IAHR is setting out to build formal reentry partnerships this year in DC, Maryland, & Virginia. 

In June, IAHR sat down with Virginia's Secretary of Public Safety and the state's top corrections officials — the kind of meeting that doesn't happen unless people in power are starting to listen. But letters keep arriving from inside Red Onion and Wallens Ridge telling a different story.

Every month, people type "federal inmate pen pals" and "prison pen pal programs" into Google and land on IAHR's website — proof that the need for connection is out there, waiting. Here's what happens after they click.