Proposing, meeting your child hours after it was born, seeing your parents’ faces for the first time in a decade – all from inside a prison.
People in custody have been offered a lifeline during the pandemic – a newly launched software which allows them to video call loved ones when face-to-face visits to prisons were banned during lockdown.
Thetford-founded software business Made Purple launched Purple Visits across every prison and young offenders site at the onset of the pandemic last year, and since then has seen more than 320,000 calls take place on its platform.
Made Purple is based at Keystone Innovation Centre in Thetford
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And while monitoring the security and nature of the calls closely, the team of 18 behind the Thetford-based business have seen how their work has had an “immeasurable impact” on users.
Founder George Kyriacou explained: “Via the platform we’ve seen people propose to those in custody – one in particular got down on one knee on New Year’s Eve. We’ve had a father virtually meet his child within hours of…
