T&B Inmate Solutions

A letter can change a life.

T&B Inmate Solutions keeps pen pal listings for people in state and federal prisons. Families send us a photo and a few honest lines, we post them here, and someone on the outside writes back. It costs nothing to look, and one message is all it takes to start.

Browse the listingsAdd someone you love

Questions? Call 463-288-7417 — we answer families, friends and inmates.

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Every listing is read by a person
Nothing goes up automatically. We read each submission before it is posted.
State and federal facilities
We list people in state and federal custody, and we tell you where they are.
One message is all it takes
Write through the site and we print it and get it to them. No account, no fees.
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We are a small operation. We answer the phone ourselves and we handle the parts that are impossible to do from inside.

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How it works, start to letter

  1. 01

    Send us a photo and a few lines

    A family member, a friend, or the person themselves sends us a photograph and a short bio — who they are, what they like, what they are hoping for.

  2. 02

    We read it and post the listing

    Every submission is read by a person before it goes up. Then it appears on the listings page with a photo, their age, where they are, and their words.

  3. 03

    Someone writes, and we get it to them

    Anyone browsing can send one message through the site. We print it out and get it to the person it was written for, so it arrives as a letter they can hold.

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Jesse, 32

Jesse, 32

State custody · Oregon

State Correctional Facility

I am 32 and I have been drawing since I was a kid. I paint with whatever I can get my hands on in here — mostly colored pencil and coffee. I am working toward a degree through the correspondence program, slowly. I would like to trade letters with somebody creative, or honestly anybody who will tell me what is going on out there. I am behind on the news by about six years.

Art & drawing · Music · Friendship

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Gary, 57

Gary, 57

State custody · Pennsylvania

State Correctional Facility

I am 57, from outside Pittsburgh. I have a life sentence and I have made my peace with most of it. I write a lot — short pieces, letters, the beginnings of a book I will probably never finish. I fished every creek in western Pennsylvania before I came in and I can still tell you which ones are worth it. Write me something long. I will write you something longer.

Books & reading · Writing · Letters

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Memberships

Keep their listing live

A membership keeps a listing published so people can keep finding them and writing to them. Pick a plan, pay by card, and it renews on its own until you stop — monthly or yearly, whichever suits you. Set it up once and forget about it.

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Paying by check or money order?

Plenty of our families do, and it is no trouble. Send it in, we post the listing, and we keep the renewal date on our side so nothing lapses. Tell us when you want it to run out and we will keep an eye on it for you.

Call 463-288-7417 to set it up

And the things families ask us for most

Photos for Inmates

Send us the photo with their name and ID number. We print it on prison-safe stock and mail it straight to them.

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Inmate text messaging

Our own text service, run by us. Short messages between your phone and the system they already use, set up with you directly.

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Social media management

We run their Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, or build new pages, so the account stays alive while they are inside.

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Everything else we do, for families and for people inside

Pen pal listings

A photo, a short bio and a place for people on the outside to find them.

Photos for inmates

Prints and photo orders sent to someone inside.

Inmate text messaging

Short messages instead of waiting on the mail.

Gift ordering

Send a gift to someone inside, without the guesswork.

Credit assistance

Help with the balances that keep phone calls and messages running.

Personal assistance

Someone to handle the runaround for you.

Legal forms

The right forms, filled in properly.

Mail forwarding

A steady address between the facility and home.

Social media management

Keep your page alive while you are inside.

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The mail is the one door that stays open

A sentence takes away a person’s address, their job, their phone, and most of the people who used to call. What it cannot take is the mail. A letter gets through, and the person holding it is not just an inmate number for the ten minutes it takes to read.

That is why the listings are the center of this site, and why everything else we do — printing photos, forwarding mail, keeping a phone balance alive, running a page, handling the paperwork — is built to keep one more line open between somebody inside and somebody who has not forgotten them.

Write to someoneWhat we can help with

Ask us anything

Whether you are trying to get someone listed, get a letter to them, or sort out something that has been stuck for weeks, tell us what is going on.

By phone
463-288-7417
Who you are talking to
We answer families, friends and people inside the same way.
Getting someone listed
Send the photo and the bio through the listing form and we will confirm it with you.

Send us a message

Tell us what you need and how to reach you. This comes straight to us, and we answer families, friends and people inside.

An email or phone number means we can get back to you. We never share either one.