In-prison and post-release tools to succeed

The Prison Entrepreneurship Program seeks to reduce recidivism and increase economic opportunity for incarcerated individuals through entrepreneurship training and re-entry services. Our program seamlessly supports participants on both sides of the prison fence.

PEP unites and engages the various aspects of participants’ lives to create a community of accountability. At PEP, we have helped over 3,500 graduates since 2004 transform their lives, create new businesses, and start their re-entry process with the right foot forward.

Our Leadership Program

The LACC is the starting point for the new men that we recruit into PEP. We invite over 6,000 men across 80 TDCJ units annually to take an introspective look at their lives through a multi-module correspondence course.

Leadership Training and Business Plan Competition

Program eligible participants who successfully complete the LACC will then begin a 4-month in-prison “mini-MBA” program at either the Oliver J. Bell or Sanders Estes Unit.

Transitional Services

We guide participants through the re-entry process in a structured environment of accountability, providing them with transitional housing, transportation, a support network, and much more. 

Entrepreneurship

The eSchool (Entrepreneurship School) is an educational program which provides released participants (former inmates) a continuing business education to help ease their re-entry process. 

Our Leadership
Program

The LACC is the starting point for the new men that we recruit into PEP. We invite over 6,000 men across 80 TDCJ units annually to take an introspective look at their lives through a multi-module correspondence course.

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Leadership Training and
Business Plan Competition

Program eligible participants who successfully complete the LACC will then begin a 4-month in-prison “mini-MBA” program at either the Oliver J. Bell or Sanders Estes Unit.

Learn More
Transitional
Services

We guide participants through the re-entry process in a structured environment of accountability, providing them with transitional housing, transportation, a support network, and much more.

Learn More
Entrepreneurship

The eSchool (Entrepreneurship School) is an educational program which provides released participants (former inmates) a continuing business education to help ease their re-entry process.

Learn More

Our eSchool Program

eSchool (Entrepreneurship School) 101 is an educational program which provides released participants (former inmates) a continuing business education to help ease their re-entry process.

The eSchool 101 Topics

Leadership

Communication

Leadership

Personal
finance

Strategic
thinking

Time
management

eSchool (Entrepreneurship School) 201 is an optional opportunity for participants who are interested in starting and developing their businesses.

The eSchool 101 Topics

Business Strategy
Mentorship and Coaching
Accounting and bookkeeping
Business Marketing

eSchool Facts

Class Schedules

  • Day: Tuesday

  • Place: Houston PEP Office
  • Time: 7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M

  • Place: Dallas PEP Office
  • Time: 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

Class Agenda

  • Before class starts, the men will gather for an informal dinner.
  • Class begins with a prayer.
  • Introduction of the instructor and topic by the PEP class facilitator.
  • Class begins.

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