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Ameelio is a non-profit that's building free technology to transform corrections and criminal justice. We've recently launched Letters, our first application…",{"value":59,"source":53,"evidence":60},"Families and loved ones of incarcerated people",[61],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"value":63,"source":53,"evidence":64},"Free to users; funded by donations",[65,69],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"23048254","kruzerkc","Hi I'm Kiran, the finance manager for Ameelio. We are 100% committed to keeping our tools free for users - they're some of the most vulnerable in society and it is a tragedy that…",{"id":70,"by":11,"text":71},"23049396","To be honest the 4 letter cap comment is just in case we run out of funding and is subject to change depending on the situation. This isn't some free trial exploit. 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Thank you.",[99,114],{"value":100,"source":84,"evidence":101},"Naming and branding concerns, such as the headline wording and the name resembling a Latino name",[102,106,110],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"23047304","catlas3r","This is a good cause, but the headline given to this post threw me. Clearly, it's meant as \"make communication between prisoners and their loved ones outside of prison free of…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"23050050","throwaway13239","Awesome mission, wishing you guys all the best. But Ameelio sounds like Emilio. Using latino men's names is probably not the most appropriate idea for this",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"23047086","flyGuyOnTheSly","Just a tip upon first glance... You might want to make the homepage a bit more politically correct by changing up the first (and only?) two incarcerated ethnicities from being…",{"value":115,"source":84,"evidence":116},"Privacy concerns about Zoom ties and use of machine learning",[117,121],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"23048384","rshnotsecure","This is just Zoom. The partners and sponsors almost all conspicuously mention Zoom meetings and Zoom Celebrations on their websites. Especially because of the major WSJ story…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"23049693","downshun","Seems like a worthy goal. Hoping for your success. Some sour negativity for good balance, from someone unfamiliar with criminal systems : Are there mechanisms in place for…",[126,135],{"value":127,"source":53,"evidence":128},"Volunteer developers and contributors",[129,132],{"id":130,"by":11,"text":131},"23047294","We could use all the help we can get. If you'd like, just reach out to our email with what you're interested in helping with or any skills you may have. I'm sure we can figure…",{"id":133,"by":11,"text":134},"23048205","I'm really glad you asked. Initially, the plan was to open source all of our tools. 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