CLM8 is a civic technology platform designed to improve transparency, preparedness, and understanding across the United States correctional system. It lets people who have directly interacted with prisons, jails, detention centers, and correctional programs contribute structured, anonymized information about their experiences.
CLM8 is not intended to become a traditional rating or complaint platform. Instead, it transforms individual experiences into organized, moderated, aggregated information that helps people understand how facilities operate, prepare for interactions with them, identify recurring patterns, and improve programs over time.
Standardized questions and measurable experience categories, not open-ended accusations or emotionally driven ratings.
A person may privately verify their identity or connection to a facility while remaining anonymous to the public.
Users may not publicly identify correctional employees, incarcerated individuals, visitors, victims, or family members.
Aggregated patterns are emphasized over presenting a single submission as verified fact.
The platform first helps people understand processes, requirements, and expectations.
Features, data, and public content are designed to avoid exposing sensitive operational information or creating risk.
People who have interacted with the correctional system possess important knowledge worth preserving responsibly.
Identify opportunities for clearer communication, better procedures, and more effective reentry support.
Its purpose is not outrage. Its purpose is clarity, dignity, accountability, and a more navigable path forward.
CLM8 — Understand the system. Prepare for the experience. Find the path forward.