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Christian activist encouraging re-entry success through Prison Entrepreneurship Program

My brother, who is a Baptist pastor in Shreveport, emailed over the weekend to tell me how impressed he was with Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) founder Catherine Rohr, whom he'd heard speaking at a Christian leadership conference in Illinois. The Texas-based nonprofit trains convicts to become entrepreneurs when they re-enter the free world, posting astonishingly positive success rates. So I was pleased to see the Christian Post providing coverage of her talk ("From Wall Street to Prison," Aug. 10):?When I got to the prison, I saw human beings,? Rohr said during an interview broadcasted at The Leadership Summit in South Barrington, Ill., on Friday. ?I was so inspired by their potential.? After seeing what was going on there, Rohr began flying back and forth between New York and Texas to teach business classes at the prison, but she realized it wasn?t enough...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).