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Texas prisoner entrepreneurs, pioneering program, garner international attention for economic success and low recidivism outcomes

By Gritsforbreakfast

Thanks to the reader who forwarded this article from The Economist ("A new deal: Rehabilitating prisoners," March 19) profiling Texas' nonprofit Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP). The article focuses on PEP graduate Sam Amaya, a repeat offender who committed a series of gun offenses beginning at age six (!), but who will soon:graduate from the Prison Entrepreneurship Programme (PEP), a remarkable effort to prepare some of Texas's harder cases for their transition back to freedom. The programme was founded in 2004 by Catherine Rohr, a venture capitalist who changed careers after visiting several Texas prisons. Her premise is that many criminals are intelligent people with good heads for business and healthy appetites for risk, and that these traits can be put to productive use...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).