When you think of entrepreneurship in prison, you probably think trading cigarettes for pinups or jello for protection money. A new program called The→
Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department→
Have you been to prison? I hope that you did your time quietly, and made your changed your ways. Do you not know what→
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic→
A recent prison inmate from Georgia has turned his time in the slammer into an entrepreneurial education. His new business: making women’s purses from→
The Wall Street Journal: When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once→
io9: Brazil’s Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison has found a new source of alternative energy: its own prisoners. The prison has offered to shave→
The Last Mile: Could the next Mark Zuckerberg be sitting in a California prison? The participants of a pioneering initiative at San Quentin correctional→
Larry Keast had every reason to be proud of himself. He had managed to bootstrap his business from something in his garage into a→
California Web impostors beware: You may soon be breaking the law, even if you aren’t one of the perpetrators targeted by the state’s “e-personation”→
How many of us can truly say we found our life’s calling? Sewing found Johnny Wimberly as a teenager, long before he found this→
Wallet Pop: Calling it “murder on your taste buds” and “lethal,” jail inmates in Florida are making and selling jailhouse fire hot sauce to→
Los Angeles Times: Larry Levine is hard at work in a sketchy apartment complex in Canoga Park, a noisy and joyless place with an→