Before Walter Price’s cousin died in a Baltimore City jail, Price remembers hearing from him. “One of last things he said to me was, ‘I feel like I was forgotten,'” Price said.
While serving his own 10-year sentence at Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown, Md., Price saw how hearing from family and friends helped inmates maintain a connection. The Baltimore native had been an entrepreneur before with a towing company and mobile car wash, and saw the potential to help others.
“When I came out, I was determined to do something for that community,” he said.
But even as he saw the entrepreneurship spurred by the app economy, the letter from his cousin stayed with him. With letters still the primary way to communicate with inmates, but he found a way to use technology to make the process easier — with Jail Mail.
Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore
from http://baltimoretech.org/news/this-app-helps-inmates-stay-connected-with-friends-and-family-its-founder-knows-the-struggle/
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