The Empowerment Mall is pleased to introduce “Think Outside the Cell: An Entrepreneur’s Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated.”  This book shows you how to break the cycle of recidivism, take the grind to the next level and make it happen!

This empowering step-by-step guide provides the kind of entrepreneurial tools that can transform lives. Written in an easy-to-understand style, it is packed with straightforward information on a range of topics, including how to get others to embrace your ideas and help launch your business, how to legally avoid taxes, how to establish good credit and the steps to take to remove occupational restrictions that many states place on convicted felons.

“Think Outside the Cell” has already won high praise, including from John C. Whitehead, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs; Steve Mariotti, founder of the acclaimed National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship; Wahida Clark, best-selling urban fiction author; Nicole Lindahl, assistant director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York; Catherine F. Rohr, founder of the nationally respected Prison Entrepreneurship Program, and Julio Medina, founder of Exodus Transitional Community, whose work with the formerly incarcerated has been recognized by the White House.

“Think Outside the Cell” is being published amid renewed efforts to help the formerly incarcerated—who are disproportionately black and Latino—successfully reenter society. But the reentry programs being developed focus on finding jobs in a nation where, according to a Princeton University study, it is easier for a white person with a felony conviction to get a job than for a black person who has never been arrested.

“Think Outside the Cell” presents a largely unexplored option that can help give men and women leaving prison a realistic second chance. With this important book as their guide, they can rebuild their lives on their own terms.