![]() My uncle, my brother, and my best friend’s uncle all came home from prison. Why don’t returning citizens talk about their prison experience post-release?īullock: It’s taboo. ![]() Giving someone a manual is not going to do that on an on a broader scale. Returning Citizens need three things: identification, employment, and housing immediately. What are the day one needs of a returning citizen?īullock: The expectation is for these men and women that have been behind bars for weeks, months, years, and some even decades to come home and be successful in a brand-new world unrecognizable to them. Flikshop will partner with these organizations and these agencies to ensure that every person that’s coming home from prison what to do for success. We recently sat down with Bullock to discuss his phenomenal business success, but more importantly, how everyone can help successful reentry become the norm and make recidivism the exception.īullock: Our goal is to create a natural pathway for communication for them back to the real world before they come home. Prioritizing reentry well before release is the key to Bullock’s masterplan to realign America’s fractured criminal justice system.” I want to change the entire world’s perception of formerly incarcerated people,” he says, “and be instrumental in creating an infrastructure specifically outfitted to help them successfully transition back into society.” ![]() The app has attracted a number of celebrity investors, including John Legend and Baron Davis.īullock has also launched the Flikshop School of Business, an initiative that provides entrepreneurial and life skills essential for a return to a society that demands a former inmate find employment, but refuses to grant it for being a former inmate. ![]() The messages are printed out as picture postcards and mailed to inmates at 2,200 prisons and jails around the country. Flikshop allows people to send messages and pictures to those who are incarcerated for 99 cents apiece. ![]()
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