PRIVATE DRAFT — for founder review only. Not published.
For Defendants & Families

You're not the first
person to face this.

Whatever stage you're at — a letter you weren't expecting, a sentencing date on the calendar, or a surrender date approaching — there are people who have walked this exact road and came back to help.

Photo — a family, together

What we actually do

Your attorney handles the case. We handle everything else — what happens to you, what happens to your family, and what happens to the life you're leaving behind for a while.

That includes the questions people are too embarrassed to ask a lawyer they're paying by the hour. What is the food like. Will I be safe. Who tells my kids. What happens to the house. How do I not lose my marriage.

Every one of our founders has been through federal custody. When we tell you what intake feels like, it isn't secondhand.

Wherever you are

People come to us at very different moments.

Just contacted

Under Investigation

A target letter, or a knock on the door. The highest-leverage moment in the entire process — and almost nobody uses it well.

Awaiting sentencing

Charged or Pleading

The presentence report is being written, and it will follow you into custody. We help build the record and correct the errors.

You have a date

Preparing to Surrender

Designation advocacy, facility-specific preparation, and getting your affairs in order. Most of the panic here is avoidable.

Someone is inside

Currently in Custody

First Step Act credits, RDAP, transfers, and problems at the institution. Families often have more power to help than they realize.

Release is coming

Approaching Reentry

Halfway house, supervised release, employment, housing, benefits. The first ninety days determine a great deal.

You're the family

Supporting Someone

Visitation, phone and mail rules, money, and how to explain this to children. You're carrying this too.

The part nobody warns you about

A sentence threatens more than your time.

A federal sentence puts your mortgage, custody arrangement, health coverage, business, credit, and access to your own accounts at risk. Most of that damage is preventable — but only if it's handled before you surrender.

Life Continuity is a structured checklist covering power of attorney, housing, debt, healthcare, identity documents and release planning — run by a coordinator who does this for a living rather than a family figuring it out in a panic.

See what it covers

Talk to someone who has been there.

A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Reach out