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When sending money to prisoners, you (usually) have three options: you may use western union, you may use money gram, or you may get a money order and mail it to a central processing location for it to be logged and processed.

You cannot mail money or money orders to the prisoner directly.

So when it comes to using WU/WU being the FBI: we are talking about MAILING MONEY TO SOMEONE IN JAIL. Anything you send them is *already* logged and tracked. Currently, my friend doesn't even get letters from me: they make photo copies of the letters and give him a cooy of the letter. Ostensibly they keep and file the original letter, though likely they throw it away unless it’s interesting to them.

I always find it amusing when someone comes out and tells me some bullshit about “THE FBI IS WATCHING”. Uh yeah bruh. I know. I am a known anarchist writing anarchists in prison. Lol. I want my diabetic friend to be able to pay for healthy snacks when he needs them, not eat the sugar and salt ridden trash in the chow hall. And I don’t want the petty dictators who rule his life to “lose” the money or withhold it, or make it take more than 6 weeks to get to him. I want him to have money when he needs it.

But oh wait, I forgot! We’re posturing about whose more down or more clandestine or more knowledgeable. Hahah.

So tell me, Mx. Experienced-Prison-Supporter, how do YOU send money to the people you support and what do you do when the prison guards fuck with your friends by “losing”/delaying money your friend needs to live, as the state would be just as happy to let him die in a diabetic coma? Just curious! Give me a better system and I will employ it.

Or maybe stop flexing on a topic you obviously have no experience with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Normally I don’t bother to respond to comments like this, or honestly LEAVE comments at all. I have probably been using this site since you were a teenager (if you aren’t currently one) and I have never left a comment before. But this is a topic that I am both passionate about and informed on, and I would prefer not to let your ignorance stand unchallenged, as your ignorance could prevent people in prison getting help, support, and supplies they desperately need.

But wait, tell me again how WU is the FBI. DUH—that's why the prisons make you use them, you asshat. But Please. Tell me more. I eagerly await your wisdom. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)