Harry Holcomb says prison helped put him where he is today. The 37-year-old was once going nowhere fast, a self-professed “punk-ass kid.” Today, Holcomb is ensconced as a commercial real ...

Prison inmate Nicholas Paz, center, dances down a a line of his classmates in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, or PEP, right, and program sponsors, in Cleveland, Texas. The rigorous program ...

A short while into a 30-month sentence for buying a stolen trailer, James Cornish received a peculiar postcard in his Plainview prison cell. It was from a group called the Prison Entrepreneurship ...

CLEVELAND, Texas | Standing in a prison chow hall, Richard Chavez Jr. outlines his past: violent felon, former gang member, the fourth member of his family to go to prison. Then his future: owner of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Madeira Cofield covers small business, entrepreneurship, and economic policy. Entrepreneurship lowers recidivism and ...