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.
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.
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.
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.
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 eSchool Program
The eSchool 101 Topics
Leadership
Communication
Leadership
Personal
finance
Strategic
thinking
Time
management
The eSchool 101 Topics
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.