Are you a careful researcher? We need someone to verify contact info for our list of Texas Contacts on the website. Basically call the people on that list and make sure the list is right. Then send me all that info for the website! Email diana@texasjailproject.org if you can help.
We also need someone to find news stories online about county jails and email those to us. Then we can put those on the website, so people can understand what the problems are.

We need eyes and ears around the state!

In a state with some 250 local lockups scattered over a huge area, we need people who report what's going on. Please help us by becoming a TJP monitor and remember, we are watching county and city jails, NOT prisons or state jails. We especially welcome ex-offenders to help us.

If you'd like to volunteer in any way, please contact us by email at diana@texasjailproject.org

We also need people to

• write letters to inmates
• contact the chaplain at their local jail (we have some questions we'd like you to ask him or her)
• work on stories for the website
• collect clippings and local stories on their jail and send to us.

Other ideas to consider

• visiting inmates
• teaching classes
• finding out how to donate books or newspaper subscriptions and donating them to a library or to inmates
  making contributions to commissary funds for those with no friends or families to contribute funds
• Spread the word: tell people who have contact with former inmates of a local jail to look at this website and write to us, either on email or in a letter.
• Stand outside the jail at visiting time and tell visitors to contact the Texas Jail Project about abuses they see or concerns they have. You might hand out cards with our URL and contact info on them. (until we have cards, just make your own on paper, please!)

Other ways you can volunteer

• We need a list of church and civic groups in each region who might be interested in helping us help inmates and improve the jails; please include their contact information.
• We need people who can drive over to join us during actions and press conferences at various hometown jails, for example, when we award the Texas Hellhole Award.
• Email us with your ideas!