The following are some examples of the businesses advertised on the site. His personal and presumably financial objective is to produce 5,000 poems. Some sites offer the possibility of communicating with a prisoner email forwarded through paper mail. The email addresses are managed by the operator of the web site, and the content is mailed to the prisoner on paper. Several sites reported that they had suspended this service because prisons limited the practice, but other sites continue to offer the service.
Some web sites focus on particular groups of prisoners based on ethnicity or legal status.
For example, Native Prisoners focuses on native prisoners, and other sites focus on prisoners on death row, etc. At Links Toward Abolition you can download and view a Realaudio and VDOLive interview with a death-row prisoner. The Post Office advisory recognizes that some prisoners may have legitimate intentions in seeking letter-writing relationships. The primary concern of the USPS is money order fraud, where a prisoner uses the relationship to persuade a penpal to cash a fraudulent check and send the cash to an accomplice. For many decades, correctional managers have had to balance the constructive and illegitimate purposes of prisoner visitation and letter-writing.