1. I've been writing to Charlene for over one year and we "click." I wrote to her from WriteAPrisoner.
2. I've sent her $20 several times for stamps. She has never asked me for anything.
3. She told me where her half-way house will be and will move to my city after that.
4. In any case, I sent her the last $20 in Oct 2018 as well as a Halloween card. She wrote back and thanked me and she told me it was her BD.
5. I wrote asking if she received the last card I sent her (Halloween). I also told her just to write back and I'll deposit another $20 for her BD.
7. So it's been close to 3-months and I haven't heard back from her.
8. I went to visit her profile on WriteAPrisoner but I get the message:
Access Denied You are not authorized to access this page I'm able to view all the other inmates' profile. I feel hurt because there is no reason for her to block me. Would you be so kind as to give me your input?
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There isn't any "Edit" option.
I forgot to write that she will be getting out in Apr 2019
I have that too with one of my penfriends. Not sure what’s the deal with that and I’m curious to know. Is she in a state where they aren’t allowed to have penpal profiles? Sille me is hoping that’s why we’re denied acces.
Charlene lives in the same state that I live in (California). And we have been writing back and forth for over one year. Her profile has always been available until several days ago. I don't know if I'm allowed to do this but would you be so kind to see if you are can view her profile? Charlene Michiels. I can also check to see if I can view your penfriends.,
Hi there,
It's more concerning that you have been sending a few installments of money and then she disappeared. That must be discouraging for you.
I wouldn't worry about that message on WriteAPrisoner though, I'm fairly sure that's what comes up once a profile has expired.
The same message came up for me when I tried viewing your penpal's profile and has came up for me on two occasions when trying to go back and view my own penpal's profiles (of which both times they had expired anyway).
I don't think there's any capacity for inmate profiles to block other users from viewing them. The inmates don't have internet access anyway.
Hope this puts your mind at ease!
Thank you so much for doing that and letting me know. It does put my mind at rest.
I don't understand why she hasn't written back, especially when I told her I'll deposit another $20 when she does.
No worries! Try not worry about it too much - it could be a number of reasons. Her facility may be in lockdown, she may be in the SHU, she could be sick or even been transferred to another facility. Hard to tell. I didn't hear from one of my penpals for months. They just fell off the face of the Earth - she then reappeared and had been in the SHU for 7 weeks during which time she had no access to writing materials or email etc.
@David, I looked her up on the CA DOC inmate locator, but she's not there anymore. I guess she's moved to the halfway house already. Hope you'll hear from her soon.
If her profile is "access denied" it means more as likely than not that her profile here has expired.
Well, one of my penpals also doesn't have a profile on here any longer, because it expirted and he didn't renew it. (or didn't have nyone renewing it for him). But when it expired, the day after the profile just wasn't visible on the site any longer.
So I guess, it's more probable that she has already been moved to the halfway house. Hope you'll soon get a message from her.
The odd thing is I checked:
https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ (Federal Burea of Prisons)
And it says she is still there and will be released 10/30/19. Yet she told me that she gets out Apr 2019.
Yet when I check:
https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/Results.aspx
There are no results and now people are telling she probably has already been released.
If she is out it's all in her hands. She has my home address and I don't have any way to contact her.
I want to thank everyone for responding. It really put my mind at ease knowing she didn't block me.
For what its worth, none of the inmates on this site have access to their profiles directly. It's usually a friend or family member who puts their profile on here. The only people who can deny access to profiles here are the admins on the website and the website is a completely different place to the forums here. If you have a direct concern go to the bottom of this page and click on email. Or click this link and get in touch with them directly.
https://writeaprisoner.com/printmail/home
David, I looked at the 'cached' (web archive) version of her profile and it said her profile would expire January 1, 2019. So that's why you couldn't access it anymore, like people mentioned here before me. Also, you indirectly said she's in federal prison. That's why she shows up on the first website you provided (bop) and not on the second website (cdcr). Bop is for federal inmates and cdcr is for state inmates. Anyways, it looks like she's still incarcerated. It could be that she might be out earlier because of good behavior (or good time).
I haven't been on this forum in years and there used to be a "like" function on messages. If there still was, I would have thrown this comment a like.
FYI, for anyone who has the address of an expired profile, you can always try web.archive.org
I get the same message when I try view my guys, however he writes to me weekly so I no it's got nothing to do with him.
Instead of waiting, phone the facility that she was last at and ask.