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I pondered responding, because again: why argue with a stranger on the internet? So here is my last reponse:

1. If I go way far out of my way to give you the benefit of the doubt, at best you're making a comment about a kind of prisoner support that has NOTHING in common with what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about annoymous interactions through groups, I'm talking about literally visiting people in prison. So, you're point is, at best, moot.
2. You make assumptions that there ARE "local" prisoner support groups either where I'm at or where my friends are at. There aren't.
3. What is with all these comments here are about people "bringing things to the commissary directly"? Again, American prisons are different. There are federal and state prisons, not to mention county jails. There are maximum security prisons. There are medical prisons. They each have privitaized using different companies and different policies. Some things are standard, most things are not. The idea that you can "go to the commissary directly" makes an assumption about each model.
4. And finally, the issue with anything that involes 17 steps before you accomplish a goal means it's unlikely to be a habitual pattern of action. Sure, you can..go get cash, bike it down to the local prisoner support group, have that group turn it into a money order, have that group mail that money order to a central processing location, and then have that central processing location drag their happy asses putting money on the prisoners books...but that doesn't address any of the points I made about the petty dictators abusing your friends by withholding/losing/delaying/etc money.

But I dunno why I'm trying to take time to explain this to you. Do whatever, with whomever, however you choose. But to respond to my well thoughtout argument about developing an extremely close relationship with a prisoner where they call you, you visit them, you write them letters, you email them, you send them books, and you send them money to then tell me that...I should....essentially launder my donations through an outside group to maintain an entirely pointless charade misses some basic fucking points in the model that I'm talking about. But whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯