoner geht. Eine Person wie sie, kann in Bezug auf die Leute wissen, was die Regulierungen sind, wo sie gehen, um alle verschiedenen Schwierigkeiten und Barriere zu facilitieren, wenn sie sich mit dem Prisoner-System beendet. Sie können sich mit dem Prisoner-System beendet. Sie können sich auch beendet, oder sie können sich bewusst sein, dass sie sich mit dem Prisoner-System beendet. Es ist schwer, die Probleme zu summarisieren. Es gibt so viele und sie können sich beendet. Das ist immer eine wichtige Sache. Wenn man im Prisoner-System beendet, ist es ein Teil der Aktivität, in der man mehr überführen kann, um mehr in Resulten zu erreichen. Es ist auch der Grund, um das Prisoner-System zu unterstützen. Ich werde das ein bisschen machen. Aber wenn man im Prisoner-System beendet, ist das dein Ziel. Es gibt viele Werte, die helfen. Besonders im Prisoner-System, und im Moral-System. Die Prisoner, die regulares Mail bekommen, bekommen Respekt, zwischen den Prisoner-Systemen. Das kann mehr und mehr, oder in einigen Städten, als auch andere, helfen. Es kann ihnen helfen, die Städte, die Städte, Administration und Garten zu geben. Es gibt viele Menschen, die im Prisoner-System beendet, und das hat einen großen Effekt, um die Städte zu verabschieden und zu verabschieden und zu verabschieden und zu verabschieden. Das ist sehr hilfreich. Und auch, um das Prisoner-System zu verabschieden, oder die Städte zu verabschieden, geht es weiter im Prisoner-System. Es gibt Respekt, die Städte, die Städte, die sich von ihnen verabschieden. Es hilft uns zu erstellen, die Städte, die Städte, die etwas gewohnt ist. Es hilft uns zu erstellen, die Städte, die das Prisoner und der Städte verabschieden. Einige von den Städte, die die Städte erhalten, sein müssen, in den Bergen. Die Städte, forth where they have meetings, events once a month by the prisoners. There's been mixed results from those. Some meetings produced basically letters which are all kind of the same, like, I'm writing to you to have a meeting to help things well and blah blah blah. That's it's all well and good. But those meetings in my view, they should have bought more guidance as to particular contents of the letter they're writing anyway that you go to the prisoner. Dinge wie Informationen, wie es schon gesagt hat, auf Events. Es gibt einen speziellen Fall, den man wissen kann, was auf der anderen Seite der Welt ist, die er betrachtet werden soll. Das ist, dass die Probleme, oder die Dinge, die man wissen kann, die die Prisoner vielleicht nicht bewusst sein, v.a. vor dem Trial oder der Sentencing sind. Es gibt ein paar von diesen Fällen, wie mine, dass es eine komplizierte Hinsicht gibt, methyledo in terms of fbm informants was known about it in terms of like you know, things that are put out on twitter so forth, after the arrest that may be useful for the prisoners. No and then a lawyer for instance may not may not recognize as useful. You know, being not conversant with circumstances, and so to give you examples of that, there were people who were getting trying to get involved in my in my legal defense , Ich habe die Legal Defense Network und die Aktivismen aufgenommen, während ich ein Prism war. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, wie ich sie erinnert habe. Eine der Menschen war Cassandra Fairbanks. Ich wurde von einem Volunteer von der Piste gelohnt, der mir erinnert hat, was diese Person war und warum die Bedeutung der Bedeutung war. Und später ging sie mit den Trumpen Menschen und so weiter. Es hat viele Damage in der Kommune geblieben. Das sind die anderen Dinge, die ein Prisoner hat. Oftmals, wenn sie eine Support-Person haben, kann die Support-Person diese Dinge nicht sein. Das ist ein Beispiel eines sehr wichtiges und impactfulen Dinge, die man mit den Prisonern schreiben kann. Es macht sie sicher, dass es eine Chance ist, die sie schon erinnern sollten. Es ist, wie gesagt, in der Federalsysteme und in anderen Systemen, in den USA, es ist ein E-Mail-System, ein Ersatz-E-Mail-System. Es ist sehr hegedeht. Es ist sehr AOL-isch. In short, es ist nicht eigentlich E-Mail. Es ist sehr viel geschehen. Das ist eine Struktur. Die DOP, die Bedeutung der Prisons, ist eine tolle Alternative. In some cases, zu Worten. Man bekommt nicht den gleichen Effekt, dass die Prisoner, man hat das ganze Mal, man hat das Visible, man hat das Album, man hat das Visible den Likewise, Phones. As mentioned, you can put money on prisoner's phones, put them on the books directly on their accounts at prison. If you write a letter to a prisoner, it might be a good idea if you'd like to put your phone number at the end and tell them you're putting $5 or something on their prison accounts so that they wish to, they can call you back easily. If not, they can buy some coffee. It depends on how entertaining your letter is, I suppose. I want to cut the show, but we also need to give Ryan some time and we have four minutes left. Okay. Send books. Send books as needed, buy on the rules, etc. Magazines are great. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm trying to slide again. Yeah, I'm Jeremy Ryan. I have done 19 of the past 25 months in county jails. Well, minus one week at MCC Chicago, where I got sang to by R. Kelly at night. But outside of that, it's been for political activism. It's mainly been in county jails. And county jails are significantly worse than prisons, state prisons or federal prisons. That's part of how the American justice system ropes you in. They put you in this horrible environment when you're legally considered innocent. And they put you in this horrible environment to try to get you to cave. In my federal case, they were trying to get me to cave to a nuclear terrorism charge. I became the first person to be charged federally under 2332 I acts of nuclear terrorism. And six months into the 16 months, they offered me time served. And they said, just take the terrorism charge. We'll let you out. And I did every day of the next 10 months not being able to get out. They also have horrible medical care. So people with medical issues need people on the outside able to convey that. There was one time when I had, I was taking out my contact because they don't give you enough contact lens solution. So I wore them a little bit too aggressively. I was taking it out and lacerated my eye. It took them 18 hours to get me to a hospital as my eyes like bleeding. And it was only because I had people on the outside calling 911 locally and saying that I was needed, medical attention was needed. And obviously they wouldn't go, but it was clogging up the 911 center. But it also just means a lot to get mailed. It means a lot for a wide variety of reasons. But a lot of people, a lot of activists, they don't get a whole lot of mail. And so it tends to make them sometimes think, if they don't get the national stories, then people don't really write. And so sometimes they think people don't really have their back. And so it can really help to have people say, yeah, we know about you, we support you. And outside of that, you know, just money on books, there's in particular, particularly in jails, there's these systems like getting out where you can send messages to people and all sorts of jails across the country. Some of them like the guy in Dan County that I had posted, who's currently, he's being accused of firebombing the police station downtown. He is in jail. And they have a little messaging system called Getting Out, where you can send instant messages with the inmates. So there's all sorts of ways and all sorts of different places. But regardless, US jails in particular are horribly shitty. And there's literally nothing to do all day except maybe read a book from the book cart that's been there the whole six months or watch whatever someone else is watching on TV. Outside of that, there's not really a whole lot. So, you know, even just a small thing like the letter helps to break the monotony and show that you have support. And yeah, I can't talk too much about prisons, because like I said, I only spent one week at MCC Chicago on a fake case thing. But I was on 6th Floor 16, which at the time was the same floor as our Kelly and they were making us sing everybody to sleep. It was kind of funny. But either way, yeah, thank you for having me. And thank you for doing this, because I know it's going to make a big difference to a lot of people. And that's really what we need. We need people to continue to fight. We need people once they get out of jail to be motivated to get into our prison to be motivated to continue fighting. Because not everybody is going to necessarily have the same level of resilience as someone like, say, myself or Barrett or the other gentlemen there. And sometimes your support will make the difference on whether they'll have that resilience or not. Okay, thank you all three or all four. I'd like to point out that the Millieways Wiki and we'll try to touch this link to the talk in some way. The Millieways Wiki, we have stories, addresses and information for people that are sitting in jail at the moment, which includes people like Julien Assange and some others that it's important to send mail to. So, and thank you for the Siebes, for Sieben Nandepang for giving us the opportunity to do this here. Thank you, Max Lai. Hi to the Millieways. To all the people out there, write some letters to jail. Okay, we stop this here now. And the next talk up will be in just four and a half minutes. See you then.