Wesley Gilreath
CCN #49493
445 Willow Street
Manchester, NH, 03103
Send Wes a letter by clicking here, or a postcard by clicking here.
When freedom activists go to jail, they do it standing up for everyone's natural rights. Please don't let them be forgotten! Send them letters, tell them how their actions affected you, update them on what's happening outside prison, keep them company, thank them, support them!
Flooding the jail with letters will send a message to the jailers that there is a huge number of us who aren't happy about the existence of victimless crimes, and it will simultaneously send cheer and hope to the activist who has been unjustly imprisoned.
And sometimes jail employees mistreat prisoners. The more public attention a prisoner is getting, the less likely he/she is to be maltreated (above and beyond locking them up). When the jailers know that many people are closely watching what happens to the prisoner, they're more careful with that prisoner. Letters to the prisoner and phone calls to the jail inquiring about the prisoner's well-being are easy, powerful ways to make sure that happens.
When you send a letter via this website, we pay for postage and mail it to your activist at whatever jail they are being held in.
Now that Google+ has "Pages" for organizations in addition to individuals, Mail-to-Jail has a G+ Page. We don't know yet whether this means that we'll have yet another place to submit updates to, or whether G+ will automagically share updates to this website when they happen. But we think G+ will be a popular sharing modality in the near future and we want it to be easy for people to find and participate at MtJ.
If you like G+, add us to your circles.
Dave Ridley requested that we link to this NH Underground Forum page, which shows contact information for imprisoned liberty activists that Mail-to-Jail does not currently support.
A very long time ago, I said that I would like a better logo for Mail-to-Jail. MtJ has survived since then with the logo I created, but recently John Ciacci created a new logo for us! Thanks so much, John, for supporting jailed liberty activists in New Hampshire and for your effort and talent in creating our new logo.
Thanks to Ivy for donating Christmas cards and to Anton Lee of Shire Photography for donating postcards displaying his awesome photography.
Please consider writing to jailed liberty activists on one of these new cards, or choose any of our other postcards or write a letter.
Thanks to Will Buchanan for purchasing the mailtojail.com domain, hosting it, and having it forward to this site! You can see here that we tried to obtain this domain originally, but had to settle for mail-to-jail.com (with the hyphens). He did this using his own money and time, without letting us know what he was doing, and it's greatly appreciated.
You can now get here with the slightly easier MailToJail.com domain. :)
A number of people have requested that Mail-to-Jail support liberty activists that are not in New Hampshire (and do not plan to move here, i.e., have nothing to do with New Hampshire). Some of the requesters are from other parts of the world and some are here in NH. Some of the jailed activists that have been suggested are only questionably liberty activists (from my limited research) - in other words, I couldn't tell from their stories or histories what their current plight had to do with trying to achieve more liberty (even if they were being jailed for a victimless crime, they may not have been aware of it); and others that were suggested were indeed liberty activists.
Thanks very much to Furb for sending us 100s of postcards in a dozens of designs, as well as stamps and envelopes! His donation will go a long way to help get outside communication to jailed liberty activists in New Hampshire.
We'll be scanning these new postcards and making them available on the website over the next few days.
I want to express a heartfelt thanks to all of you who wrote letters to Sam, Kurt, Kevin, Andrew, Dave, Ian, Lauren, Serene, Ivy, Elaine, Ed, and me - and who continue to write letters to jailed liberty activists. I know it means a lot to receive letters in jail, be they supportive or just casual conversation.
Thanks to Carl Ricketson for creating and distributing PorcFest '09 postcards for free at the recent Porcupine Freedom Festival. He not only handed them out to everyone he could find, but he donated a bunch to Mail-to-Jail. Thanks, Carl!
We have added the ability to send postcards in addition to letters. Currently, we only have a very limited supply of a very limited selection of postcards, but we're looking for more.