Stimulating education & innovation.

Education

The cycle of incarceration inflicts enormous financial, social & emotional costs on victims, families and communities. Every dollar that must be spent on corrections is a dollar that is no longer available for education. The good news is that many are beginning to realize our mistake, as a society. Entrepreneurship is a viable alternative to traditional employment opportunities for those reentering society from prison or jail.

Innovation

If people returning home from prison pursued entrepreneurship, it would undoubtedly make a significant impact on innovation. If between one and seven percent of people leaving state or federal prison next year started their own businesses (i.e., the percentage of welfare-to-work participants who start businesses in addition to or instead of securing traditional employment), 6,500 to 45,000 new businesses would be created in the U.S.