Harry Holcomb says prison helped put him where he is today. The 37-year-old was once going nowhere fast, a self-professed “punk-ass kid.” Today, Holcomb is ensconced as a commercial real ...

A short while into a 30-month sentence for buying a stolen trailer, James Cornish received a peculiar postcard in his Plainview prison cell. It was from a group called the Prison Entrepreneurship ...

Prison inmate Nicholas Paz, center, dances down a a line of his classmates in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, or PEP, right, and program sponsors, in Cleveland, Texas. The rigorous program ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Madeira Cofield covers small business, entrepreneurship, and economic policy. Entrepreneurship lowers recidivism and ...

LegalZoom.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: LZ), a leading online platform for legal services, today announced the renewal of its partnership with Defy Ventures, a leading nonprofit empowering currently and formerly ...

CLEVELAND, Texas | Standing in a prison chow hall, Richard Chavez Jr. outlines his past: violent felon, former gang member, the fourth member of his family to go to prison. Then his future: owner of a ...