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Ameelio is a technology non-profit which provides free communications and educational tools for incarcerated communities and their relatives. It is the first non-profit telecommunications company to provide free prison communication services in the United States.[1][2]

History

Ameelio was co-founded in 2020 by two Yale students, Uzoma "Zo" Orchingwa and Gabriel Saruhashi, to allow incarcerated people in the United States to access free communications services.[3][4][5][6] Orchingwa and Saruhashi were motivated to found the organization because of the extremely high cost and inaccessibility of communications in prison,[7][8] which worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] At launch, it allowed users to send photos and physical print-outs of digital letters to inmates,[10] it later expanded its services to include teleconferencing.[11] The organization received funding from Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, Vinod Khosla, Kevin P. Ryan, Rich Barton, Devin Wenig, and Jack Smith.[12][13]

Ameelio currently supports free communications for incarcerated individuals and their families in the states of Iowa, Colorado, and Maine.[14][15]

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