Project Solidarity is low commitment and incredibly important as you will correspond with individuals in solitary confinement who hear about and request to participate in this project. Please consider joining and tell your friends to join as well!
In order to join Project Solidarity, you must attend an orientation where we will hand out specific guidelines, sample letters, and a contract concerning expectations, commitments, and issues of privacy. The orientation takes roughly 30 minutes; you will begin to independently correspond once your signed contract is received.
Orientations are held at the beginning of each semester, and information regarding these sessions is sent via the residential college listservs and SPEAR newsletters. If it is later in the semester, and you want to participate in the project, please reach out through our email, psprinceton@gmail.com. We will find a time that works with you to set up an orientation session.
If you need to reprint the documents from the P.S. orientation: the writing guidelines can be found at this link, the participant contract at this link, and the introduction letter to correspondents at this link. For those working on writing the first letter, we also have a sample letter designed as a loose suggestion, accessible here.
After sending your first letter, you can pick up and drop off subsequent letters in the designated boxes in the Pace Center Lounge - the lounge has the same general hours as Frist, so you can drop off letters any time of the day. You will be notified via email when a Project Solidarity letter addressed to you is received.
To learn how to address the envelope for a Project Solidarity letter, check out this PDF.
If you have any further questions, please send them to psprinceton@gmail.com or directly to Kennedy Mattes, P.S. project leader, at kmattes@princeton.edu.