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« on: March 02, 2011, 09:50:59 AM » |
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 Hello Members and Guests.
Today we are marking our fifth anniversary of Illinois Prison Talk. It seems like just yesterday we were a handful of stragglers that were floundering through the incarceration of a loved one in the Illinois Department of Corrections. The original founding group's goal was to share simple information about current lockdowns, visiting hours, and to have a place to communicate with others involved with the Illinois prison system.
Well, here we are five years later with the #1 resource for Illinois prison information available on the internet. We've grown to over 8,400 members and 94,000 existing posts in 4,500 topics. We've had over 12 million page views of this website. It's astounding to see our members joining from six different continents and dozens of foreign countries. We've been visited by every state in the Union. Our forum is active 24 hours a day with our international members.
We have gathered the largest photo album of Illinois prison photographs in existence. Our photo and inmate artwork galleries are very popular attractions to guests. The Illinois inmate newsletter "Stateville Speaks" is available for reading online and it brings many visitors to our forum. When we added our Nationwide Inmate Locator to our already existing IDOC, Federal and Cook County locators, we became the best source for inmate information for private citizens and numerous government agencies around the world.
Because our membership boasts many prison-related organizations and prison advocates we are able to network with other groups for positive changes for our inmates. Their outstanding support for our projects is very appreciated. In turn, IPT'ers have supported many other outside projects that have been introduced by our member organizations. We'd like to thank all these groups and individuals for their continued support and input and we pledge our continued support to your organizations.
To all our family members and friends of those incarcerated we thank you for your never-ending loyalty to this forum and to your fellow members. Your participation is what makes IPT a successful combination of current information, resources and amazing support to others as they enter and journey through a difficult situation.
The Administrative Staff would like to thank all our Support Staff members and forum moderators for their time and talents which keep this forum functioning day-to-day.
Thank you to all our members who share so freely their knowledge and experiences.
Our motto at IPT is "Hope". We hope that in each of your lives IPT will help lighten the personal burden which you carry and improve conditions for all our men/women incarcerated in Illinois prisons.
Happy Anniversary IPT'ers.
Your IPT Administrators,
Dazzler
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 10:06:52 AM » |
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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 10:18:43 AM » |
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Congrats on your 5th Anniversary!!! I wish I would of known about this website when my Lo 1st went in but I found you guys about 3 months later and its helped out so much!! Thank you!!
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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 10:34:25 AM » |
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YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the admin team for all your hard work and efforts in keeping IPT the most informative Prison Resource out there!  I love being part of IPT! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2011, 10:50:13 AM » |
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I'd like to thank everyone who takes time from their days to share your experiences, offer support, and give words of encouragement. IPT is a true community, uplifting those who walk the same path we have been down.
And a very special thank you to Dazzler, Forevermah, and all the support staff and moderators! You all are amazing, and I am thankful to count you as part of my family!
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2011, 11:11:58 AM » |
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A very special extra THANK YOU to the administrators of this forum. They make this forum a great place for the lost and confused families of IDOC inmates. Another special thank you to all the support staff and moderators for jumping in and answering questions or just being there for support. To the rest of the members you are not forgotten. With the numerous people who have joined this forum the information IPT provides is a much needed stepping stone for families, loved ones, ex-inmates, advocates and supporters. The daily interaction of everyone helps the forum run rather smoothly on a day to day basis. I am proud and honored to be a support staff member on this wonderful forum.
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2011, 11:26:55 AM » |
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My goodness how this site has grown, and no wonder, because it is so necessary! For myself, and I know for others, it has been, and is, a life saver! Thanks so much for all involved! I am so grateful for IPT. Humbird
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2011, 11:55:00 AM » |
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 IPT!!! Thank you to those who have created this site and to everyone who puts their heart and soul into keeping it alive and thriving!!! IPT means the world to me and so many others!!
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2011, 12:24:11 PM » |
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And a very special thank you to Dazzler, Forevermah, and all the support staff and moderators! You all are amazing, and I am thankful to count you as part of my family!
Ditto....and special thanks to you too Marks Guy as IPT would not exist with the success and growth if it weren't for all your dedicated efforts!!! Likewise my thanks to all those who pay it forward creating a family of support and knowledge in a world many outsiders neither know nor fully understand. I can't even begin to count the hours and stressed nerves I've saved having found IPT. Congratulations on 5 years and may there be many more as long as there is someone out there looking for answers. |
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2011, 01:09:49 PM » |
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I am always so very impressed when I read a thread from somebody who's l/o has just went into IDOC and they have so many questions of the speed, information, and support the admins and members give.
I was once in their place and looking for somewhere to turn, little did I know IPT would become such a huge source of information, support, and even entertainment.
Congratulations on your 5th Anniversary!
I can never thank you enough for what everyone has done for me here.
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2011, 01:14:03 PM » |
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Happy Anniversary! I can't believe it has been five years. Thanks to Dazz, Mah and everyone...IPT is my second home and family. Congratulations.  |
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2011, 01:17:32 PM » |
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IPT family! May you all be blessed and continue to be a blessing to many millions to come.
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2011, 01:21:42 PM » |
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Congraztz on ur fifth anniversary! I'm glad there is such a site to relate to others with what each person is going through, It truly does help... thank you everyone for your hard work and dedication!
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« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2011, 01:58:40 PM » |
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I would like to express my most sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone involved with this site. The admin., support staff, moderators, and members. Your time, effort, and patience is much appreciated by so many people. I am proud to be a part of such a wonderful site with the most caring people anyone will ever meet. Congratulations IPT! |
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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2011, 02:31:22 PM » |
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**Woot Woot** Glad to be apart of such a wonderful site! |
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2011, 06:06:44 PM » |
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Happy Anniversary Indeed! to the administrators, support staff, and many others - all whom provide members a forum filled with support, accurate information, and solidarity. I am proud to be part of IPT.
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2011, 06:10:22 PM » |
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Happy anniversary with out your knowledge i would be crazy by now lol thanks you all for all you do to make this difficult time easier on all of us bless you all!!!
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2011, 07:20:55 PM » |
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I personally would like to thank everyone for being involved in the site. I have learned so much about IDOC and different topics. I have also been able to make new friends who share some of the same experiences as I do. Let's all hope that this site continues to be that guidance for others who have friends and loved ones in any of the IDOC locations.
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« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2011, 07:49:38 PM » |
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My husband did time 10 yrs ago and what a difference it is having IPT now! Thanks for all you do!! 
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« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2011, 09:37:50 PM » |
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Happy Anniversary IPT! I cannot tell you what this most amazing site and people mean to me. I can agree I would be a little nuts right now (well not that I am not somewhat nutty) without the wealth of information, knowledge and amazing people that make this site work everyday! Thank you and here's to many many more years! |
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« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2011, 11:18:52 PM » |
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Thank you for all the support, comfort and understanding you have given to me and all IPT members. I would be lost if IPT was not around.
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« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2011, 11:54:16 PM » |
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Thank You so much for everything! |
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« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2011, 12:48:05 AM » |
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Happy Anniversary IPT...Thanks so much for having all the answers to my questions, your a true help to me and others like me in the same situation...Hope you have five more strong wonderful years 
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Time is the only thing that could ever seperate us from each other..He is truly an angel that was givin' to me as a special gift...MUAH!!!!<3<3<3
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« Reply #26 on: March 03, 2011, 12:00:23 PM » |
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Adding my thanks. IPT has been invaluable. Wish it had been around when we were going through arrest and sentencing, etc. I'm sure we wouldn't have accepted the plea we did had we known then what IPT has taught us over the past five years. And as parole creeps nearer for our l/o, I know there is so much more to learn.
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Hope is the thing with feathers
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« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2011, 02:11:11 PM » |
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5 years??? Wow, how time flies. I remember when I joined, it was in the very early days and I was yet to come to Illinois to visit my inmate. The help and encouragement I received was invaluable and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for that.
Now that I no longer have someone in IDOC, this is still the first site I come to every morning, I feel that I have to keep in touch and keep up with the news etc.
Thanks Dazz and Mah for your unstinting devotion to the guys and girls going through the hell that is IDOC.
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« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2011, 03:35:15 PM » |
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Happy 5 Year Anniversary! I can honestly say that this site has been a blessing. I know that I can come to this site and find info that I would find anywhere else. Everyone here is so accepting and understanding and I don't know that I could go thru this process without this site. Thanks to all that have made it possible! |
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« Reply #29 on: March 03, 2011, 03:41:00 PM » |
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Happy Annivesary IPT. I found this website when my LO first went in while searching for answers about anything...Money Orders, Western Union, Vine you name it. I think I may have gone crazy by now if I hadn't. I'm on today because for the last few days I have been extremely depressed and am sleeping alot or not able to sleep at all. This is the one place I can go day or night and talk about the stuff no one else in my family ever really wants to hear about. I'm sick of seeing the little smirks on their faces so I have isolated myself from almost everyone. Thanks to you all for being here. |
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« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2011, 07:56:48 PM » |
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Just pushing buttons up top and look what I find? It's been a long time since I been here and it's been a long time IPT has been around now. That's great. Congratualtions to Dazz and Mah and everyone else that works so hard here. I'm glad to be back. Gotta check out some more forums. Im lost. LOL.
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« Reply #31 on: March 23, 2011, 09:53:00 AM » |
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Yep I agree with all of the above! I've set my computer up so that it goes to this site before anything else. |
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« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2011, 02:36:39 AM » |
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congrats on ur 5 years
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« Reply #33 on: March 29, 2011, 09:54:39 PM » |
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Congrats! I have been looking at this site for about 5 months now as a guest. There is so much useful information on here, I just had to become a member of the community. |
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« Reply #34 on: March 29, 2011, 09:57:27 PM » |
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Congrats! I have been looking at this site for about 5 months now as a guest. There is so much useful information on here, I just had to become a member of the community. Well, we are glad you finally joined and became a part of the IPT family, take your time and look around, you'll find more information than you thought! |
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« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2011, 11:32:40 AM » |
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THANK YOU AND HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I AM SO VERY GLAD I FOUND IPT! A BLESSING TO ME! LONG LIVE IPT!!
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« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2011, 06:11:45 PM » |
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happy annivsary iii am new at this as well as the computer so please forgive my ignorance can anyone tell me if the goodtime is back for illinois or have you heard about the vote results.
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« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2011, 06:44:11 PM » |
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happy annivsary iii am new at this as well as the computer so please forgive my ignorance can anyone tell me if the goodtime is back for illinois or have you heard about the vote results.
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« Reply #39 on: May 31, 2011, 10:16:06 AM » |
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...."We must keep an eye out for one another
And make an extra effort
To encourage one another...."
Above is what the Mouse story ends with, now this is what IPT stands for, from the very first start 5 years ago!
A Mouse Story
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall
To see the farmer and his wife open a package.
"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered.
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard,
The mouse proclaimed this warning :
"There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched,
Raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse,
I can tell this is a grave concern to you,
But it is of no consequence to me.
I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him,
"There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said,
"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,
But there is nothing I can do about it.
Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said,
"There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you,
But it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house,
Head down and dejected,
To face the farmer's mousetrap... Alone...
That very night
A sound was heard throughout the house
-- the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.
In the darkness, she did not see it.
It was a venomous snake
Whose tail was caught in the trap.
The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital.
When she returned home she still had a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever
With fresh chicken soup.
So, the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
For the soup's main ingredient:
But his wife's sickness continued.
Friends and neighbors
Came to sit with her
Around the clock.
To feed them,
The farmer butchered the pig.
But, alas,
The farmer's wife did not get well...
She died.
So many people came for her funeral
That the farmer had the cow slaughtered
To provide enough meat for all of them
For the funeral luncheon.
And the mouse looked upon it all
From his crack in the wall
With great sadness.
So, the next time you hear
Someone is facing a problem
And you think it doesn't concern you,
Remember ---
When one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life.
We must keep an eye out for one another
And make an extra effort
To encourage one another.
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Great story....a definite copy and paste! Kamama...Hope you have a great B-day, too!!
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« Reply #43 on: July 30, 2011, 04:34:16 PM » |
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5 years! Wow! I wish I had known about this site back then. It has been very helpful to me since I started looking around. Its nice to know I am not alone in this.
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I would like to express my most sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone involved with this site. The admin., support staff, moderators, and members. Your time, effort, and patience is much appreciated by so many people. I am proud to be a part of such a wonderful site with the most caring people anyone will ever meet. Congratulations IPT! I think this says it ALL.. Thanks for helping all of us get through the day's. God Bless each and every one of you. |
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« Reply #45 on: August 01, 2011, 09:55:04 AM » |
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I would like to express my most sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone involved with this site. The admin., support staff, moderators, and members. Your time, effort, and patience is much appreciated by so many people. I am proud to be a part of such a wonderful site with the most caring people anyone will ever meet. Congratulations IPT! I think this says it ALL.. Thanks for helping all of us get through the day's. God Bless each and every one of you. That's very nice!!! |
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Psalm 146:7 (NIV)
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« Reply #46 on: August 02, 2011, 04:14:16 PM » |
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I was with this site 5 years ago when it started and if it had not been for this site I would never have been able to survive and be here today. The support that is here, the experience and the guideness from each and everyone is fantastic. I do my best to help others out that may be going through what I have gone through and let them always know there is a light at the end of a dark tunnel. This is a great and fantastic group they have your back 24/7 and there is no other site like this one around. I love you guys and I am proud to be a hero member and moderator for this group.
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« Reply #47 on: August 06, 2011, 08:39:03 PM » |
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Just want to say thank you to all of you who are behind this website. It gives one the feeling of not being all alone with this pain of having a loved one in the big house.... Thanks for all the info to a newbie on this site, on this side....
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« Reply #48 on: January 05, 2012, 06:03:49 PM » |
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I know I would be lost with out IPT. Thank you for forming it!! |
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« Reply #49 on: January 21, 2012, 11:19:27 AM » |
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I am so thankful I found this site......When I'm down I know I got everyone here.....It reminds me that I'm not alone in this. Thank You for the site!  |
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« Reply #50 on: February 07, 2012, 10:48:51 PM » |
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I somehow feel better already. I am still very concerned about his well being. It seems like tthis is the place to be to know what is going on. Thanks for this site!  happy bday
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« Reply #51 on: February 08, 2012, 07:53:20 AM » |
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Happy anniversary IPT! I am very thankful you are here!!! Without you I would feel completely alone, even more afraid and so lost!
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« Reply #52 on: March 04, 2012, 03:53:47 PM » |
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Thank you IPT for all you do and how well you do it.
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« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2012, 12:30:03 PM » |
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IPT is the best thing available to families of incarcerated people. Invaluable!!! I am so thankful for this site! Keep up the great and much needed work!
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« Reply #54 on: March 05, 2012, 01:40:38 PM » |
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Wow, almost forgot today is our anniversary....congrats to all the members that keep this place going and to all the staff that helps it run smoothly...
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« Reply #55 on: March 05, 2012, 02:48:20 PM » |
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Happy 6th!!! Lord knows you guys keep me sane!!! I dont know what I would do without someone to talk to about al lthe things that no one on the outside would understand! L. |
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« Reply #56 on: March 05, 2012, 02:54:03 PM » |
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Congrats! You guys are amazing! |
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« Reply #57 on: March 05, 2012, 03:37:42 PM » |
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WOW It has been that long? Congratulations IPT! |
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« Reply #58 on: March 05, 2012, 04:09:47 PM » |
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My thoughts exactly Schrader! While the joint years of experiences of our administrators far surpasses mine, IPT's anniversary mirrors the years that I've been involved in the prison system.
With deep gratitude and many thanks....
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« Reply #60 on: March 05, 2012, 07:47:58 PM » |
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" CONGRADULATIONS IPT " And " HAPPY 6TH " ANNV. For all the SUPPORT You've shown and the Lives that you have touched.  God Bless
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« Reply #61 on: March 05, 2012, 11:14:54 PM » |
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Congrats and thank you all for this site and everything you do for all of us.
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« Reply #62 on: March 11, 2012, 06:36:54 PM » |
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6 yrs ago I found my way over here, and this site is amazing, all the hard work that is done, all the BS you guys sometimes have to read ( LOL),,,,,,just wanna tell you how much it's appreciated !!!!!!!
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« Reply #63 on: March 17, 2012, 10:56:34 PM » |
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What you have done is nothing short of amazing
Would love to see a forum on mental health issues and prisons, know NAMI would help
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« Reply #64 on: April 13, 2012, 03:50:07 PM » |
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GREATTTTTTTTTTJob you all did for all of us,..,..,,..,.,.,.,as always BlueMist
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