How You Can Help

Support Chantal with Letters

Emails to helpfreechantal@yahoo.com will be printed and mailed to Chantal, who loves getting your mail.

Please send cards and letters to Chantal at the following address:

Chantal McCorkle 23033-018
FMC Carswell
P.O. Box 27137
Ft. Worth, TX 76127

Books

Chantal loves to read, especially about travel and exercise. She may receive books ordered only through Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com. Books must be shipped from the seller directly to Chantal at FMC Carswell. Once she reads them, her books are donated to the prison library for others to enjoy. Chantal is not permitted to receive books (or magazines) that are not ordered through the above-mentioned websites.

Monetary Contributions

If you would like to support Chantal with monetary contributions to her prison account, please send a money order (no cash or personal checks) to the following Iowa address:

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Chantal McCorkle, 23033-018
P.O. Box 474701
Des Moines, IA 50947-0001

Funds may also be sent via Western Union ($9.95 fee for all transactions) from anywhere in the world: WesternUnion.com
1. Select Bill Payment
2. Select Quick Collect
3. Indicate Chantal McCorkle as the recipient and be sure to include her ID# 23033-018. The City Code is FBOP. The State Code is DC.

With these funds, Chantal is able to procure items from the commissary (packaged food, personal hygiene items, etc). Funds in her account can also be used for phone calls to family and friends. Although Chantal works each day and is paid by the prison, the hourly rate is minimal.

Campaign for Treaty Transfer

The Slough Observer, Chantal's local paper in the UK, has launched a campaign to Bring Chantal Home serve the remainder of her sentence in the UK. Those wishing to add their support should email Samantha Matthew: smatthew@sloughobserver.co.uk

Help us spread the word!
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Speak Out!

Submit an editorial or testimonial for publication on this website.

Email your contribution to helpfreechantal@yahoo.com. (Please indicate if your name or any part of your email should not be published.)

Read what others have written in the Speak Out! section.

Sign our Petition

We, the undersigned, believe that the 24 year, 4 month sentence for Chantal McCorkle is unjust and excessive. We also believe the time she has already served in Federal prison, along with forfeiting all of her worldly assets, more than repays society for any wrongs she may have unwittingly committed. We call upon the President of the United States, in the name of justice and humanity, to grant Chantal McCorkle a full pardon and to release her from prison immediately.

To sign, please email your name and address to helpfreechantal@yahoo.com.

Write to Politicians

Let them know that Chantal's imprisonment is unacceptable.

Below is a sample letter that you may use in whole or in part. Please cut and paste to your computer or into an email. Contact legislators, politicians, people with government connections...anyone you can think of who might be able to help secure a Presidential Pardon for Chantal McCorkle.

Following the letter are links to contact information.

Honorable [enter name]:

I am hoping you will be as interested and outraged as I am with Chantal McCorkle’s patently unjust sentence of 24 years, 4 months, no parole. In 1998, she was convicted in Federal court in Orlando, Florida, along with her husband, William McCorkle, for money laundering and fraud stemming from William’s infomercial on how to buy foreclosure real estate.

As you know, Federal statues for Mandatory Minimum Sentencing and Money Laundering were enacted by Congress in the 80’s as part of President Reagan’s War on Drugs and Firearms. These laws were never intended to be used for victimless, white collar crimes. To make this case even more troubling and the sentence even more outrageous, British born and raised Chantal is a victim of her husband and lawyer F. Lee Bailey, not a criminal herself. She never knowingly or with intent committed any crime. Since she is not a criminal, she was unable to negotiate any agreement with the prosecutors, not that her lawyers ever offered her one. Throughout the trial, she was told repeatedly that she had nothing to worry about since it was William’s business. Bailey never discussed a settlement with the government or even told Chantal what she faced.

I beg you to take a few minutes to investigate this injustice. There is a web site with more information at www.freechantal.com. This is another case of Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing gone wrong. Something needs to be done, and you are in a position to do it.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[please sign]

Politician Contact Links

Congressional Email Directory - email addresses and websites by state
Contacting the Congress - email addresses, websites, and phone numbers

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