The Once Fallen 2025 Annual Report

 The Once Fallen 2025 Annual Report

In recent years, OnceFallen has pivoted away from front-line activism and towwards resource gathering for those new to the registry or will be forced to register upon release. However, the changes to Corrlinks at the direction of the the federal Bureau of Prisons put a huge dent in assistance requests in 2025. In September 2024, the BOP began placing strict limitations on mass emails, effectively ending newsletters utilizing the Corrlinks email service. Furthermore, Wisconsin moved away from Corrlinks and onto “GettingOut/GTL, which for some reason, never seems to work for me. As a result, requests & inquiries to OnceFallen fell by just over a third from 2024. 

Major Accomplishments for 2025:

1. Completed and published the Anti-Registry Activist Survey
2. Completed and posted the 2025 (5th Ed.) of Your Life on The List on the front page of OnceFallen.
3. Created spreadsheets for local-level restrictions for Florida, Maine, Nebraska, Texas, and Wisconsin. 
4. Testified before the Nebraska legislature, and wrote opposition statements to Florida & Maine.
5. Got one OpEd published in Portland, ME newspaper challenging local residency restriction proposals.   

First Contacts Stats:

Grand total: 441 persons (Down from 706 in 2024; -265  or 37.5% decrease)

By communication type:

• Email: 180
• Letter: 130
• Phone: 58
• Corrlinks: 38
• Text: 28
• Facebook: 6
• SmartInmate: 1

By State/Country:

At least one person in 44 states plus DC, 2 US Territories, and one person from Canada reached out to OnceFallen in 2025:

• IN: 41
• FL: 29
• TX: 23
• PA: 22
• IL: 19
• CA: 18, UT: 18
• MO, WI: 14
• AL: 13
• GA: 11
• MI, OH: 10
• KS, NC: 9
• SC: 8
• AR, NY: 7
• VA: 5
• ID, MA: 4
• WA: 4
• AZ, CO, CT, DE: 3
• NM, NV: 3
• TN: 3
• KY, MS, ND, NE, NJ, OR: 2
• AK, Canada, DC, IA, LA, MD, ME, MN, NH, OK, PR, VI, WV: 1
• HI, MT, RI, SD, VT, & WY: 0

Reasons for reaching out to OnceFallen:

• Housing: 151
• General info or Miscellaneous Issues: 104
• Your life on The List (YLOTL) book: 49
• Activism/Advocacy/Information Sharing: 31
• Specific State/Territory Law: 24
• Legal Assistance/Appeals/Attorneys/Registry Relief/Request for free materials: 21
• Life on the List (LOTL) Newsletters: 19
• Single Law issue: 15
• Civil Commitment/Prisoner Issues/PO/SO treatment issues: 12
• Harassment/Scam/Vigilante Issues: 4

By Month:

• January: 56
• February: 41
• March: 38
• April: 34
• May: 47
• June: 27
• July: 38
• August: 36
• September: 28
• October: 35
• November: 23
• December: 38

Total letters: Many prisoners write multiple times. There were 130 individuals who contacted OnceFallen by mail but there were 190 total letters. 

New Contact by mail: 130 (down from 159 in 2024; -29 or 18.2% decrease)

Total Letters: 190 (down from 270 in 2024; -80 or 29.6% decrease)

Corrlinks Subscribers: 911 (down from 1381 in 2024, -470 or a 34% decrease), note that ALL are now federal or military; none are state-level subscribers.

Financial Support for OnceFallen did improve over previous years (upby about 25% from 2024) but they were relatively larger donations from a small number of donors.