Financial Literacy Is Freedom: Why We Teach It Behind Bars

Prison Entrepreneurship Program graduate receives certificate during a PEP graduation ceremony focused on restoring families and second chances

Money Mistakes Don’t Stop at the Gates For many PEP participants, financial missteps played a role in the path to incarceration, whether through survival choices, lack of opportunity, or cycles of poverty. If those habits aren’t addressed, they often repeat after release. That’s why PEP doesn’t just teach business. It teaches life money. What Financial […]