XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: Barking@The.Moon   
      
   That's really peculiar, because once when I was in prison, I saw an ad in a   
   Punk Rock magazine and wrote to the person.   
      
   I dont really know why I did it, probably just bored.   
      
   It was a long time ago, and I think that prison guards who were controlling   
   the mail would edit the incoming and outgoing communications. They used to   
   laugh all the time and I never knew why.   
      
   How very odd.   
      
      
   > It was about 10 years ago. I placed an ad in a punk rock magazine and   
   > I received a lot of letters from prisoners. They were more appreciated   
   > because I was interested in true-crime and was definitely   
   > nonjudgemental. About half of them sounded unfamiliar to me, I mean,   
   > it was hard to believe that they were readers of the magazine which my   
   > ad was on.  Even though they claimed to be from upper middle class   
   > family, have college education, own business and all that, thier   
   > grammatical disasters and awful handwritings showed me thier lack of   
   > education. They sent me a couple of photos of their nice houses, cars,   
   > pets, good parents, etc. I was not really attracted by these stuff.   
   > They also requested me to send them more and more photos of myself   
   > each time.   
   >   
   > I 'm wondering if prisoners buy and sell these photos?   
   >   
   > I've heard about the penpal frand schem but I live outside the U.S. I   
   > bet they could have figured that out from my address and/or postage.   
   > It doesn't work out here.   
   >   
   > Does anybody have similar experience?   
      
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