The startup taking down corrupt prison communications | Uzoma Orchingwa | Ameelio
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77% of prisoners in the US will be rearrested within 5 years of their release. One of the biggest predictors of whether a recently released inmate will reoffend is how well they are able to maintain communication with friends and family members.

Research has shown that the more contact a prisoner has with people in the outside world, the less likely they are to re-enter the prison system after release.

The simple solution to the high recidivism rate in the US would seem to be to increase a prisoner’s communication to the outside world. But the harsh, unfortunate reality is that prison communication is inaccessible for most prisoners and their families.

Phone calls, the primary mode of prison communication, are prohibitively expensive for incarcerated people. A third of inmates’ families go into debt just by staying in touch.

That’s why, in 2020, Yale students Uzoma “Zo” Orchingwa and Gabe Saruhashi founded Ameelio, an app that allows inmates and their families to call each other for free.

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