The app has connected more than 170,000 families, and employers have started to use it to...
"'Marcus, I'm going to write you a letter or send you a picture every day for the remaining six years of this prison sentence just so you can feel the love and that you are cared for and that there's life waiting for you on the other side of this fence,'" Bullock recalls his mother saying."And that is what set me up for potential success before I came home."
Bullock's experience is what led him to become the founder and CEO of Flikshop, an app that allows users to send personalized photos and messages via postcard to anyone who's incarcerated in the U.S.are on the approved faclities list, including Harris County's Baker Street Jail. The app has connected more than 170,000 families, Bullock said, and employers have started to use it to let inmates know the opportunities they may have waiting for them upon release.
Bullock said the mission is all about reducing the number of incarcerated individuals who return to prison. "If we want to be able to lower that rate of recidivism, then we have to be thoughtful about how we introduce family connections and opportunities, social capital, resources back to these people well before they come home."
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