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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: From Convict To CEO — Turning Inmates Into Business Entrepreneurs
Description:
Many U.S. prisons are trade schools for crime. High recidivism rates underscore the failure of the current criminal justice system.
Released and rearrested inmates pass through an expensive revolving door.Â
The Texas prison used to be called the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), but there was little evidence that it corrected bad behavior.Â
In Texas, nearly one-fourth of the prisoners released return within three years. Nationally, half of the prisoners released return within three years.
However, the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), an independent nonprofit organization in Texas, puts inmates within on...