Letters, Books and Such

Letters are immensely important to prisoners, to combat isolation and stay engaged with the world and your loved ones. Send Jesse letters soon and often! Use your common sense with what you write, don’t say anything that could get him in trouble. Photographs can be sent (but not polaroids), and photocopies are accepted, but avoid staples. Also, items with glue, glitter, markers, or general things the jail staff might find annoying won’t be accepted. Stamps, envelopes, writing supplies and money will all be rejected. If they don’t accept mail it should be placed in Jesse’s property and he’ll get it upon his release. This is a good basic guide to writing to prisoners

The mailing adress is:

Santa Clara County Dept. of Correction

Elmwood Complex

Jesse James Forrey/10008725/DWH239

701 South Abel St.

Milpitas, CA 95035

Here’s some books Jesse wants, please let us know what you send to avoid repeats. There’s also an amazon wishlist set up.

• X-Men comics.
• Lucasville by Staughton Lynd
• Cormac McCarthy (not “The Road”)
• Any Derrick Jensen, especially “As the World Burns”
• The Continuum Concept

Already sent:

• House of Light – Mary Oliver
• On The Justice of Roosting Chickens – Ward Churchill
• Custer Died For Your Sins – Vine Deloria
• Having Little, Being Much – Lorraine Perlman
• Plunder – Fredy Perlman
• Red Bird – Mary Oliver
• New and Selected Poetry, Vol. 1 – Mary Oliver
• The Male Herbal by James Green
• What We Leave Behind- Derrick Jensen
• Conquest – Andrea Smith
• Prose, Prose Poems and Poems -Mary Oliver
• The Ohlone Way
• Living My Life – Emma Goldman
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathon Saffran Foer
• 2 books about traditional/indigenous norwegian people