BEHIND BARS TECH
WritingSponsorTOOLS FOR PEOPLE + ADVOCATES

Tools for people inside,
and the people who stand with them.

We build practical, privacy-first software for incarcerated people, their families, defenders, journalists, and reentry organizations — never for surveillance, punishment, or extraction.

  • Letter forwarding and scanning for people without email
  • Private family video calls without recording or minute traps
  • Reentry planning that works offline on low-cost tablets
  • FOIA workflows for jail-death and custody records
  • Secure messaging between lawyers and incarcerated clients
  • Public dashboards for county jail mortality
  • Family check-in tools that answer urgent custody questions without a maze of phone calls

The refusal ledger What we will not build, and the buyer who asked for each — read the ledger.

Request our help

If you run a defender's office, reentry organization, newsroom, or family-justice nonprofit and want help building or maintaining open infrastructure, write us.

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