The attorney general of Missouri, Jay Nixon, is cracking down on some 33 female inmates who have been using the internet to become penpals with men on the outside, and then convince the guys to send them money. Nixon claims that the inmates have taken in almost $300,000, and he will use a law that's been on the books since 1998 to get that money away from the women and into the state's coffers.
If you're like me, you had no idea this kind of prison commerce was even going on. I was curious about how these inmate penpal deals work in the first place, so today on my show, I talked to Adam Lovell, who runs one of the sites. He explained how they work, what kind of ads the women are posting, how they do it without internet access in the prison, etc.
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