Compassion drove British sisters to visit Tennessee residents on death row for 30 years

While most of our members write to one penfriend at a time, two of our members, Mary Nordkevelle and Jean Richardson, between them write to 18 different people on death row in the US. Pictured here at the Family Reconciliation Center in Nashville, where you can stay for free when visiting loved ones in prison, the two sisters have been visiting friends on death row in Tennessee for 30 years. Read Evan Mealins’s excellent December 2024 article in the Nashville Tennessean about what motivated them to join LifeLines and how that has led to three decades of letters and visits.