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Between December 29 and December 31, 2025, I focused on tightening the experience and credibility of Prison Professors' public website while strengthening its live connection to the Profiles platform. The bigger goal during this window was making the ecosystem feel like one cohesive platform that supports self-advocacy and builds trust with key stakeholders—especially corrections partners as we work toward BOP tablet placement.
The priority on 12/29 was translating feedback into clearer pathways and stronger trust signals—especially around impact and transparency—while also flagging data-quality issues that can undermine credibility. The facilities experience and how participation is represented are good examples of where this matters.
I focused on making the user journey feel more deliberate: clearer calls-to-action, fewer dead ends, and more consistent framing around "do the work, show the proof."
On 12/30, I shipped a series of usability and presentation improvements to make content easier to consume and keep the look-and-feel consistent:
Blog post images were constrained to a readable size
Embedded videos were elevated into a more intentional hero presentation
Inline video embeds in article bodies were reduced so they don't overpower the narrative
In parallel, I modernized key conversion surfaces by aligning forms and layouts to newer design system patterns, including changes that repositioned the contact flow into a newsletter-style signup experience where appropriate.
I also tightened navigation pathways so policy content behaves like a true category experience. For example, buttons that route to the blog now deep-link into a pre-filtered policy view rather than forcing users to re-find the right category.
A major win across these two days was getting the marketing site to surface real, fresh community writing by integrating "Latest Profile Entries" directly from the Profiles platform. This required:
Adding a new public API endpoint on the Profiles side
Deploying the backend so the endpoint is live
Iterating on link behavior so entries route to the correct public profile URLs instead of triggering sign-in flows
Along the way, I improved public-facing storytelling pages—most notably by restructuring the testimonials experience into the same two-column hero layout used elsewhere so it feels like part of a unified design system. I also prepared the next step: enabling a submission workflow that collects new testimonials for review and moderation.
Finally, I made several production-hardening and compliance-oriented updates (including cookie consent tooling) and continued documenting progress publicly so stakeholders can track what's changing and why.
The result of this sprint is a faster, cleaner, more consistent site that better communicates "do the work, show the proof"—while connecting visitors to the living evidence of preparation happening every day across the Profiles platform.
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