The US has an active network of prison pen pals arranged over Facebook where lonely or bored inmates, desperate for a connection to someone on the outside post adverts on the group. They do so in ...

And thanks to prison pen pal websites and improved technology for communication and visitation, new relationships between current inmates and “outmates” — as shown in the film — are on the ...

In a 15-second TikTok video, a blonde woman in a white T-shirt appears. She asks for men or women to reach out to her if they’d “like to talk” and, at the end, blows a kiss to the camera.