hillbunnyb, you're right. I know that many women ended up in prison because of things they did while struggling with poverty, or very often, ending up with the wrong man. Some women in prison are innocent of drug charges, when it was their man who committed the crime, and let them take the fall for it. Some women fought back against their abusers.

There are dangerous and dishonest people in prison--men and women--that you have to be careful of, though. Some prisoners use their pen pals, or convince naive women that they love them, to commit crimes for them, or to use (even after they get out of prison, if they do), until they're through with them.

I think about innocent persons and people who aren't really bad people, but people who just made mistakes, or were in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. Those are people who might deserve some friends to write to. You just have to be careful.