Jailbabes: Female Inmate Seeking Pen Pals

Women in prison are looking for someone on the outside to write to through the US Mail to help make their time while incarcerated go by quicker. They typically seek someone to be a friend with compassion and understanding, open-minded, open hearted, with a sense of humor and a big shoulder. Writing allows them to share their dreams, their fantasies, their hopes for a better future upon their release.

Take some time and read some of the ads on here! Then decide whether you can be someone to brighten the day of a female prisoner who has no one to talk to except another female prisoner like herself.

Cowtowninfo.com, formerly known as Gabby's Lounge BBS that was started in 1989, has evolved into a web site specializing in helping incarcerated women find friends as pen pals to help them through their loneliness.

Each inmate has her own personal web page that may include as many photos and as much text as she wants. There is a one time minimal cost for her to place an ad, but there is no cost associated with you retrieving her mailing address.

In the early days of Gabby's Lounge, I began receiving a lot of personals ads from inmates, which prompted the categorization of "Jailbabes" to separate them from other personals ads. The name stuck, and at one point someone else even registered that domain name. It didn't last long because they tried to charge $7.00 (or so) for each inmate's mailing address that you can get here for free.

But after 20 years I've decided to call it quits. This site will continue until the domain name expires, so seek out those who you would like to befriend now, before their ads vanish into cyberspace!

You'll find personals ads from women in prison, with and without photos, listed by state or in order of receipt. Also, I have set up a Yahoo! Group for discussion about your experiences writing to female inmates.

If you would like to submit an ad for an inmate friend of yours, there are many other web sites that provide this service. In particular, please consider Paper Dolls, which provides space for females and Iron Men for males.

Sometimes women do dumb things and get caught, ending up in prison as a last resort.

Sometimes they're guilty as hell and have committed major crimes! But sometimes, although guilty, the crimes aren't violent. Crimes such as using drugs, writing bad checks and forgery, while punishment is in order, don't make these women especially bad people.

Being in prison can be very lonely for them, and usually they've lost all connection with former friends, sometimes even their families disown them!

So they seek pen pals. Someone they can write to and share their thoughts and dreams. Someone who will write back and be sincere, compassionate, caring. They don't have access to modern conveniences like the Internet, and many can't even get pens and paper to write on! Sometimes she'll have to tear a note pad page in half so she can write to two people. Stamps are scarce, too, and indigent women need help with things such as stamps along with their normal hygiene products. An inmate in Missouri earns all of $8.50 per month to buy toiletries or other necessities!

So if you're someone willing to take on a new friend, someone who will write frequently and help, through your words, less fortunate ladies get through some very, very difficult times, browse the list of female inmates seeking friendships through the good ol' United States Post Office's mail system! Read the inmate's intimate personals ad. Even join the Jailbabes Yahoo! Group and discuss your experiences with others who write to inmates.

You can bring more happiness than you might realize just by sharing your thoughts and concerns with one of these ladies who is less fortunate than you. Make a note of their birth date and send them a birthday card, it would mean SO much to her!

For some of the more common questions I've received via email, the answers are posted here.

Direct Contact Ads

Cowtowninfo.com hosts these web pages for ladies in prison. These female prisoners are looking for many things, including love, marriage, pen pals, and a good solid relationship with men and women in the free world. Cowtowninfo.com has been providing these listings (since Labor Day Weekend of 1989) to bring men and women together with an opportunity to restructure their lives. These ladies do not have access to the Internet. Their only means of contact with the outside world is through snail-mail. The mailing addresses of these inmates are provided totally for free.

Jailbabes (with photos)

Jailbabes (without photos)

Jailbabes (just names and addresses without ads)

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