Walk out with a blueprint, not just a bus ticket

GBB Inside is a cell-ready school built for incarcerated men — covering identity, documents, family, employment, supervision, and a written 90-day plan, all completed before your release date.

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"You don't need more motivation — you need a plan you built yourself, finished before the gate opens."

— CEO Jae

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

Build a clear sense of personal identity and values that exists independently of your case or your charge.
Map every document, housing option, and parole condition you need to research and secure before your release date.
Write letters and have real conversations that begin rebuilding trust with family, co-parents, and loved ones from inside.
Create a print-ready résumé, practice answering the background question with confidence, and understand fair-chance hiring laws in your state.
Read and interpret your supervision conditions, know what your PO expects on day one, and prepare the right questions before you leave.
Complete a written 30/60/90-day release plan with housing backups, milestone targets, and a day-one checklist — finished before you walk out.

How it works

A school that adapts to you

This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.

We learn your level

A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.

Lessons adapt as you go

Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.

Your AI coach keeps you moving

Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.

The curriculum

What's inside your school

11 modules · 66 lessons

Who You Are Beyond Your Case

Rebuilds personal identity, core values, and life narrative so your sense of self is grounded in who you are — not what you're charged with.

1.1You Are Not Your ChargeIncluded
1.2Your Core Values, Named and OwnedIncluded
1.3The Story You Tell YourselfIncluded
1.4Purpose Under PressureIncluded
1.5Your Strengths InventoryIncluded
1.6Writing Your Own NarrativeIncluded

Know Your Release Blueprint

Walks through every document, housing record, and parole condition you can research and begin securing from inside before your release date.

2.1The Documents You Need — and Where to StartIncluded
2.2How to Request Records From InsideIncluded
2.3Housing Options You Can Research Before ReleaseIncluded
2.4Understanding Your Parole or Probation ConditionsIncluded
2.5Benefits Eligibility You Can Prep Before the GateIncluded
2.6Your Pre-Release Action ListIncluded

Family & Relationships: Rebuilding From the Inside

Equips you with the communication tools and trust-rebuilding strategies to strengthen family bonds across distance — before you walk out.

3.1Why Relationships Break Down During IncarcerationIncluded
3.2Letters That Actually LandIncluded
3.3Difficult Conversations Across DistanceIncluded
3.4Co-Parenting From the InsideIncluded
3.5Rebuilding Trust: What It Takes and How LongIncluded
3.6Setting Healthy Expectations for HomecomingIncluded

Employment Readiness Before Day One

Prepares you to enter the job market with a finished résumé, a confident background question answer, and working knowledge of fair-chance hiring laws.

4.1What Employers Actually See When They Search Your NameIncluded
4.2Fair-Chance Hiring Laws: Know Your Rights by StateIncluded
4.3Building Your Résumé From InsideIncluded
4.4Answering the Background Question With ConfidenceIncluded
4.5Interview Mindset and First Impression SkillsIncluded
4.6Industries and Employers Who Hire Returning CitizensIncluded

Legal Rights, Supervision & What to Expect

Demystifies your supervision conditions, your rights under parole or probation, and exactly what your PO expects from the moment you walk out.

5.1Types of Supervision: Parole, Probation, and Mandatory ReleaseIncluded
5.2Reading Your Conditions of Release — Word by WordIncluded
5.3What Your PO Expects on Day OneIncluded
5.4Your Rights During SupervisionIncluded
5.5Violations: What Triggers Them and How to Avoid ThemIncluded
5.6Questions to Ask Before You Leave the FacilityIncluded

Your 90-Day Plan: Mapped Before You Walk Out

Guides you through building a complete, written 30/60/90-day release plan — with housing backups, milestone targets, and a day-one checklist — finished before you leave.

6.1Why Most People Don't Plan — and What It Costs ThemIncluded
6.2Your Day-One ChecklistIncluded
6.3Your First 30 Days: Stability Before Everything ElseIncluded
6.4Days 31–60: Building MomentumIncluded
6.5Days 61–90: Locking In the Long GameIncluded
6.6Contingencies and Backup PlansIncluded

Financial Foundations After Release

Practical money skills for the first 90 days and beyond — banking, budgeting, debt, and building a financial floor from zero.

7.1Opening a Bank Account With a RecordIncluded
7.2Building a Release-Day BudgetIncluded
7.3Understanding and Rebuilding Your CreditIncluded
7.4Debt, Court Fines, and Supervision FeesIncluded
7.5Getting to Your First Paycheck: Short-Term Financial SurvivalIncluded
7.6Long-Term Financial Goals: Saving, Investing, and Building Wealth From ZeroIncluded

Mental Health & Emotional Resilience

Tools for managing trauma, stress, and emotional triggers during reentry — without clinical jargon, without stigma.

8.1What Incarceration Does to the Mind and BodyIncluded
8.2Identifying Your Triggers Before They Identify YouIncluded
8.3Coping Strategies That Don't Require a TherapistIncluded
8.4When to Ask for Help and How to Find ItIncluded
8.5Building Emotional Resilience for the Long RunIncluded
8.6Managing Anger and Conflict Without ReoffendingIncluded

Community, Support Networks & Peer Accountability

How to build and use a real support network — the people, programs, and accountability structures that make reentry stick.

9.1Who Should Be in Your Circle — and Who Shouldn'tIncluded
9.2Finding Reentry Programs and Peer Support GroupsIncluded
9.3How to Use a Mentor Without Burning Them OutIncluded
9.4Being an Accountability Partner to Someone ElseIncluded
9.5Building Community After Long IsolationIncluded
9.6Giving Back: How Returning Citizens Become Community LeadersIncluded

Technology & Digital Readiness

10.1Using a Smartphone and Computer for the First Time in YearsIncluded
10.2Email, Job Applications, and Digital CommunicationIncluded
10.3Online Safety: Scams, Privacy, and Protecting YourselfIncluded
10.4Social Media: What Helps and What Can Hurt Your ReentryIncluded
10.5Digital ID, Online Benefits, and Government PortalsIncluded
10.6Free Tech Resources Available to Returning CitizensIncluded

Faith, Meaning & Long-Term Identity

11.1Finding Meaning After IncarcerationIncluded
11.2Faith Without a FormulaIncluded
11.3Forgiveness: What It Is and What It Isn'tIncluded
11.4Who You Are Becoming: Long-Term Identity WorkIncluded
11.5Staying Grounded When Life Tries to Pull You BackIncluded
11.6Your Legacy: The Life You Are Building From HereIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

The man preparing for release

He wants to walk out with more than good intentions — he needs a written plan, a clear identity, and real answers about what comes next.

The partner or spouse on the outside

She's holding things together and wants to give him something concrete — a school that prepares him for the real work of coming home.

The parent or grandparent

She wants her son or grandson to have every possible tool before release, and she's willing to purchase and mail it herself to make sure he does.

The reentry navigator or case manager

He works with returning citizens daily and needs a structured, print-ready curriculum he can put directly in clients' hands while they're still inside.

The public defender or advocate

She sees clients leave unprepared every week and wants a resource she can recommend — or purchase — that actually addresses identity, planning, and rights together.

The recently released man in the first 90 days

He's already out but didn't plan before release — the 90-day framework and employment readiness sections give him a structure to catch up and build forward.

Questions

Frequently asked

Your teacher

A note from your teacher

CEO Jae

I know what it feels like to watch a release date get closer and realize you don't have a real plan. Not a pamphlet — a plan. One that covers where you'll sleep, what you'll say to your kids, how you'll answer the question on a job application, and who you actually are now that you've had time to think about it. That gap — between walking out and being ready to walk out — is exactly what GBB Inside was built to close.

Here's the truth: the system will not hand you a blueprint. It will hand you conditions, restrictions, and maybe a list of resources. What it will not do is sit down with you and ask who you are, what you value, what your strengths are, and how you're going to use the next 30, 60, and 90 days to build something real. That part is on you. This school is how you do that part.

Everything inside GBB is designed to be done from a cell. No screen. No app. No internet access required. You work through the lessons with a pen and the pages in front of you. You name your values. You draft your résumé. You write the letter you've been putting off. You map your housing backups. You read your supervision conditions and write down the questions you need answered before you leave. By the time you finish, you have a complete, written 30/60/90-day release plan — built by you, for your specific situation.

I also want to speak directly to the families, advocates, and reentry professionals reading this: you matter in this process. One of the most powerful things a person on the outside can do is put these lessons in someone's hands while they're still inside. You can purchase GBB Inside and mail it. That act alone — saying "I believe you can do this work, and here are the tools" — is part of the foundation this school is built on.

This school does not talk down to men. It does not treat incarceration as the whole story of a person's life. It starts from the belief that you are already capable of doing this work — and that with the right structure, the right questions, and the right plan in your hands, you can walk out ready. Not just out. Ready. That's what GBB Inside is for. I'm glad you're here.