Created inside a jail cell in Chicago

2 Brothers, 1 Dream.

Last year, my older brother Raza Zaidi, a renown dog training, business owner, and nationally ranked banker, was arrested. He was placed into a maximum division in the Cook County Dept. of Corrections where he is still being held without bail, awaiting trial.

This was my families first time going through the system. My name is Asim Zaidi, I've developed software technology at some of the biggest companies in the world and I studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Even, I struggled to figure out how to help my brother. Simple things like figuring out how to visit him, how to mail him, how to talk to him, how to send him money for food and clothes, were so unbearably difficult. I help several families every week with these simple tasks because the technology for incarcerations is simply outdated and hard to use.
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Raza was a soul full of life on the outside, anyone that knows him knows how he would drop anything to help the people he cared about. But when Raza was arrested, no one really reached out, no one has really helped my family. I believe there's a common misconception that people don't care about people locked up. That's not true. People care about Raza. They just don't know where to begin to help, they don't understand how to help, and they don't understand the situation.

jail.app is here to address all of these problems and more. We want to empower families during this tough time so they don't have to deal with any additional stress. On top of that, we hope to curate innovative tools along with a vibrant community to give people a better fighting chance through the system.
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