CNET NEWS - May 6 - Indeed, despite only enjoying 5% of the world's human beings, the US seems to be home to almost a quarter of all the world's prisoners. Meet-An-Inmate.com is a dating sites for prisoners. Meet-An-Inmate allows you to peruse not merely profiles, but pictures of those who may or may not have been locked up for a long time. It categorizes lady inmates, males, and even has a special section for newbies. The site says that all they're looking for are penpals.
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Online Dating For Those In Jail
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Online Sites For Dating Prisoners On The Rise
THE GRIO - Dec 21 - Sites with names like inmatepassions.com act as bridges that transform long-distance friends into lovers. Arlen Bischke started a prisoner pen-pal site called meet-an-inmate.com in 1998 to help prisoners connect to the outside world. "Correspondence with a stranger can give prisoners something to look forward to and help their moral", said Bischke. The online prisoner dating industry has grown from humble beginnings 1996 into a robust market today. Leading sites boast "between 7K - 10K profiles featuring prisoners seeking to connect. ABC News reports that there are over a dozen major prison dating sites.
by Alexis Garrett Stodghill
The full article was originally published at The Grio, but is no longer available.
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