Prison pen pals

I've just stumbled across WriteAPrisoner.com and while browsing through a number of profiles it struck me that this is a vast pool of possibly highly motivated pen pals. Clearly, murderers and the like wouldn't make the best match for kids but adult learners who would like to find someone interesting to write to could give it a go.

Here's what Mumia Abu-Jamal, one of the more famous prisoners, has to say on prisons:

When one considers prayer, one thinks of those instances in life when divine intervention seems most needed: in times of oppression, burdens, and peril. As Sir Francis Bacon put it, "Troubles and adversities do more bow men's minds to religion."

If that is so, then prisons, places of the most profound repression, must be sites of profound religious experience, of contemplation, of transformation, of insight, and of prayer.

Why not add a bit of EFL learning then?