Earned trust · No strings attached

Care shouldn't stop at a locked door.

Counseling, therapy, medication, and every modality we believe in belong inside every institution, for every person. So does daily private contact with the people you love. Redemption needs access — to care, to family, to information, and to the chance to prove you can hold your own life.

Love is the one true universal language. 💚 💙

Full access, everywhere

Everything we're about — available inside.

Every modality, behind every door

Individual counseling, group therapy, EMDR/CPT/PE for trauma, psychiatry and dual-diagnosis prescribing, MAT (buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone), peer recovery support, and grief work — offered inside jails, prisons, hospitals, detox, residential, shelters, and nursing facilities, not just on the outside.

Care that follows the person

One coordinated record of needs and consents that travels with a person through intake, transfer, and release — so nobody restarts from zero and nobody loses a prescription at the door.

Equal access is the standard

Same services, same quality, no matter the charge, the county, the insurance, or the reason someone is inside. Access is not a reward — it is the baseline.

Daily, discreet, dignified

Private time with the people who keep you grounded.

Contact with family is treatment. It lowers misconduct, protects mental health, holds marriages and kids together, and shows up in the data as lower reoffending after release. It should be daily, it should be private, and at the trusted tier it should include a real room with a door — a homelike apartment where a couple can be a couple and a parent can tuck their kids in.

  • Daily voice and video calls at no cost — never sold at a markup, never cut as punishment.
  • Children's contact protected as a right of the child, scheduled around school and bedtime.
  • Comfortable visiting rooms: soft seating, play areas, food, natural light.
  • Family apartments for extended, unmonitored overnight visits at the trusted tier — including intimacy with a spouse or partner.
  • Reentry planning done with the family in the room, months before the door opens.

Our facility line

People inside can call us directly. The line takes the call, captures what's needed, and starts coordination — care, records, family contact, legal help.

(844) 360-0359

Toll-free. No strings attached. Family and staff can call it too.

Niagara County Jail was the first door, not the boundary — the same request is going to every facility on earth.

See how coordination works

💎 Global standard · Every door

Not just one jail. Every facility, every country, same 💎 level.

1 (844) 360-0359 started with one county because that is where the first person needed it. The rollout runs in waves until the line rings free from inside every jail, prison, hospital, detention center, shelter and care facility on the planet — with the identical letter, policy pack and offer of help going to each one.

Look up an approved facility Separated-families FAQ & disclaimers

Wave 1 — Home county, first door

Niagara and Erie County, Western New York

  • Niagara County Jail
  • Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility
  • Local police lockups, hospitals, detox and residential programs

Where it started. Sent, tracked and followed up — not the finish line.

Wave 2 — Every state and territory

All 50 US states, DC, and the territories

  • Every state department of corrections and juvenile justice agency
  • All ~3,000 county and city jails
  • Federal Bureau of Prisons, US Marshals contract facilities, ICE detention
  • State hospitals, forensic units, and locked treatment settings

Statewide approvals first, because one signature can open hundreds of doors at once.

Wave 3 — Phone and tablet providers

The companies that actually control the dial tone

  • Securus / Aventiv
  • ViaPath (GTL)
  • NCIC, CityTel, Legacy, Combined Public Communications
  • Tablet vendors running education and messaging platforms

Free-call list placement at the provider level makes the line free everywhere they operate.

Wave 4 — Every country, every language

International custodial and care systems

  • Canada (CSC and every provincial service), UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand
  • EU member state prison administrations and the Council of Europe CPT network
  • Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific — ministry by ministry
  • Hospitals, psychiatric facilities, shelters and nursing homes worldwide

A local number or WhatsApp/SIP bridge is provisioned wherever toll-free from the US is blocked, so cost never decides who gets through.

Wave 5 — Oversight and standards bodies

The people who write the rules

  • UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Nelson Mandela Rules monitors
  • National preventive mechanisms and prison ombudsman offices
  • Accreditation bodies for jails, hospitals and treatment programs
  • Public defender, legal aid and family court systems

Access to an advocacy line becomes a written standard, not a favor granted facility by facility.

Rules that travel with the line

One request, one standard: every facility on earth gets the same letter, the same policy pack, and the same offer of help — no tiering by country, budget or reputation.

The call is always free to the person inside and to their family. If a provider will not carry toll-free, DBATR pays for a local number instead.

Interpretation on the line in the caller’s language, not the institution’s.

Nothing about the person is shared with the facility. The call belongs to the caller.

Refusals are published with dates and named offices, not hidden. Silence for 30 days escalates to oversight bodies.

Follow-ups run automatically forever. A no today is a re-ask next quarter.

Help for their families too

One person goes inside. A whole household takes the hit.

The family outside did nothing and pays anyway — rent, rides, phone bills, kids asking questions at bedtime. They get the same care, the same coordination, and the same 💎 standard as the person inside, in every country, whether or not the person inside ever asks for it.

Keep the lights on and the door open

The income usually leaves with the person. We cover the gap so a family never loses housing over an absence they did not choose.

  • Rent, mortgage, utility and phone arrears paid directly to the biller
  • Groceries, diapers, formula, school clothes and holidays covered
  • Eviction defense and licensee-removal help when someone else moves in on the home
  • Rides to visits, court, school and appointments — no cost, no questions

Care for the people left holding it together

Partners, parents and grandparents raising kids alone carry a trauma load nobody screens for. They get the same clinical care we put behind every door.

  • Counseling and trauma therapy for the partner, parent or caregiver at no cost
  • Children's therapy and school advocacy — IEPs, absences, bullying about a parent inside
  • Grief, anger and parenting groups built for families with someone inside
  • Respite and childcare so a caregiver can work, sleep or breathe

Contact is a family right, not a purchase

Families should never be billed to hear a voice. Every cost of contact sits on our side of the table.

  • Calls, video visits and messaging paid for by DBATR when a provider still charges
  • Visit travel, lodging and fuel covered, including cross-state and cross-border trips
  • Children's calls scheduled around school and bedtime, protected as the child's right
  • Interpretation in the family’s language on every call and every document

Paperwork, money and the record

One coordinator handles the whole administrative avalanche so a family is not fighting six agencies alone.

  • Benefits, Medicaid, SNAP, housing and disability applications filed and chased
  • Child support modified to actual income while someone is inside — never punitive arrears
  • Custody, guardianship and visitation filings prepared for a human signature
  • Property, vehicles, pets and belongings protected while the person is away

Reentry starts the first week, not the last

The family is in the room from day one, because they are the plan.

  • Housing, work, treatment and transport lined up months before release
  • Family reunification counseling before and after the door opens
  • Cash, clothes, ID, phone and a first-month cushion on release day
  • A standing line for the family if anything wobbles afterward, forever

How family help works — no strings attached

Help for the family never depends on the charge, the conviction, the plea, or whether the case is still open.

No income checks, no waiting lists, no proof of relationship beyond the family telling us who they are.

Nothing a family tells us goes to the facility, the prosecutor, the court, or child protective services.

Victims’ families get the exact same care, at the same time, with no comparison drawn between them.

If the person inside never asks, the family still gets everything. Support is not conditional on their behavior.

Same standard in every country and every language — a family in Lagos, Liverpool or Lockport is served identically.

Families can call 1 (844) 360-0359 directly — same line, same day, no account and no case number needed.

The honor system

Earning the right to run your own life — on paper, in writing, for everyone.

This is the modern version of what facilities already call incentives and earned privileges: a published ladder where conduct, program participation, and responsibility to others move you up — and where the floor is care and family, never a bargaining chip.

Tier 1 — Baseline (never earned, never removed)

  • Medical, dental, mental health, and medication-assisted treatment
  • Daily phone or video contact with children, partner, and family
  • Legal calls, mail, religious practice, outdoor time, and safe sleep
  • Literacy, GED, and library access

Tier 2 — Steady (30 days of showing up)

  • Personal tablet time: courses, music, books, video calls
  • Extended and longer-duration visits, including weekend slots
  • Food choice: commissary credits, family food packages, shared cooking nights
  • Program leadership roles, work assignments, and paid trade training

Tier 3 — Trusted (sustained conduct + program completion)

  • Private, unmonitored family time in a comfortable apartment-style unit — including intimacy with a spouse or partner, with dignity and no audience
  • Overnight family visits with children in a homelike setting
  • Furloughs, day release, work release, and community program passes
  • Own-phone privileges, self-scheduled calls, mentorship stipends

Rules of the ladder

Rewards are earned by conduct, not bought — and points can't be sold, traded, or taken as punishment for someone else's behavior.

Written criteria, posted publicly. Every person knows exactly what earns the next tier and exactly what forfeits it.

Loss of a privilege is time-limited and appealable, with a clear path back. Nothing is permanent.

Never restrict care, family contact with children, or legal access as a sanction. Those are Tier 1 forever.

Staff and residents sit on the same review board. Recognition of the people doing the work of keeping the system safe is built into the model.

Behavior data is used to coach, not to build a file that follows someone forever.

Where substances come into it — honestly

Medically supervised, lawfully handled, or not at all.

We'll say the quiet part plainly: prescribed medication is care, and pretending otherwise kills people. Buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone, and psychiatric medication must be continued inside and at release. Where a jurisdiction lawfully allows medical cannabis, a person shouldn't lose a valid prescription at the door. Beyond that, alcohol and recreational use are not privileges we advocate inside a facility — for people in withdrawal or early recovery they're a medical risk, not a reward. Managed alcohol and harm-reduction programs exist and work, but they belong under clinical supervision in the health system, with prescribers and monitoring — not handed out as points on a behavior chart.

Time, art, and skill

A better way to use the time you have.

The arts, taken seriously

Studio art, murals, instruments and recording, writing workshops, theater, and photography — with real teachers, real supplies, and public showings so work leaves the building even when the artist can't yet.

Education that transfers

GED through accredited college credit and licensed trades — welding, HVAC, electrical, solar install, CDL, culinary — with credentials that are valid the day someone walks out.

Time used well

Structured days: care in the morning, work or class midday, fitness and creative time in the evening, family contact at night. Idle time is the injury; a full day is the treatment.

Programs of every shape and size

Parenting, financial literacy, business and personal-skill labs, anger and grief groups, faith circles, service-dog training, garden and green-energy crews — available everywhere, not only in showcase facilities.

What the research says

Proof, not promises.

Reward systems work when they're transparent

Systematic reviews of prison reward and contingency-management systems find behavior improves when criteria are clear, rewards are meaningful, and delivery is consistent — and backfires when they feel arbitrary.

Family contact lowers misconduct and recidivism

Research on family contact during incarceration links regular visits and calls to less in-facility misconduct, better mental health, and lower reoffending after release.

Nordic-style contact and housing models

Oversight reporting from Norwegian facilities shows generous phone, video, and visit access — including family apartments — is operationally workable, not fantasy.

Treatment inside saves lives

Medication for opioid use disorder continued through incarceration and release sharply reduces post-release overdose death — the most preventable death in the whole system.

Sources include systematic reviews of prison reward and contingency-management systems, research on family contact during incarceration, Norwegian oversight reporting on inmate contact with family and friends, and outcomes data on medication for opioid use disorder continued through incarceration and release.

For the needs of the many

Redemption needs access.

Thank you to the people who do the work — the staff, the counselors, the officers, the volunteers, the families holding the line at home. This model only works with you, not around you. If you run a facility, a program, or a court, we'll build this with you and bring the tech, the coordination, and the care.

No strings attached. DBATR, IS 💙4U