Testimonials
"PEN Products has basically made me a new person, now I feel that when I leave I can basically go out in the street and I have skills."
"So they sent me like this itemized tax list thing and it said like 1987 and it had my little taxes I paid and there was a big 1988, 1989, 1990 and it went all the way up to last year 2000, right, so there was a big gap and then it was kind of like wow it was your life on paper and as far as IRS is concerned it’s like you fell off the face of the planet for the last 15 years or whatever. But last year when I got my tax check back, it was like pretty cool. I feel like I’m fitting in. I feel like I’m actually part of something versus just being in prison and being held accountable for the crimes that I committed."
"I know if it wasn't for my incarceration, my life would have continued on the course that I was living and I really, truly believe that it was some type of divine intervention that wouldn’t let me perish without me seeing this part of life and PEN Products has been a very big help toward that growth and development in my life."
“I don't care if it's scrubbing floors; I don't care what it is, please give me a job; give me a chance work. ...this is not just an opportunity to be making money, but it's an opportunity for something to happen in this head and for guys to look at themselves and say by golly if I can do this here, surely I can do this out there."
"The skills a person in the position that they offered me to learn are priceless, there is no other place for me to learn it, I can mop a floor and I can cook enough to feed an institution, but I'm talking about skills that I can go out there and really work and make a difference and put back in society what I haven't had a chance to do in almost 20 years."
