The US has an active network of prison pen pals arranged over Facebook where lonely or bored inmates, desperate for a connection to someone on the outside post adverts on the group. They do so in ...

In a 15-second TikTok video, a blonde woman in a white T-shirt appears. She asks for men or women to reach out to her if they’d “like to talk” and, at the end, blows a kiss to the camera.