The importance of pen pals for prisoners

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 7:22 p.m.

Right now over 300 New Zealanders are writing to pen pals in prison. They've connected with the inmates via Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa (PNCA). The organisation, which launched in 2016, was initially for trans people who experience the worst isolation in prison but is now available to any inmate, founder Ti Lamusse tells Karyn Hay.