Should you wish to contact the CST Prisoner Services Committee you can do so via email or snail mail:

Cathy Rankin , PPC Chairperson
Spiral Tree
P.O. Box 8396
Columbus, GA 31908

For a list of CST's incarcerated members and to become a pen pal (you do not need to be a paid member of CST in order to become a pen pal!), please join our Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PaganPr isoners/.

Committee members will write to one or more inmate members on a regular basis (be "pen-pals"). This correspondence can be as simple as just exchanging friendly letters, to providing rituals and educational information, to acting as a teacher for an inmate member wishing to learn about paganism. CST will provide the committee members with the names, addresses, and interests of inmate members. The committee members are responsible for initiating contact, and are the ones who decide to what depth their communications with the inmates will go.

Materials we can mail to inmates: In the past, committee members have sent to inmate members information on past and upcoming CST rituals, articles and information from the internet on particular subjects, and rituals that the inmate can perform using no tools (as some prisons don't allow tools). However, CST cannot purchase and mail books, tools, or other supplies to inmates.

Occasionally CST receives books from publishers for review, and will mail these to any CST member, including inmate members, who request them, in exchange for a review to be published in "The Journey."

CST runs an egroup on Yahoogroups called "PaganPrisoners." This group serves to coordinate the efforts of CST's Pagan Prisoner Committee. We prefer that anyone wishing to join be a member of CST, but this is not required.

CST's policy on volunteers: You do not have to be a paid member of CST in order to serve on a committee or volunteer in any way. However, any expenses you incur as part of your service will not be reimbursed unless you are an active CST member (please note that expenses are not automatically reimbursed). You are required to be a CST member if you are an officer, chairperson, or committee head for any CST office or committee.

Any and all pagan inmates are welcome to join Church of the Spiral Tree (CST). CST offers free membership to pagan inmates who are otherwise unable to pay their membership dues. This free membership is good as long as the inmate is interested and is in prison, plus one year after release from prison, to allow time for the former inmate a chance to settle in, make contacts, and get in shape financially. After this one year period after release, the former inmate may apply for discounted membership to CST if he/she is still unable to pay the full amount for membership.

All pagan inmates who are CST members are eligible to be listed in the Yahoogroup "PaganPrisoners" database and in the Contacts section of CST's newsletter, "The Journey." CST's free inmate members receive the same benefits as regular paid members: a subscription to "The Journey" which comes out four times a year, and the right to vote once a year by absentee ballot in CST's board of directors elections, and in any other votes.

Once an inmate has joined CST, his/her name will be placed in the database for the Pagan Prisoner Committee (PPC). Please note that joining CST does not guarantee that an inmate member will get a "pen-pal," but we will make every effort to have each inmate member written to. Also note that in order to be listed on the PPC database for letters, an inmate must become a CST member by filling out the membership form.

Jail Mail - A prison pen pal site for inmates in need of a caring friend.

Alexandria Temple of Universal Metaphysics - A branch of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC), whose primary purpose is ministering to Wiccans/pagans in prison and jails, and their families, and secondary mission is to provide information about the Wiccan path to officials in Corrections systems (city, county, state and Federal) and assist them in addressing the spiritual issues of Wiccans in their custody. They provide in-person (Colorado only) and correspondance (anywhere) support to incarcerated Wiccans/pagans.

Resources for Incarcerated Pagans - By PEN

Prisoner Life - An forum networking prisoners, prisons, and the world.