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Fair Shake Newsletter
Fair Shake sends out a free quarterly newsletter to incarcerated readers with access to the Trulincs / Corrlinks service. You can read them yourself by clicking on the links below.
Feel free to print the newsletter to send to loved ones, friends or pen pals!
NOTE: We had to switch to quarterly newsletters because Corrlinks has reduced their ‘group’ size from 1000 to 10. Yes, you read that correctly: 10. Other challenges came with this huge change and many newsletters could not continue. It”s hard!, but sending the newsletter once per quarter helps. In this way, the ‘lines of communication’ stay open. I send ‘news’ and readers send info to me, and we share our reflections. Folks also provide updates and ask questions.
As of November of 2024, more than 3200 subscribers receive the Fair Shake newsletter in federal prisons around the country, throughout the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC), and in the Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections.
In most of the newsletters I ask for ideas, reflections and responses to questions that come in. When the readers share their ideas with me, I compile them and share them with the readers. In this way, incarcerated readers get to hear each other’s ideas!
Sorry, but I do not email a monthly newsletter to the public. Feel free to volunteer to start this service. I’d be happy to help!
Incarcerated readers: sign up for the FS newsletter by emailing outreach(at)fairshake.net!
2025
2024
CLEP info (College Credit Exams)
**Start With Water – Tom Asacker
2023
WI Conditions of Confinement Bills
Wisconsin FS News: Happy Solstice!
Tackling Philosophobia Edition
Celebration and Education Edition
** Take Ownership of Your Future Self
** 36 Ways to Live Differently
2022
** Pell Grant Info (as of 12.22)
** Which Feelings Should I Follow?
**Script Journaling by Tom Asacker
5 FS Interlude: Memorial Moment
2021
7 Smoke From Distant Fires Edition
Living the Dream Blog: Fair Shake – Sue K. Interview
2020
12 News on New Year’s Eve Edition
9 Back To (Free) School Edition