Not too long ago I posted about a Just Detention initiative designed to send words of encouragement to victims of prison-based sexual assault and rape during the holiday season.

I just wanted to pass along a note I received from Just Detention International.

Hi Figleaf,

Link to Just Detention International This is just a quick note to thank you for your piece about the Just Detention International holiday card campaign to survivors of sexual abuse behind bars! We received several hundred cards from your readers, and they are still coming in. Overall, we now have well over 1,400 wonderful holiday messages. We can’t thank you enough for helping us spread the word! We’ll be sharing responses from survivors who received the cards next month and would love to share them with you and your readers as well. Just let me know if you’re be interested.

Hope you have a great holiday!

The note was to me but really, the thanks go to the hundreds of you from here and the Tumblr blogs that reposted it. A little bit of effort goes a long way.

If in the future you wish to do more than send holiday wishes to victims of sexual violence in jail, prison, and juvenile and immigration detention the contact for that organization, once again, is

Just Detention International
3325 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 340
Los Angeles, CA 90010
(p) 213.384.1400
(f) 213.384.1411
www.justdetention.org
www.twitter.com/JustDetention
http://www.facebook.com/JDIonFB

To the extent we desire a just society we should also have just detention policies. The policies we tolerate reflect on us, not on those we detain. And to the extent we hold others accountable for their crimes and transgressions so should we be held accountable for their treatment in custody.