Amy Barch 
Our customers mean the world to us. After all, it’s your orders that make it possible for us to fulfill our social mission of keeping men from returning to prison!
So when we hear our customers say they need a change, we listen! Introducing DECO, a new way for you to request quotes and submit orders to the Turn90 Print Shop.
They call him “Unk,” a kind-faced man in his 50s who is quick with a smile and has an easy rapport with the men working alongside him. But it wasn’t always that way—something Unk knows well. In September, Unk was released from prison after 25 years behind bars. At first he was happy about the … Read more
If you’re like us, you love a good tie-dye t-shirt, especially in the springtime, when bright colors are most in style.
And if you’re like us, you also hate the way so many tie-dye t-shirts are heavy cotton and are scratchy against your skin.
New Tie-Dye T-Shirt
Good news! Our friends at Alternative have just released a brand new “go-to t-shirt” in four tie-dye colors (blue, gold, grey, and pink), and we’re excited to share it with you, our favorite customers
Are you a podcast addict?
Great news! We have two opportunities to listen to members of the Turn90 team on podcasts you may already know and love!
Our country continues incarcerating people at higher rates than any other country in the world. In a typical year, approximately 600,000 people enter prison, while people go to jail at least 10,000,000 times. If you loaded all those people on a bus, you’d have full busses parked end-to-end from New York City to San Francisco.
Are you in the business of creating marketing materials for cool local organizations?
Do you want to be able to offer t-shirts and totes but don’t know how?
We’ve got an answer for you!
With Turn90 contract pricing, you can get amazing custom-printed, branded merch for your clients at a fraction of the cost.
At Turn90, we make every effort to make our ordering process as smooth and transparent as possible. To that end, we recently sat down with Maura Langston, our Business Development Manager, to learn a bit more about how orders move through our system, and how we’re working to meet every customer’s needs
They decided to offer the Association fourteen (14!!!) different items. From polos to windbreakers, beanies to baseball caps, this is by far the most products any Turn90 client has sold in a single campaign. Each garment will have the FPPOA logo hand-printed by a man out of prison who is working to change his life.
If I had one thing to teach those camp directors after a year of working here at Turn90, it would be this:
When ordering t-shirts, the fabric is everything.
Here’s a basic rundown of what fabrics work for what purpose, and why 100% cotton isn’t *always* the fabric of our lives.
Men coming home from prison face a unique set of challenges. Many of those barriers – clothes, food, bus passes – can be addressed by reentry programs that focus on emergency needs. Other barriers are more complex, like navigating the DMV to get a driver’s license or finding a new job but are visible and well-documented.
However, some of the most complicated reentry issues are less often discussed. Many are emotionally fraught and none are easy to solve. Any one of these six hidden barriers can cause someone to say “F*** it” and return to street life.