E-message

Securus Technologies, a major prison-e-mail provider, is “reviewing the possibility” of incorporating the console into its approved education platform, which includes free “e-message exchanges between students and instructors,” says Jade Trombetta, a Securus spokesperson.

It's only a matter of time though, wrote Sarah Pender, currently imprisoned at the women's Rockville Correctional Facility, in an e-message to Truthout.

In another e-message, Pender added, "I don't want to think about what they will do with women who need ICU treatment or ventilators. We only have 13 beds in the infirmary, and only one isolation room. I hope we don't have to find out."

Holiday greetings, either in the form of a traditional greeting card or an e-message, are a tool to remind people you are there.

Obama's White House team has outdone its predecessors in spreading an e-message, even blogging from the West Wing.