Subscriptions for people inside who want to be listed.

People outside browse and write for free. First group of listings: the first quarter is free.

Standard
$25 / quarter
  • Up to 6 photos
  • Full bio
  • Bio in English and Spanish
  • Listed in the main browse page
  • Our checks done in 3 business days
  • Free profile changes
Premier
$60 / quarter
  • Up to 12 photos
  • On the home page for 30 days straight
  • Shared in 50 Facebook pen-pal groups
  • Reposted every week
  • Priority checks · 1 business day
  • Profile changes made within 24 hours

Pay for a year and save 20% ($80 / $128 / $192) · First group of listings: first quarter free · No setup fees · Cancel any time

Refund and billing details are in our Terms of Service.

Add-ons

Optional extras for people on either side.

Letter Relay
$15 / month

For people outside who do not want to share a home address or open their own account with the facility's messaging company. We send your letter through the facility's messaging system in your own words, with nothing changed, and pass the replies back to you. Paper mail if you ask. Facility staff read everything we relay.

Translation
$5 / letter

Spanish to English, or English to Spanish, for letters between people who do not share a language. A person does the translation, not a computer.

Match Suggestion
$10 / one time

Not sure where to start? Tell us your interests and languages and we suggest up to three profiles. It is a suggestion, nothing more. You decide.

For people inside and their families

Ways to pay.

A family member, friend or sponsor outside pays for the listing. Or the person inside pays from their facility trust account, where the facility allows it. We never ask a person inside for card details.

Card through Stripe (someone outside pays)

A family member, friend or sponsor pays by card through a secure Stripe link. Quarterly or yearly. Renews on its own until you cancel.

Check from a facility trust account

Mailed from the facility to our postal address, where the facility allows it. We confirm it arrived through the facility's messaging system. Does not renew on its own. We send a reminder 30 days before the term ends.

Money order

Mailed to the InsideLines postal address. A common choice when there is no family to help pay. Does not renew on its own.

First group of listings: first quarter free

Profiles in our first group pay nothing for the first quarter. The free quarter does not renew on its own. We send a reminder 30 days before it ends.

If we say no to a profile

Your money comes back.

We never turn someone away because of the kind of crime they were convicted of. We may say no in a single case where a profile is a real, current danger that showing the record does not fix, or where the facility's rules do not allow the listing. If we say no to a profile, or take one down for a reason of our own, we refund the unused part of the current term within 5 business days. If a profile comes down because the person asked us to after it was published, or because they were released, the current term is not refunded, and no more charges are taken.

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