Texas Inmate Families Association Helps Family Members

We came across an interesting site that might be appealing to many friends and family of Texas prison inmates.
TIFA, the Texas Inmate Families Association, is a group created to support those in the terrible situation of having a loved one in prison. They unite to support one another and to crusade for improved programs and conditions for Texas inmates while they are in jail and once they are released.
In Texas, there are about 200,000 adults incarcerated at any one time in state correctional facilities and county jails, more than any other single state in the United States. 55% of those incarcerated leave a spouse behind, and 85% leave a parent and or a child behind, and 75% of males and 95% of female inmates has a child under the age of 18, and more than half have kids under 10.
These bereaved relatives are the people TIFA was created to serve, with the goal of helping them help to break the cycle of criminality by strengthening families. They use the methods of education, support, and advocacy to achieve these goals.
One of their projects is the “Storybook Project”, allowing incarcerated parents to fully engage with their child during their development of reading skills, creating a meaningful, precious contact between the child and the estranged parent.
Another project TIFA heads the Pilot GED program, giving classes for inmated to earn their high school equivalency diplomas. Inmates are taught one-on-one and achieve amazing results: more motivated inmates with a greater sense of accomplishment and self-worth, who are less likely to become repeat offenders or slip back into a life of crime once released.
TIFA also fund the Angel Tree Program, a program to help break the cycle of crime that occurs when a child grows up with a parent in jail, but sharing gifts for children of inmates during the holiday season.

TIFA Website: TIFA.org