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Hello and welcome along to My Prison Pen Pal.

My name is Charlotte Gay a final year multimedia journalism student at Bournemouth University. This blog and further work around it will explore the idea of being a pen pal with someone who is currently serving a sentence in prison.

I want to find out what it’s like to write to people on the inside, but also what it is like being someone who is serving their time behind bars and having a pen pal outside of the world of prison.

During this five month project I will find a pen pal to write to, interview somebody who has been regularly writing to a prisoner and their experiences with their letters and find somebody who is now out of prison who used to have a pen pal and what it meant to them.