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Praise for PEP

There's a nice column in the Houston Chronicle about a visit by a group of businesspeople to Catherine Rohr's much acclaimed Prison Entrepreneurship Program ("What can we learn from prisoners?," June 7), which apparently made quite an impression:In five years, 440 prisoners have graduated from the four-month Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP). The majority have landed good, honest jobs within the first month of release. Fifty-eight have started their own business, ranging from landscaping to software development. PEP´s volunteers number more than 450 MBA students and more than 1,000 business executives. ...While first-time volunteers may have entered with an ?It?ll feel good to help these less fortunate souls? attitude, we were all shocked to be learning from them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).